One of your colleagues (Music 659), artist/composer Elliot Hess, has an exhibition next week in Tjaden Galley (on the arts quad across from the Johnson Museum). His description is as follows:

"The show consists of paper sculpturesproduced from suspended fabric moulds and collages on paper. The opening will be on Thursday night from 6-9 pm in Tjaden Gallery."

I hope you can make it!

Please join me tomorrow May 3rd in Lincoln B20 at 12:30pm for this year's final Midday Music concert featuring works by Terry Riley and Cornell composers David Weaver, Spencer Topel, Nathan Ward, DAMAGE (Dave And Misha's Audio Generation Ensemble), and myself.  Performers include, among many others, Cornell's own John Haines-Eitzen on cello, guitarist Kenneth Meyer from Syracuse, and even YOU for one of the pieces!

I look forward to seeing you there.

A new book on PD, ideas and descriptions of pieces from the 1st International Pd~Convention in Graz in fall 2004:

bang | book

Grab it, it's free.  There is also a DVD which goes with the book.  It's available in the music library or for download as well.

There are also lots of lecture materials, tutorials, patches, etc, from the event found here:

http://puredata.info/community/projects/convention04/lectures

...lots of interesting stuff, including a fellow running a small radio station with PD!!  One in particular worth reading, which is at a beginning level in its intention is this one by Hans-Christoph Steiner, called "Building Your Own Instrument using PD".  He is the same guy who maintains the PD-extended builds I have been recommending for download.

Building your own instrument using Pd

A note from Professor John Scott, Television-Radio Department, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College:

I am teaching courses with advanced students who are completing substantial video projects this semester.  I am seeking ways to contact interested musicians or sound-designers who may benefit from interacting with my students as they begin to consider working with a composer or sound-designer for their soundtrack.

I have a course reserved for seniors who are doing final projects in a workshop environment.  There are 2 documentaries and 5 fictional narratives being produced.  One documentary is likely to be quite long (20-30 minutes) and has been shooting for over a year now.  One narrative script looks like it will be in the 15-20 minute range. Everything else is in the 5 to 12 minute range.

I also have four documentaries being shot in an advanced documentary class and four fictional narratives being shot in an intermediate fiction class.  Each of these will likely be in the 5 to 12 minute range.

Topics range from dogsledding, a maverick space capsule inventor, sex education in schools on the doc side to a crime scene drama, teen runaway drama and multiple comedies on the fiction side.

All of the projects need to be screened at a big auditorium here on IC campus on either Friday, Saturday or Sunday May 4,5 or 6.

If you are interested in scoring or sound design please contact me (jdscott@ithaca.edu) with some info about your expertise and preferences and I will put the info into the hands of relevant students and then let you all figure it out from there, (no obligation for either side.)

Thursday, February 8, 7:00, Willard Straight Hall

Former Ithaca resident and recipient of a Cornell Council for the Arts Emerging Artist award, Ritsu Katsumata is a classically trained violinist who has been performing since she was ten. She has played acoustic violin in Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Academy of Music, and the Smithsonian Institution. She composed and performed the scores for the two films screening tonight: Yasin (Betty Lee Kim, 13 mins, www.yasinmovie.com), a narrative short about a young boy in California whose Jordanian-born father is arrested and accused of being a terrorist, and Heroes (Lynn Estomin, 22 mins), a documentary short featuring the mother of a fallen soldier and an Iraq War Veteran who is speaking out against the War. Ritsu will talk about her work on these films and then perform a 45 minute set of music. Watch clips of Ritsu on YouTube from a recent show at NYC's Flea Theatre -- the program, curated by Kathleen Supove, included Joshua Fried, performing on old shoe and a steering wheel, as well as Nick Didkovsky composing computer music with audience participation:

Performance on You Tube.

color, 1 hour 30 minutes