1. The Music Business and Technology Program at New York University
Author(s): Robert Rowe
Source: Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, (1992), pp. 115-116
Published by: The MIT Press
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2. Musical Creationquot;. The Momeludies
the tape is used as a second missing
Between Dance and Music
concerts showed that children can cre-
cello, fusing into the present cello's
I found the concert of works by the
ate contemporary music and that they
timbre. The same concert presented
Musical Research Center of Rome
can also speak about what they are do-
another piece byJaffrenou: A German
(CRM) disappointing. For example,
Song.It was classically composed, but ing. It is worth noting, among many
Agostino Di Scipio's creation Kairos,
changed style with the use of synthe- others, the works VentsdesDeserts
for saxophone and tape, appeared to by
sizer, cello, bass clarinet (the timbres Michel Mazzili, Le Compte bonby
est
be a live experiment with every sound
of which blended well), plus a vocalist Jean-PierreDrouet, CanondesArbres
that a saxophone can make, heard by
Steve Waringand Animaux-Limonades
(strong performance by Laure
over a background of waves that
Florentin, soprano). On the other by Marc-OlivierDupin. This event,
could carry screws. Michelangelo Lu-
hand, Estager's La PetitePersonne held in collaboration with the Teach-
In-
pone's Mira, for tape and ballerina,
terieure, work for piano and voice,
a ing Musicians in Primary Schools
seemed to hide its musical poverty
did not manage to take off from tame Training Center (CFMI), invited
with the dancer's movements (or per-
lyrics. Robert Pascal's Gestbrought teachers, children and composers to
haps it was the reverse?). Esercizi
by
one back to intimate cello and ap- exchange thoughts about their experi-
Domenico Guaccero was without real
pealed to the imagination. InJerome ences of contemporary music.
interest for me. Only Laura Bian-
Dorival's and Yann Orlarey's Divin It was a marathon week, punctu-
chini's piece seemed noteworthy: Note
Chaosfor wind quintet, played by the ated by about 15 concerts and includ-
for
Differenze, saxophone and tape,
Concert Impromptu, one could dis- ing the performance of some 50
gave evidence of a wish to make the
cover the will to use chaos as a crea- works. The programming was so eclec-
saxophone and tape converse, in or-
tive principle. tic that I wondered whether there was
der to show their similarities and
anyone who would have attended the
their differences.
The Momeludies entire festival. I hope that next year
At Musiquesen Scene,GRAMEallows
GRAME: Musical Route an even broader public will venture
children and composers to meet for to sample the arrayof new music of-
The same care is present in Pierre-
one day of concerts, followed by a dis- ferings that GRAMEmakes available
Alain Jaffrenou's Celloand TapeSuite,
cussion on the subject quot;Children and through Music en Scene.
a lyrical and majestic work in which
The Music Business and Technology Program
at New YorkUniversity
RobertRowe
New York University's Music Business gram, placing them for a semester other arts in live performance. The
and Technology (MBT) program is with a record company, recording stu- Summer in Italy Program allows stu-
part of its Department of Music and dio or other enterprise in one of the dents to earn credit towards a gradu-
Music Professions. New York Univer- world's most important music-indus- ate degree in Gubbio, Italy, while par-
sity (NYU) is the largest private univer- try centers. Students may earn a ticipating in the annual Gubbio
sity in the United States; its Washing- Bachelor of Music degree in either Festival, a major venue for performers
ton Square campus, which includes Music Business or Music Technology, and composers from around the
the Department of Music, is located or a Master of Music degree in Music world. Interactive computer-music
in the heart of Greenwich Village, Technology. Honors students may composition is taught in Gubbio Festi-
near SoHo, in New York City. As part participate in the new Stephen F. val masterclasses by NYU faculty, al-
of a large and active music depart- Temmer Tonmeister program. The lowing composers to program com-
ment, MBT maintains a close alliance Music Technology program is di- puters to perform with ensembles of
with the Performance and Composi- rected by Kenneth Peacock, a musi- human players onstage.
tion programs, encouraging collabora- cologist, technologist, and expert in At the Washington Square campus,
tions that mix jazz, new music and im- such diverse fields as Scriabin and MBT maintains ten recording and
provisation. Both graduate and synaesthesia, who has led the MBT computer-music studios, including
undergraduate students may partici- program to its current position as a fo- two recording suites, four Macintosh-
pate in a wide-ranging internship pro- cal point for musical activity in the de- based computer-music laboratories,
partment. Associate director is Robert an editing room for Atari-based audio-
Rowe, graduate of the Massachusetts for-video and film music, an analog-
Institute of Technology (MIT) Media synthesis teaching studio, and two re-
Robert Rowe (composer, researcher, editor), New York
University, Dept. of Music, 35 W. Fourth St., Room 777,
Laboratory, who has introduced the search and development facilities,
New York, NY 10003, U.S.A. E-mail:
Interactive Arts Performance Series,
<rower@acf3.NYU.EDU> which use Macintosh, IBM and NeXT
which features biannual concerts unit-
Received 18 March 1992.
computers. Digital audio hardware in-
ing computers, video, music and
Manuscript solicited by Marc Battier. cludes Digital Audio Tape (DAT) re-
Forum 115
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3. corders, several Motorola 56001 plat- School and other NYU programs that languages such as C or Common
forms, including the NeXT, and combine the arts and technology. Lisp, with extensions for MIDI, real-
Digidesign's Sound Accelerator and The Arts & Media Laboratory houses time digital signal processing, and
Audiomedia Board, for which NYU is nine Macintosh Quadra 900 comput- SMPTE handling. Sophisticated syn-
a registered software developer. MBT ers, with Digidesign Audiomedia thesis possibilities may be realized
students also have access to the Arts cards, RasterOps animation and through an extensive collection of
and Media Laboratory, maintained by Quicktime movies, as well as four sampling, processing, and synthesis
NYU's Academic Computing Facili- NeXT workstations. The MBT pro- modules, or through software pack-
ties, the purpose of which is to pro- gram has taken a leading position in ages such as MIT's CSound. The MBT
vide advanced hardware platforms for developing and performing with inter- program has been designed to pro-
computer music, graphics, animation active music software, implemented vide instruction in technology to what-
and multimedia. Here collaborative on personal computers and digital ever depth is necessary for achieving
projects can be realized by students audio platforms. Students can learn its ultimate purpose-making music.
from MBT, the Interactive Telecom- programming using OpCode's Max,
munications Project, the Tisch Film or in environments using computer
116 Music/Science Forum