Berklee Hosts International Csound Conference, October 25-27

Berklee College of Music will host the second
International Csound Conference, October 25-27, featuring keynote
speakers, living legends of early computer music John Chowning
and Jean-Claude Risset, as well as performances, workshops, and
installations from the leading figures of electronic music. 

 The event will include a musical tribute to Max Mathews,
the father of computer music, with performances from Csound inventor
and MIT Media Lab cofounder Barry Vercoe and world-renowned
electronic music composer and educator, Berklee professor Richard Boulanger. Presented by
Berklee's Electronic Production and Design department,
the conference will explore the role of Csound in contemporary music, film, and
advertising; Csound for iOS, Android, and Ableton Live; and other topics. 

 John Chowning invented FM synthesis
in 1967, which led to the first commercially successful and second best-selling
synthesizer of all time, the Yamaha DX7. Today, FM synthesis is
ubiquitous, used in everything from contemporary electronic music to cell phone
ringtones. 

Jean-Claude Risset is best known
for his innovative use of wave shaping and other synthesis techniques
to sculpt sound. At Bell Labs in the 1960s, he
developed acoustic illusions (auditory equivalents of M.C. Escher's
optical illusions) including a scale in which a tone appears to
rise or descend continuously in pitch, and a rhythmic effect in which tempo
seems to increase or decrease endlessly.  

Csound is a computer programming
language for sound composition and audio synthesis. Developed in the mid-1980s
at MIT by Barry Vercoe, Csound is a free and open source program based on the
MUSIC-N model initiated by Max Mathews at Bell Labs. Developed over nearly 30
years, it currently has 1,873 unit generators, the building blocks of audio
synthesis. 

Conference registration is limited to 200. Visit csound.org.

$50 for Students, $100 General

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNUO2mg_vE

http://csound.org