RE: [microsound] (PRESS RELEASE) new issue of Computer Music Jour nal

[Philip Sherburne <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds amazing - can't wait to pick up a copy.
And - no offense at all to Kim - I dream of a future in which DJ Spooky no
longer has to be invoked in the first line of the press release as the only
recognizable/saleable name...


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> Subject: [microsound] (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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