eOREMA journal call

"The eOREMA journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly arm of the OREMA (Online Repository for Electroacoustic Music Analysis) project (www.orema.dmu.ac.uk) that focuses on the analysis of electroacoustic music. The eOREMA journal will be an open access publication platform that accepts both articles that discuss analytical methodologies and analyses of electroacoustic music compositions in the broadest sense (which can range from acousmatic music to installations and electronica). We encourage both new and established researchers to contribute."

Deadline for paper submissions: Friday 4th of January 2013. More info

New books and CDs in EMS' library

Many thanks to Andrés Lewin-Richter who has donated 21 CDs with Spanish contemporary and electroacoustic music to EMS' library:

• Foro de comunicaciones electroacústicas. Vol II-III
• ICMC 2005 : free sound
• Balsach, Llorenç: Música concreta
• Berenguer, José Manuel: On nothing
• Brnčić, Gabriel: Barcelona: Músiques 1974-2011, Gabriel Brnčić
• Callejo, Lluís: Lluís Callejo
• Capdevila, Mercè: Zas : música vertical
• Elvira, Julián: Obres per a flauta i electrònica
• Ferrer, Carlos: Gil Obres per a trombó i electrònica
• Giner, Xelo: Obres per a saxòfon i electrònica
• Iglesias, Lito: Obres per a violoncel i electrònica
• Jara, Jesús: Obres per a tuba i electrònica
• Lewin-Richter, Andrés: Andrés Lewin-Richter 1-2
• Padrós, David: Jo-ha-kyu
• Parra, Hector: L’aube assaillie : música de cambra
• Quadreny, Mestres: L’estro aleatorio
• Ribera Torres, Manel: El món d’Ulisses
• Rossinyol, Jordi: Lapsus : música de cambra

It's been a while since I reported new stuff, so many of the items below aren't really new anymore. Please note that many of our books (and a few CDs/DVDs) are available in the Music and theatre library catalogue. If you don't live in Stockholm, you can borrow an EMS book as an interlibrary loan ("fjärrlån", ask your local library).

