Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology Conference 2019 February 7-9, 2019  at the University of California, Santa Barbara AWMAT 2019: Impact! Impact! explores how the creative and innovative  works of women in media arts and technology influence the community. New forms of artistic representation in multimedia art are highlighted through interactive installations, virtual reality and sonic arts. Emphasis will be placed on how these new forms work in conjunction with technology to shape our culture. Now accepting submissions for papers, installations, demonstrations, sound art/concert works and workshops. Key Dates: Paper Deadline:  October 15, 2018 Workshop Proposals:  October 15, 2018 Installation/Demonstrations:  O ctober 15, 2018 Performance/Concert Works:  October 30, 2018 Notifications of Acceptance: November  2018 For more on conference and submission information please go to:   https://awmat2019. wordpr...

Music Technology - The Great Democratizer Technology is the great Democratizer. If I don't want someone to judge me based on my appearance, gender, or age, I can create a new avatar, an identity, all linked to a valid e-mail account and website which tout my achievements without giving away a single personal detail. I can contact someone across the ocean (or even just two blocks away) via text or FB or Twitter, collaborate on a project, distribute it, and never have to meet a living, breathing soul.  What is beautiful about this? If you, or you, or you want to create a great piece of art, whether it is music, or visual art, or an ebook, all you have to do it create it and hit SEND. It doesn't matter if you are ten, or twenty, or one hundred and ten. It doesn't matter if you speak Spanish, or Mandarin, or Arabic. If the music is good, if you know what you are doing, you can share your creations with the world.  Even if your music is bad, someone is bound...

Lecturer in Music Technology (one-year appointment) Department of Music The Department of Music at UMBC seeks a sell-qualified Visiting Lecturer (Full-time) in Music Technology, to begin  August 21, 2017 . This position will be responsible for all 1 st  year courses for the music technology major, teaching students in all five of the music majors the required music technology core curriculum, and mentoring upper level required senior projects and supervising their internships. This individual will provide research support to performance faculty, producing documentation (video and audio recordings) of their performances, and will supervise recording of all student performances. Individual must demonstrate required skills and aptitude for maintenance of music technology teaching spaces. Applicants who demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion by way of teaching, performing, publishing, or volunteer experiences are urged to submit an application. Salary comp...

See the musical world that Isaac Asimov only dreamed of! Dancers with sensors, laptop orchestras, and concerts in virtual worlds!  Music technology has revolutionized contemporary classical music. What was once only a remote musical dream has now become a reality through computers, robotics, interactive interfaces, and the internet. Classical composers have developed new and exciting ways to embrace new music technology without abandoning traditional classical musical form. Astounding new compositions have developed over the past few decades since the digital revolution began. Internet Performance Classical music has seen a rise in internet "performances". These performances do not take place in traditional locations like a concert hall. Instead these classical compositions take place in virtual spaces. For example, the innovative composer Alex Shapiro premiered her work in the online virtual reality world Second Life . Other musicians use live streaming throu...

Top 13 Tips on A Successful Performer- Composer Relationship As a young college composer, I was often asked to create pieces for my eager colleagues. Happily I would slave a semester away on a composition, only to see the confused faces of the performers when I excitedly handed them my carefully scrawled pages. "Uh, er...Thanks," they would say....then about a week later, they would let me know the piece was "too hard" and they couldn't fit it in this semester, with the exams, juries, and Phi Mu Alpha keg parties coming up. After piling up a dozen rejected pieces, I began developing questions that would help me get to KNOW the performer . QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK BEFORE YOU WRITE A SINGLE NOTE: 1) Do you have a recording or upcoming recital I can hear to listen to you perform? 2) What length of composition can you fit into your schedule? (I recommend starting SHORT with a new performance relationship.) 3) What styles of music do you prefer to per...

What is MIDI? MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface The MIDI language allows different electronic instruments and computer interfaces to "talk" to each other. Before the invention of MIDI, musicians had a difficult time syncing up their instrument set-ups because the instruments were not compatible with each other. MIDI was developed in 1982 and was shared freely as open source. Today most music studios and professional software programs operate off of MIDI. At first MIDI sounds were limited to 127 specific sounds that you would most likely recognize from some of the earliest video games of the 1980s. Ghostbusters Atari Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDjALoIeKU Composers like Laurie Anderson took MIDI and found new ways to express music and art through technology like the Drum Suit, samplers, CD -Rom, vocoder, and video. Puppet Motel CD Rom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYOSLqN5Ns O Superman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd7XnOnSkkA Pa...