April 6-8, 2000
University of Florida

Composer-in-Residence, Barry Truax

James Paul Sain, Director
Javier Alejandro Garavaglia, Associate Director
Christopher Nitti, Assistant Director
John McElroy, Program Coordinator
Tohm Judson, Technical Coordinator
Shamus Jary McConney, Lighting Design
Marc Shahboz, Graphic Design


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In its ninth year, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival has featured an international variety of contemporary electroacoustic art music. Past composers-in-residence have included internationally renowned composers such as Hubert S. Howe, Jr., Cort Lippe, Gary Nelson, Jon Appleton, Joel Chadabe, and Larry Austin.

April 6, 2000

Concert I
Electroacoustic Music from FEMS
Christopher Nitti, curator

Thursday, April 6, 2000, 9:00 a.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

Animal Farm	Thomas Judson
Surgery	Greg Powell
A Window Onto Something Else, Part 3	Experimental Audio Initiative
860	Steven Jon Landis
What It Is to Be Alone	Christopher Nitti
Black	Gabriel Monticello
Humanature	John McElroy

Listening Session
Soundscape Compositions
Barry Truax, curator

Thursday, April 6, 2000, 11:00 a.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

Basilica	Barry Truax (Canada)
Pendlerdrøm	Barry Truax (Canada)
Hildi's Talking Rain	Hildegard Westerkamp (Canada)

Concert II
Latin American Electroacoustic Music
Martin Fumarola, curator

Thursday, April 6, 2000, 3:00 p.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

pre/post-concert sound scape On The Liquid Edge by Ricardo Dal Farra

Construçoes I a X	Jose Augusto Mannis (Brazil)
Cientos de Voces	Raul Minsburg (Argentina)
El Peregrinar de la Araña	Martìn Fumarola (Argentina)
Arena	Francesca Ancarola (Chile)
Le cri Ètouffè	Daniel Zimbaldo (Argentina/Spain)
Hombres tristes y sin titulo rodeados por pajaros en noche amarilla, violeta y naranja	Jorge Antunes (Brazil)
Metamorfosis II	Lucio Cuellar (Colombia/USA)
Bereshit 1.3	Pablo Sotuyo (Uruguay)
Cycles	Rodrigo Sigal (Mexico/England)
Sin los Cuatro	Rajmil Fischmann (Peru/England)
SL-9	Manuel Rocha Iturbide (Mexico/France)

This concert features different types of electroacoustic and computer music by Latin American composers. This year there are more pieces by composers living in Europe as well as by young emerging composers. More emphasis is given to Brazil as well: Jorge Antunes is the pioneer of electroacoustic music in Brazil and Jose Augusto Mannis is the Director of the CDMC-Brazil (an important documentation center for contemporary Latin American music). Francesca Ancarola, from Chile, is one of the outstanding young women composers in South America. Ricardo Dal Farra, an internationally renowned Latin American composer, offers us something refreshing and interesting: an electroacoustic soundscape that will be performed before and after this concert. -Martin Fumarola

Concert III

Thursday, April 6, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

Degrees of Separation "Grandchild of Tree"	Paul Rudy (Missouri)
Lot #2000	Ed Martin (Texas)
Canciones para las estrellas	Riccardo Bianchini (Italy)
Tesserae, for digital media	Elizabeth Hoffman (New York)
Path of Iron	Alicyn Warren (Virginia)
ANAKOLUT	Palle Dahlstedt (Sweden)
Arturo, electroacoustic music	Elainie Lillios (Texas)
Sometimes When Iım Awake	Keith Kothman (Florida)
Color Code	Javier Garavaglia (Germany/Argentina)

Concert IV
University of Missouri, Kansas City
James Mobberley and Paul Rudy, curators

Friday, April 7, 2000, 9:00 a.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

Sparks	Mikito Oki
Cymbolic	Robert Cooper
Conversation	Ian Corbett
Stationary Front	Mike McFerron
gitchee gumee	Daniel Nass
Take a Walk with Me	Hsiao-Lan Wang
Sarah Was Ninety Years Old	Seongah Shin
Dandelions	Timothy Place

Concert V


Friday, April 7, 2000, 3:00 p.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

Fit, for trombone and computer	Samuel J. Hamm, Jr. (New York)
Night Ascends from the Ear like a Butterfly	Hideko Kawamoto (Texas)
Ascension	Mei-Fang Lin (Illinois)
Schlammverfestigung. Mit Ausclick auf den grossen Kitsch	Volkmar Klien (England/Austria)
Variations/Doubles, for alto sax and tape	Benjamin Broening (Virginia)
Miniatures	Michael Allen Thompson (Texas)
oN a LaRk	Ron Herrema (Michigan)
The Goblin Market	Kristen P. Kuster (Michigan)
Allow my heart to ache	Bonnie Miksch (Georgia)
Icarus Wept for trumpet and tape	James Mobberley (Missouri)

