Yearly Archives: 2014

Iannis Xenakis (Braila 1922 – Paris, 2001) is among the most important figures of twentieth-century music; was born in Romania to Greek parents and with them at age 10 he returned to Greece where he remained until the second half of the forties. Xenakis took an active part in the […]

Photostory #3: Iannis Xenakis

August 25, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Iannis Xenakis / Photostory / UPIC by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on November 22, 2017)

The UPIC is a computerized system designed and implemented in the mid-seventies by Iannis Xenakis. It is a very particular and innovative instrument, where the musical composition occurred by means of a graphical approach that replaced the traditional music notation. It was conceived and designed by Iannis Xenakis, as a […]

UPIC

August 25, 2014 in TOPICS tagged Iannis Xenakis / Les Ateliers Upic / UPIC by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on July 3, 2018)

Les Ateliers UPIC is the name CEMAMu founded in 1985 in Paris by Iannis Xenakis and the French composer Maurice Fleuret and Iannis Xenakis, who was also a composer. Formally, was born as an association which had the task of promoting the knowledge and use of the UPIC system.

Les Ateliers Upic

August 25, 2014 in TOPICS tagged CCMIX / Iannis Xenakis / Les Ateliers Upic / UPIC by Alex Di Nunzio

The Centre d’Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales, more simply known by the abbreviation CEMAMu, is a computer music research center founded by Iannis Xenakis in collaboration with academics from several disciplines very different, as aesthetics, mathematics, computer science, but also philosophy and electrical engineering.

Centre d’Études de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales

August 25, 2014 in TOPICS tagged CEMAMu / Iannis Xenakis / Les Ateliers Upic / UPIC by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on May 13, 2018)

The Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis is simply the latest expression of the research in the field of computer music promoted by Iannis Xenakis during a period of forty years. In fact, it is not easy to reconstruct the path of the foundation and creation of informal groups, institutions […]

Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis

August 25, 2014 in TOPICS tagged Iannis Xenakis / Iannix / Les Ateliers Upic / UPIC by Alex Di Nunzio

The EMAMu is the acronym for an informal group founded by Iannis Xenakis in 1966, whose purpose was to promote research and experimentation around the computer music. In truth, the concept of foundation is rather appropriate since the EMAMu never had an institutional consistency, a physical location, but remained within […]

Equipe de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales

August 25, 2014 in TOPICS tagged CEMAMu / Iannis Xenakis by Alex Di Nunzio

Title: Music From Mathematics Authors: Vari Production: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. Year: 1960 Tracks: 11 Format: Lp 33 Duration: 00:21.54 Before going into the details of this recording, it is good to clarify a precise point: in circulation there are two collections that have the title Music From Mathematics: the first, dated […]

AA. VV. – Music From Mathematics

August 6, 2014 in LISTEN tagged Bell Labs / Computer Music History by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on September 12, 2014)

Today Pure Data is a visual programming language, which allows you to develop software for music composition, or simply a language for making music, free and open source. But, from a historical point of view the question it’s bit more complex. With this post I’m trying to trace the development […]

Pure Data

July 26, 2014 in TOPICS tagged Free Software / Max/Msp / Miller Puckette / Open Source / Pure Data by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 19, 2018)

Giada is a free, open source audio software, oriented to the use of loops and sound samples, to manage thanks to the support of MIDI controller, both software and hardware.

Giada, your free loop machine

July 18, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Drum Machine / Free Software / Loop / Open Source by Alex Di Nunzio

Title: Computer Music Retrospective Composer: Lejaren Hiller Label: Wergo Year: 1986 Tracks: 10 Duration: 0:55.23 This collection of music composed by Hiller Lejaren through a computer, was published after the presentation which he presided in Japan on behalf of the United States Information Agency at the Universal Exposition in Tsukuba, […]

Lejaren Hiller – Computer Music Retrospective

July 16, 2014 in LISTEN tagged Illiac Suite / Lejaren Hiller by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on July 28, 2014)

Title: Experimental Music: Composition With an Electronic Computer Authors: Lejaren Hiller, Leonard Isaacson Publisher: McGraw-Hill Year: 1959 Pages: 214 In 1956 Lejaren Hiller, a composer born chemist, suggested that a computer, properly programmed, it could be used as a support tool for composing music.

Lejaren Hiller, Leonard Isaacson – Experimental Music: Composition With an ...

July 8, 2014 in READ tagged Experimental Music / Illiac Suite / Lejaren Hiller by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on July 8, 2014)

A nice little game, but also an interesting application developed in openFrameworks by Eric Rosenbaum, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab: MmmTsss is a free software, available for Mac and Windows.

Create your loops, for free.

June 16, 2014 in RESOURCES tagged Free Software / Loop by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 28, 2014)