Interactive Music
Here’s what happens when I challenge 15 Performing Arts Technology students to play Techno.
Sorry Kraftwerk. Oh yes they did.
Silver Apples of the Moon, tune by Isaac Levine. Arranged and performed by Electronic Chamber Music at the University of Michigan in the Chip Davis Technology Studio.
I’m co-leading the New Music Controllers workshop at CCRMA from June 27 to July 1, 2016, with Sasha Leitman.
We are pleased to offer a full tuition scholarship to support the inclusion of women in computer music. Info is here:
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/women-in-computer-music-new-music-controllers-workshop-scholarship
Perhaps the icing on the cake of our Electronic Chamber Music show Techno In Space in our magical new Chip Davis Technology Studio was the fact that Chip Davis himself came to both of our shows! It was a pleasure and honor to get to know such a wonderful man and brilliant mind. And he gave us a shout-out on the Mannheim Steamroller website: http://www.mannheimsteamroller.com/leading_edge_music_technology/!
In just 6 months, the Davis Technology Studio has already had profound impact on what we do, with a 16.2 channel (soon to become 32.2) immersive speaker with flexible networked audio with Dante and Rednet. Thanks Chip!
Thanks to a donation from Intel, my Interactive Media Design II class is about to receive 5 Intel Galileo boards! Commence hacking…
I have 2 class blogs for my Winter 2014 classes:
Electronic Chamber Music: http://electronicchambermusic.blogspot.com/
Interactive Media Design II: http://interactivemediadesignblog.blogspot.com/
You may notice some similarities in the look and feel of each…
Check out Shine, by Michael McCrindle, a.k.a. Anagram Norton. The EP was his Performing Arts Technology Senior Thesis project, and as his advisor, I’d like to think I’m the executive producer of sorts.
I’ll be co-teaching a workshop on New Music Controllers with Ed Berdahl at CCRMA, Stanford University from August 12-16. Places are still available!
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/workshops/new-music-controllers
On October 25, 2012 I delivered the opening keynote address at the Diseño+ conference in Cali, Colombia. The conference was the 5th International Meeting of Research in Design, a South American gathering of researchers in diverse areas of design, with a particular emphasis on music technology. My keynote explored the co-evolution of experimental music practice and electronic musical instruments, highlighting his recent research into the development of skill and style with digital musical instruments.
As a part of the Videosónica festival held in conjunction with the Diseño+ conference, I performed in a telematic concert of electroacoustic music on October 26, 2012. The concert featured performers in Cali and at Stanford University in California, joined by Stephen Rush’s Digital Music Ensemble in Ann Arbor. Although separated geographically, the performers were able to play together, supported by experimental technologies to deliver high-quality digital audio at low latency over dedicated research networks. This 3-way telematic concert was a first for Colombia as well as the University of Michigan.
The following night, I closed the festival performing a new realization of John Cage’s Rozart Mix in honor of the composer’s centennial. My gracious host Daniel Gomez took me on an adventure to find junk boomboxes and old cassette tapes to use as material for the performance.
On October 25, 2012 I delivered the opening keynote address at the Diseño+ conference in Cali, Colombia. The conference was the 5th International Meeting of Research in Design, a South American gathering of researchers in diverse areas of design, with a particular emphasis on music technology. My keynote explored the co-evolution of experimental music practice and electronic musical instruments, highlighting his recent research into the development of skill and style with digital musical instruments.
I was interviewed in December by Jill Rodgers from MIT Press Journals as a part of their podcast series to discuss Computer Music, HCI and the recent issue of Computer Music Journal that I guest edited. The podcast page is available here: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/podcasts, or else here is a direct link to the mp3 file: CMJ-Michael-Gurevich.mp3.