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The
latest issue of the SEAMUS Newsletter is now ready for
download.
As
we look forward to the first term of our newly elected SEAMUS
President, Kris Burns, we also look back and thank our outgoing
President, Russell Pinkston for all of the work he’s done in past
years on behalf of our organization. As we reminisce about
SEAMUS 2008 and thank Miguel Chauqui and his excellent team for
an outstanding conference in Salt Lake City, we also anticipate an
exciting SEAMUS 2009 hosted by Sweetwater at the Sweetwater Campus
in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Michael Rhoades, our Indiana host, gives
us a little preview.
Also included: a special interview with 2008 SEAMUS Award
Recipient, Miller Puckette. He shares many of his ideas and
catches us up to his current work as he encourages young computer
musicians to aim high and be unafraid to invest themselves in the
new. Following up on that topic, we include an interview with a
young developer, Camille Troillard, who has been working on a new
version of his OSCulator program, a controller hub that receives
input from human interface devices like the Lemur and the WiiMote
which outputs OSC and midi data to programs like Kyma, Max/MSP, or
Live. Explorers of the WiiMote have found his utility to be very
useful as they map data from that device into their favorite
programs. Finally, we end with member news and announcements.
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The SEAMUS 2008 National Conference was held at the
University of Utah, April 3rd - 5th, 2008 and was a wonderful
experience. Many thanks and congratulations to
Miguel Chuaqui, and his entire
staff for a fantastic SEAMUS experience.
For those of you who could not
attend the conference and for those of you who would like to
re-experience portions of it, here are a few of the highlights.
Lifetime Achievement Honoree
Miller Puckett
Conference Program
2008 ASCAP / SEAMUS Student
Commission Award Recipients
On behalf of ASCAP and the entire SEAMUS membership , the Board of
Directors would like to recognize and congratulate our 2008
ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Award recipients.
- 1st Prize - John Lato - Les Reactions de la Terra
Abandonee
- 2nd Prize - Jason Bolte - Change in the Summation
- Mention - Greg Cornelius - Earth and Green
- Mention - Peter Lane - Taqsim
The Allen Strange Undergraduate Prize went to:
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Ben Dorfan and Amy Hanson - Contrathemis (video)
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2008 National Conference Sponsors
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SEAMUS would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support
of Genelec
and Sweetwater
Music Technology for sponsoring the 2006 SEAMUS National Conference:
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Hosting a National Conference
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The annual SEAMUS National Conference is the cornerstone of the
organization's yearly schedule. If you and your institution are
interested in hosting one of these prestigious events,
download the
SEAMUS National Handbook for guidelines.
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Miller Puckette |
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Miller Puckette obtained a B.S.
in Mathematics from MIT (1980) and Ph. D. in
Mathematics from Harvard (1986). He was a
member of MIT's
Media Lab from its inception until 1987,
and then a researcher at
IRCAM (l'Institut de Recherche et de
Coordination Musique/Acoustique, founded by
composer and conductor Pierre Boulez). There
he wrote the Max program for MacIntosh
computers, which was first distributed
commercially by Opcode Systems in 1990 and is
now available from
Cycling74.com . In 1989 Puckette joined
IRCAM's "musical workstation" team and put
together an enhanced version of Max, called
Max/FTS, for the ISPW system, which was
commercialized by Ariel, Inc. This system
became a widely used platform in computer
music research and production facilities. The
IRCAM real-time development team has since
reimplemented and extended this software under
the name jMax, which is distributed free with
source code.
Puckette joined the Music
department of the University of California,
San Diego in 1994, and is now Associate
Director of the
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
(CRCA). He is currently working on a new
real-time software system for live musical and
multimedia performances called
Pure Data ("Pd"), in collaboration with
many other artists/researchers/programmers
worldwide. Pd is free and runs on Linux,
Macintosh, and Windows systems. In 1997
Puckette joined the Global Visual Music
project. Since 2004 he has performed with the
Convolution Brothers.
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Every year, the Board of Directors selects the recipient of the SEAMUS
Award, in recognition of lifetime achievement and contribution to
the art and craft of
electro-acoustic music. The award is presented at the SEAMUS National
Conference.
The previous award winners are listed below. Click on the recipient
names for a bio:
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SEAMUS in the MIX
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The SEAMUS 20th anniversary was recently recognized in the May edition
of Mix Magazine. For anyone who may have missed it in print, the article
is still featured on MIXonline: go
here
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Music From SEAMUS, Vol 13
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The 13th edition in the Music From SEAMUS CD series has been released.
Taken from works presented at the 2003 National Conference at ASU,
this compilation includes Mark Applebaum, John Appleton, Larry Austin,
Benjamin Broening, Konstantinos Karathanasis, Elainie Lillios, James
Mobberley, Noel Paul and Russell Pinkston.
click here to order.
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Get Involved
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The contents of SEAMUSONLINE is open to its membership. Your contributions
are welcomed and encouraged. If you have an event, a news item,
link or anything else you would like considered, contact the webmaster
here. The contents of your
proposed addition should be sent within the body of your email.
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SEAMUS Member Releases |
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Christopher Bailey -
Music for Piano and Electronics
Amazon
Alex Shapiro - Notes from the Kelp
Alex Shapiro
Mark Zaki - Everything We Say is Deformed
CDbaby
Paul Rudy -
In lake'ch
iTunes
Lydia Ayers - Virtual Gamelan
Albany Records
Timothy Polashek - Wood and Wire
Albany Records
Eric Lyon • Ex Cathedra
Centaur
Scott Smallwood •
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening
David Ozab •
Tempo Ficta
Cdbaby
Michael Rhoades • Anaphasics
Perception Factory
SEAMUS Members
Send info on your CD releases
here
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Comments?
Questions? Contact?
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email the
President, Russell Pinkston
email the VP
of Membership, Mark Zaki
email the
Webmaster, Michael Rhoades
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