BIO + STATEMENT

UPCOMING EVENTS

PROJECTS

DISCOGRAPHY & MP3s

SELECTED WRITINGS

PAST PERFORMANCES

SOFTWARE

LINKS

NOISY PEOPLE Publishing Project:

• Interview with composer/saxophonist Dan Plonsey (2005)
• Interview with composer/percussionist Gino Robair (2005)
• Interview with composer/saxophonist/electronicist David Slusser (2005)

ESSAYS AND TALKS:

• Birdsong   Some remarks on music and birdsong, written for the Jan 2011 ALKU release of a collection of synthetic birdsong tracks by various composers.


• Some Notes on my Electronic Improvisation Practice   [pdf]   What I've learned, or at least come to believe, from years of improvising with instrumentalists on my electronic instrument. As appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music, 2009, Oxford University Press.


• The League of Automatic Music Composers  [pdf]   History of the first computer network band, 1978-1983. Version of notes appearing with the 2008 New World LAMC CD release.(2008)


• Research   A slightly fictionalized memoir -- the names have been changed to protect the guilty -- about life in the final days of the dotcom bubble.


• A report on a workshop I attended in Abisko, Sweden on Art and Complexity.


• Complexity and Emergence in the Experimental Music Tradition [pdf] a chapter in Art and Complexity, a book of papers from the Abisko workshop referred to above, published by Elsevier SA.


• An article on the Hub, similar to one which appears in Electronic Musician magazine, August 1999.


• Don't Listen a talk given at the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) in November 1997.


• Bringing Digital Music to Life an article that appeared in the Computer Music Journal in Summer 1996.


• The Impact of Computer Technology on the Artistic Process a talk given at the conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy in 1993.