Here is the concert order for Monday and Wednesday this week.

NOTE: because of problems on one of my studio laptops, We will be using the computers from B25C and B25D in our performances (I will move them over at around 2pm). Since we will be alternating back and forth between the two systems during the performance (while one person is performing, the other can be setting up), I have assigned, below, which machine you will perform from (B25C = C; B25D = D). It shouldn't make much difference practically, but if you want to visit the machine for your performance tomorrow in advance of class, either to dump your project or test, you have that option. Let me know immediately if you have a conflict with this.

If you will be using your own computer (two have let me know this), there will be a separate audio connection available for this purpose.

Performance I (Monday):

Lai, Benjamin C

DeCorato, John D 

Hachey, Adam C

Huang, Jeffrey D

Asiama, Obiora  C

Moon, Seok Min D

Nilsson-Cole, Daniel C

Performance II (Wednesday):

Hwang, Paul C

Rego, Erik D

Nason, Robyn C

Lee, Jae Dong D

Cheng, Chelsea C

Hendler, Douglas D

Lai, Miasarah C

Choi, Hojin D

1. Ableton Live and dummy clips:

"Dummy clips, four different methods"

--> Part I

--> Part II

"Dummy clips tutorial"

--> Tech Tips

"MIDI dummy clips over the IAC bus"

--> MIDI clips over IAC

2. Subversion tools, three audio applications (Auto DJ, Scrambed Hacks, and Soundspotter)

--> AutoDJ by Ross Anderson

--> Scrambled Hacks and his Sydney Performance

--> Soundspotter application by Michael Casey

3. Copyright and the Creative Commons

--> Lawrence Lessig's TED presentation (your required viewing!)

Have a great holiday break!!

Composer/improvisor Tim Hodgkinson will be visiting our class on Tuesday morning.  This concert the evening before will provide some context for that presentation and discussion.

Monday, October 3, 2011 at 8:00PM
Barnes Hall, Cornell University
FREE

Tim Hodgkinson (clarinets & saxophones)
Chris Cochrane (guitar & electronics)
Miguel Frasconi (glass objects)

Composer/multi-instrumentalists Tim Hodgkinson, Miguel Frasconi, and Chris Cochrane come to Cornell University's Barnes Hall for their first performance in this formation. Their diverse investigations range from various folk forms to jazz, rock, and contemporary classical writing, but their lingua franca is improvisation. In this concert, their sudden sounds will include driving rhythms, melodic disconnections, delicate conversations, and possibly ear-splitting volume. Dissonances are likely in this balancing act of what is possible in composition and improvisation.

Born in 1949, graduate in social anthropology at Cambridge, co-founder of the politically and musically radical group Henry Cow in 1968, TIM HODGKINSON has followed a restless and critical creative path. To composition he brings a long and unique experience in musical improvisation and ethnomusicology, forging artistic connections with folk and indigenous musicians around the world, as well as long-standing association with the Romanian spectral composers Iancu Dumtrescu and Anna-Maria Avram. As an improviser, he has performed and recorded with the most acclaimed artists in the field.

CHRIS COCHRANE is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, improviser, and producer. He co-founded the band No Safety with Zeena Parkins and also played in Curlew. He has worked with Eszter Balint, Tom Cora, John Zorn, Dennis Cooper, Kramer, Tim Hodgkinson, T Bone Burnett, Bob Ostertag, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Ikue Mori, Annie Gosfield, Marc Ribot, Kato Hideki, Jim Pugliese, and many more. He also created the music for Ishmael Houston-Jones' notorious theatre/dance work THEM (1985). "Cochrane is known to weave knives and old guitar strings through his frets to create new dissonances, yet his voice is strong," says OPTION Magazine.

MIGUEL FRASCONI is a composer and improviser who uses electronics, laptop, and an instrumentarium of glass objects to create music from a uniquely imagined tradition. His glass instruments are struck, blown, stroked, smashed, and otherwise coaxed into vibration. They have been called "a beautiful menagerie of pealing contraptions" by Time Out NY. He has worked closely with composers John Cage, James Tenney, David Behrman, and Morton Subotnick. His wide array of activities also include collaborations with the Balinese composer Dewa Berata on music for a large-scale shadowplay, with operatic tenor John Dykers on unique music/theatre events, and with the Tibetan songwriter Techung, with whom he has toured throughout India. He is currently a visiting professor at the Bard College Electronic Music Studios and director of the Bard Laptop Orchestra.

Questions? Contact Loralyn Light, Dept. of Music Events Manager, Cornell University, LL48@cornell.edu or 607-255-4760

I wanted to make you all aware of an opportunity on campus, particularly those unable to take Music 1421 but others who might be interested.  New faculty member and pianist Annie Lewandowski will be offering lessons in free improvisation.  Her description of the semester is as follows.

"We'll be working on different approaches to improvising by exploring the timbral range of the piano, amplification, extended techniques, etc, with the final project being a soundtrack they improvise to a short film (this will be either recorded or performed). I'm very open to working with beginning pianists."

Please email Annie Lewandowski: apl72 at cornell.edu

I am including her bio below

Annie Lewandowski is a composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist whose work has situated her between the worlds of improvisation and independent rock music. As an improviser on the piano and accordion, she has recorded with Doublends Vert, the London Improvisers Orchestra, Caroline Kraabel, and Fred Frith, and performed with improvisers including Sylvia Hallett, Robert Stillman, Jennifer Pike, John Edwards, John Butcher, Chris Cutler, Charles Hayward, and Evan Parker. As a singer, guitarist, and keyboardist, she has recorded with rock bands Emma Zunz, Xiu Xiu, The Curtains, and Hawnay Troof. Her band powerdove has released three recordings: Live at the Maybeck House, a self-titled EP (Circle into Square, 2011), and Be Mine (Circle into Square, 2011). Lewandowski has performed at festivals and venues across the United States and Europe, including the Casa da Música  (Porto, Portugal), the Hippodrome (London), Musica Nelle Valli (San Martin Spino, Italy), the Great American Music Hall (San Francisco), the Frieze Arts Fair (London), and Avalon (Los Angeles).

She received her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from the College of St. Catherine, and her Master of Fine Arts in Music Performance and Literature with a Specialization in Improvisation from Mills College. At Mills, she was awarded the Flora Boyd Piano Performance prize for her work on extended techniques for the piano.

Prior to her arrival at Cornell in 2011, Lewandowski facilitated improvisation workshops in the United States and England, lectured in music theory at Mills College, and taught private piano lessons.

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Hey All,

If anyone has used FL Studio before, there's an open source version called Linux MultiMedia Studio. It used to only be compiled for Unix based systems, but it's now apparently available for 32 and 64 bit Windows machines as well. It's pretty easy to use and looks exactly like FL Studio, but without the huge pricetag. Enjoy!

http://lmms.sourceforge.net/home.php

-Bill