[sdiy] SF Bay Area -- Chowning/Mathews/Roads

[Don Tillman]

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Tuesday, 14 December, 2004, 7pm
"Music Meets The Computer" 
Speakers: John Chowning, Max Mathews and Curtis Roads

http://computerhistory.org/events/

The Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View, California

Computers have revolutionized music-making. Two of the most important
pioneers of computer music, Max Mathews and John Chowning, stand at
the epicenter of this musical revolution. Research led by Mathews at
Bell Laboratories, beginning in the 1950s, created a series of
programming languages that are the direct precursors of today's
software synthesizers. His many contributions to interactive music
systems, algorithmic composition, and psychoacoustics (with
Jean-Claude Risset) are equally seminal. Stanford's legendary Center
for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA, pronounced karma)
led by Chowning, has long been a hotbed of innovation. After
groundbreaking research in sound spatialization, Chowning's invention
of frequency modulation (FM) synthesis led to the most successful
synthesizer of all time: the Yamaha DX7.

Join Chowning and Mathews in conversation with Curtis Roads, composer
and music historian. This will be followed by Chryssie Nanou (pianist)
performing, Duet for One Pianist.

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Of course I'll be going to this. 

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don at till.com
http://www.till.com