(PRESS RELEASE) new issue of Computer Music Journal

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PRESS RELEASE

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, February 28, 2001 ? MIT Press announces the
publication of a special issue
of Computer Music Journal  (Volume 24, Number 4) focusing on electronica,
especially music in the
?glitch? or ?noise? style.  The issue includes an audio CD featuring 35
short compositions in this
style, including well-known names such as DJ Spooky.  The artists are:
immedia, Pimmon, Richard
Chartier, Taylor Deupree, eM, noto, Stilluppsteypa, Philus, *0, Andreas
Berthling, Kevin Drumm, Kim
Cascone, Zammuto, Tetsu Inoue, Rehberg & Bauer, cd_slopper, Needle,
Zbigniew Karkowski, Robert
Henke, Terre Thaemlitz, Sun Electric, Coil, Kid606, Sakana Hosomi,
snd/shirt trax, Goem, COH,
ASCIII, Thomas Brinkmann, DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, tun[k], Christophe
Charles, Atau Tanaka,
Cathars, and Autopoeisis.

Three of the issue?s five articles deal with the topic of electronica. Kim
Cascone?s groundbreaking
article ?The Aesthetics of Failure: ?Post-Digital? Tendencies in
Contemporary Computer Music?
analyzes glitch music in the context of earlier aesthetic movements such as
Futurism and the chance
music of John Cage. In  ?Laptop Performers, Compact Disc Designers, and
No-Beat Techno Artists in
Japan: Music from Nowhere,? Emmanuelle Loubet looks at the contemporary
scene in Japan from both a
musical and a sociological perspective.  Joel Chadabe's essay, ?Remarks on
Computer Music Culture,?
examines relationships between elite and popular traditions in music, and
points to interactive
performance software as a tool for the democratization of art.

The issue also includes articles on two other topics: a counterpoint
generator, and a system for
automating computer music performances in ways that tend to evoke various
emotions.  In addition to
the music selected by the curator, the CD contains sound examples to
accompany recent Computer
Journal Articles, such as excerpts of music by Trevor Wishart and Horacio
Vaggione.

The curator for the CD, Kim Cascone, is himself a glitch composer who has
released more than 15
albums of electronic music.  Mr. Cascone studied electronic music at the
Berklee College of Music,
worked with David Lynch in the film industry, founded Silent Records, and
has designed sounds for
the software companies Headspace (now called Beatnik) and Staccato Systems.

Founded in 1976, Computer Music Journal is the leading scholarly journal on
all musical applications
of computer technology.  The journal is published both in print and online.
 (The audio is available
only on CD, not electronically.) To subscribe, or to purchase an individual
issue, visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/CMJ, email journals-orders@xxxxxxx, or call
1(617)253-2889. The Volume 24,
Number 4 issue plus CD costs $30.  Annual subscriptions (print plus online)
for individuals cost
$50.
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