2008 Conference
Lifetime Achievement Honoree

 

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.
 
 

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
 

Music    

(mp3 versions)
Per Bloland Quintet for Saxophone and Electronics
Jason Bolte Change in the Summation
John Gibson Slumber
Michael Rhoades Anaphasics (3rd Movement)

Videos   

(Quicktime versions)
Brett Terry, Adrea Wollensak I open the window
   

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:

 - Ben Dorfan and Amy Hanson - Contrathemis (video)


 

2008 National Conference Sponsors

SEAMUS would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Genelec and Sweetwater Music Technology for sponsoring the 2006 SEAMUS National Conference:



Hosting a National Conference

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.

Miller Puckette

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.

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:

u 1987 Vladimir Ussachevsky
u 1988 Les Paul
u 1989 Mario Davidovsky
u 1990 Otto Luening
u 1991 Robert Moog
u 1993 John Chowning
u 1994 Max Mathews
u 1995 Milton Babbitt
u 1996 Charles Dodge
u 1997 Louis (post.) and Bebe Barron
u 1998 Morton Subotnick
u 1999 Pauline Oliveros
u 2000 Paul Lansky
u 2001 Herbert Brün
u 2002 Don Buchla
u 2003 Jon Appleton
  2004 Barry Vercoe  
  2005 Wendy Carlos  
  2006 Alvin Lucier  
2007 Joel Chadabe

 SEAMUS in the MIX

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

 Music From SEAMUS, Vol 13

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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 SEAMUS Member Releases


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


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