New books

• Black fat soil = Svart fet jord
• Harmony and tonality : papers given at a seminar organized by the Music Acoustics Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
• OEI nr 55 2011 : on tape
• Kommentare zur neuen Musik, 1
• Ackerfeldt, Carl: Depeche Mode : världens mest originella band?
• Agostini, Luigi: Creating soundscapes
• Aikin, Jim: Csound power! : the comprehensive guide
• Anderberg, Carl-Olof: Hän mot en ljudkonst
• Andersson, Kent: Tendenser inom den moderna musikelektronikkulturen
• Arrhenius, Sara & Bergh, Magnus: Resan till månen = A trip to the moon
• Asplund, Pär: Analoga modulära synthesizers : diskussioner kring design
• Bijsterveld, Karin & Dijck, José van (ed.): Sound souvenirs : audio technologies, memory and cultural practices
• Breatnach, Mary: Boulez and Mallarmé : a study in poetic influence
• Bucht, Gunnar: Född på Krigsstigen : minnesbilder, människor, musik
• Butler, Mark J. (ed.): Electronica, dance and club music
• Clarke, Eric F. & Emmerson, Simon (ed.): Music, mind and structure
• Crook, Tim: Radio drama : theory and practice
• Danchev, Alex (ed.): 100 artists' manifestos
• Documenta (13 : 2012 : Kassel, Germany): Das Begleitbuch = The guidebook
• Dolk, Kalle & Ottem, Bernt Johan: Musik & data
• Duncan, John: John Duncan : Los Angeles, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Scrutto
• Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference: Sforzando! : June 14-18, 2011, New York City
• Eriksson, Michael: Jean-Michel Jarre : musiken 1976-1986
• Eriksson, Michael: Play it again, SID : datorspelsmusiken för Commodore 64
• Escrivan Rincón, Julio d': Music technology
• Freedman, Camilla: Elektronmusikprojektet på Kärsbyskolan : 1986-1989
• Grundmann, Heidi: Re-inventing radio : aspects of radio as art
• Gärdenfors, Dan: Towards musical hypermedia : an investigation of the possibilities of non-sequential music
• Hambraeus, Bengt: Aspects of twentieth century performance practice : memories and reflections
• Hansson, Olof: Efva Lilja och musiken : en studie av Efva Liljas arbete med musik och tonsättare i produktionen Byen Viso
• Harper, Adam: Infinite music : imagining the next millennium of human music-making
• Hein, Folkmar & Seelig, Thomas: Internationale Dokumentation elektroakustischer Musik = International documentation of electroacoustic music
• Holmes, Thom: Electronic and experimental music : technology, music, and culture (4th ed.)
• Kiefer, Peter (ed.): Klangräume der Kunst
• Klanten, Robert ; Ehmann, Sven & Hanschke, Verena: A touch of code : interactive installations and experiences
• LaBelle, Brandon & Martinho, Cláudia (ed.): Site of sound #2 : of architecture and the ear
• LaBelle, Brandon & Migone, Christof (ed.): Writing aloud : the sonics of language
• Lidbo, Håkan & Lidbo, Johan: Spelskalle : 60 spel med vardagslivet som insats
• Machado, Penousal ; Romero, Juan & Carballal, Adrian (ed.): Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design : First International Conference, EvoMUSART 2012. Proceedings
• McAdams, Stephen: Music and psychology : a mutual regard
• Migone, Christof: Christof Migone : sound voice perform
• Millroth, Thomas: Man får förlora sig
• Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde: Simple interactions : sound art from Japan : September 24th - December 18th 2011
• Nordeson, Kjell: Cage och Fylkingen
• Nylén, Magnus: Fluxus och den experimentella musiken
• Nyström, Lars-Olof: Digital kreativitet : bland låtskrivare, digitala pirater, tonsättare, hemstudiopulare, musiker, kompositörer och deras maskiner
• Olofsson, Charlie (ed.): Musik och genus : röster om normer, hierarkier och förändring
• Olofsson, Martin: De futuristiska musikerna och Einstürzende Neubauten : en jämförelse av bullerestetik
• Olsson, Erik: David Tudor och kompositörens nya roller
• Paulsson, Johanna: Avantgardistisk musik & äcklandets estetik : en musiksociologiskt inriktad studie av de provokativa dragen hos Throbbing Gristle
• Perle, George: Serial composition and atonality : an introduction to the music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern
• Perrine, Jake: Producing music with Ableton Live 8
• Perrine, Jake: Sound design, mixing, and mastering with Ableton Live
• Peters Deniz ; Eckel, Gerhard & Dorschel, Andreas (ed.): Bodily expression in electronic music : perspectives on reclaiming performativity
• Ptak, Anna (ed.): Re-tooling residences : a closer look at the mobility of art professionals
• Schafer, R. Murray: The new soundscape : a handbook for the modern music teacher
• Schnupp, Jan ; Nelken, Israel & King, Andrew: Auditory neuroscience : making sense of sound
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz: Texte ... Bd 1-4
• Stravinskij, Igor & Craft, Robert: Samtal med Stravinskij. 2
• Strohecker, Nino: Victims : a film
• Sverige. Utredningen om en nationell musikplattform: I samspel med musiklivet : en ny nationell plattform för musiken : slutbetänkande
• Ternhag, Gunnar & Wingstedt, Johnny: På tal om musikproduktion : elva bidrag till ett nytt kunskapsområde
• Thomas, Ernst (ed.): Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik 1961
• Thyrén, David: Brian Eno : en undersökning av Enos musik
• Törnblom, Folke H.: Att läsa partitur
• Zorn, John (ed.): Arcana V : music, magic and mysticism

New CDs and DVDs

• Cache 2005
• Cache 2006
• Computer music journal : sound and video anthology. Volume 35, 2011
• Cage, John: Variations VII (9 evenings : theatre and engineering)
• Petersson, Mattias: Floodlight
• Rauschenberg, Robert: Open score (9 evenings : theatre and engineering)
• Tudor, David: Bandoneon ! : (a combine) (9 evenings : theatre and engineering)

 (The full catalogue can be found here: http://www.elektronmusikstudion.se/library-and-archives/.)

Two online archives

noise-arch.net - a collection of experimental music released on cassette during the 80s and 90s.