Concert VI
Electroacoustic Music from DeGeM
Javier Garavaglia, curator


Friday, April 7, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

"Variazioni", Movement 3 from Electric Symphony	Friedhelm Hartmann (Germany-Israel)
Sturmmusik	Ruefer Ruediger
Saxl	Sven Ingo Koch
Raeume	Robin Minard
"Xoxa Bonjour Presence" and "Xaxime Lao-tse" from Xix Mikado, 7 Klangtableaux	Johannes S. Sistermans
Der Feigenbaum	Heinz-Josef Florian
Scherzo for Windows 2.0	Frank Niehusmann
N.A.M.A. "booty" don`t walk	H. Ed Roland
human-space-factory	Hans Tutschku
Keep on the move	Guenter Heinz
Trevoce	Andre Ruschkowski

The above concert is a cooperative venture between the electronic music studio of the University of Florida (FEMS - USA) and the DeGeM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektonische Musik). The idea of James Paul Sain (University of Florida) and Javier Alejandro Garavaglia (ICEM, GNMR, DeGeM), this concert will feature works composed in Germany. We believe that this kind of cooperation is not only a vehicle to present new music but also will encourage people of different countries and cultures to get to know each other much better.

Concert VII
invisiblEARts Presents - A Concert of Recent Acousmatic Music from Scotland and Elsewhere
Robert Dow, curator

Saturday, April 8, 2000, 9:00 a.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

Incidence and Elasticity	Jonny Marks (New Zealand)
ABZ/A	Pete Stollery (Scotland)
Litany (premiere)	Robert Dow (Scotland)
Interval
Hidden Courts	Paul Fretwell (England)
TBA (premiere)	Alistair MacDonald (Scotland)
Nocturne	Simon Atkinson (Scotland)

Concert VIII


Saturday, April 8, 2000, 3:00 p.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

Afterimages No. 2, for cello and computer	Ron Parks (New York)
Stumble In	Neil Flory (Texas)
Alchemy: Visions	Daniel W. Hosken (California)
Junket	Craig Walsh (North Carolina)
Sound Mirrors for piano and tape	Larry Barnes (Kentucky)
The Home Planet	Samuel Pellman (New York)
como un coro de clarinetes celestiales	Orlando Jacinto Garcia (Florida)

Concert IX


Saturday, April 8, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

Two Cabarets, "The Vamp" for tape and theatrist	Allen Strange (California)
Halito, for flute and electroacoustic sounds	Daniel Schachter (Argentina)
L'OBVIE / L'OBTUS, for clarinet, gestural controller and interactive electronics	Joseph Butch Rovan (Florida)
Streams, for octophonic tape	Jonty Harrison (England)
Lix	James Paul Sain (Florida)
Sarah-nade (After Brahms)	Steven David Beck (Louisiana)
Music for Piano and Computer	Cort Lippe (New York)
Sequence of Earlier Heaven	Barry Truax (Canada)

Additional Events

Convocation Lecture/Recital


Presentation by Composer-In-Residence, Barry Truax
Friday, April 7, 2000, 12:50 p.m.
University of Florida Music Department, Room 120

Inner Complexity and Outer Reality: granular synthesis and soundscape composition

Two frontiers of electroacoustic music composition today are the micro-level control of sound design, and the integration of environmental sound into the compositional process. Granular approaches to processing sampled sound have been pioneered by Barry Truax who will demonstrate how this technique brings out the inner complexity of these sounds, and how his compositional approach integrates environmental sound experience and its imagery into his music.

Paper/Report Session


Saturday, April 8, 2000, 12:30 p.m.
University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater

Notation of Electroacoustic Music with Performer	Margaret Anne Schedel (New York)
Abstract: Performers are eager to play interactive music, but the performance of much interactive music is difficult, if not impossible, without the presence of the composer. While some composers consider this advantageous, others struggle to find ways to make their attendance unnecessary. One solution to this problem is improved notation. Precise notation not only encourages performers to play pieces without composers present, it also promotes faster learning, and helps players diagnose performance problems. Thorough notation can also enable performers to give a more intelligent performance. The notation of interactive music will be discussed from the perspectives of composer and performer based on the results of a questionnaire. While there will always be limitations imposed by visually notating aural events, this paper will propose several solutions to the unique problems faced by composers of interactive music.
WCShell: a Windows front-end to Csound	Riccardo Bianchini (Italy)
Abstract: WCShell and related software is a Windows 9x/NT/2000 to Csound. It includes orchestra and score editors, a multimedia control, dialog boxes for analysis programs, a spreadsheet-like score processor and much more. WCShell is shareware software.
Real-time Analysis/Resynthesis Techniques Using Max/Msp	Cort Lippe and Ron Parks (New York)
Abstract: This paper examines recent real-time analysis/resynthesis techniques utilizing Max/Msp. The fiddle~ object is utilized for spectral analysis and pitch tracking and the information derived from the analysis is utilized in one of three resynthesis methods: additive, subtractive and spectral filtering. These techniques are explained in detail, with emphasis on the advantages and limitations of each approach. Techniques for meaningful manipulation of the analysis data prior to resynthesis are also discussed.

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