ICA Soundworks - really an online exhibition of sound art.

ICMC proceedings online

Thanks to a collaboration with the University of Michigan Library, the International Computer Music Conference proceedings from 1975 onward are now available online. The articles are full text searchable.

Algorithmic.net

Algorithmic.net by Christopher Ariza is a "comprehensive research resource for computer aided algorithmic music composition, including over one-thousand research listings, over one hundred system listings, cross referenced links to research, links to software downloads and documentation, and web-based tools for searching and filtering the complete lexicon."

European Sound Studies Organisation founded

ESSA, the European Sound Studies Organisation, was founded on Friday, July 14 2012. The aim is to provide an international, interdisciplinary and interprofessional organization for promoting the study of sound by providing a forum for knowledge exchange, for conferences, for research encouragement and development of projects, and for information. Membership is currently free, but an annual fee will be charged eventually.

There are three open access journals affiliated with ESSA: Soundeffects, Journal of sonic studies, and Interference, which I've mentioned before.

Call for projects 2013-2014: IRCAM Musical Research Residency Program

The fourth edition of IRCAM's Musical Research Residency program is now open for online submissions for the 2013-2014 school calendar. IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music) offers experimental environments where composers/artists strive to expand their artistic experience at one end, and scientists aim at extending research and technological paradigms for new artistic expressions. Such interactive process is called Musical Research.

For its fourth edition, IRCAM and the INEDIT Project partners are inviting composers and artists to submit projects for the 2013-2014 Musical Research Residency program. The program is open to international artists, regardless of age or nationality, who wish to carry experimental research using Ircam's and partners’ facilities and extensive research environment. Submission is online only and an international panel of experts including researchers, composers, computer musicians and artists will evaluate each project. Upon nomination, each candidate will be granted a residency at Ircam during a specific period (three or six months) and in association with a team/project at Ircam. In addition, laureates receive an equivalent of 1200 Euros per month to cover expenses in France.

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2012
Details and submission procedure:
http://www.ircam.fr/875.html?L=1
http://www.ulysses-network.eu/web/competitions/residency2012/

(Via Music-IR list)

Female sound art in Terz Magazin

Terz Magazin has some articles on women in sound art and electroacoustic music: Lauren Redhead on British artists Caroline Lucas, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Claire M. Singer, and Karen Lauke, Michaela Graf on sexuality and sound art, Sabrina Peña Young on Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Alice Shields, Adina Izarra, Brenda Hutchinson, Annea Lockwood and Elainie Lillios, and finally Julia Gerlach on Maryanne Amacher, Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Christina Kubisch, Kaffe Matthews and Hanna Hartmann. There are also features on Mia Zabelka and Katharina Klement.

DREAM

DREAM, Digital Re-Working Re-Appropriation of Electro-Acoustic Music, is

"a EU funded project aimed at preserving, reconstructing, and exhibiting the devices and the music of the Studio di Fonologia Musicale di Milano della Rai. During the 1950s and 1960s, this was one of the leading places in Europe for the production of electro-acustic music, together with Paris and Cologne.

During the project, part of the equipment of the Studio (oscillators and non-linear filters) has been virtually reconstructed and will become part of the permanent exhibit at the Museum of Musical Instruments in Milan. Some of these devices were used by Belgian composer Henri Pousseur to compose Scambi, one of the very first examples of open forms in music. The history of the Studio and the main project results have been published in the book The Studio di Fonologia - A Musical Journey (Ricordi, 2012)."

I hardly need mention that the Studio di Fonologia was the place where Berio, Maderna and Nono created their early electronic works. It seems that the book hasn't been released yet, but there's an earlier Italian version available at the Ricordi website.

More random stuff

Open space publications and magazine.

A chronology / history of electronic and computer music and related events 1906 - 2012 by Paul Doornbusch.

EAnalysis (beta version) - a tool for the analysis of electroacoustic music, to be presented at the EMS conference in Stockholm.

AES oral history #85 - John Chowning on the origins of FM synthesis (lots of other interesting clips too).

Multimodal music processing - a free online book edited by Meinard Müller, Masataka Goto and Markus Schedl.