Asia Computer Music Project 2010

- Korea and Japan -

대구광역시 달서구 달구벌대로 2800 계명대학교 성서캠퍼스

음악공연예술대학 작곡과

Keimyung University, College of Music & Performing Art,

Composition Department

2800 Dalgubeoldaero, Dalseo-Gu, Daegu, Korea 704-701

Tel. 053-580-6576 / Fax. 053-580-6524

작성, 작곡과 신성아 교수 010-3731-4286/x6555

 

제목:        아시아 컴퓨터음악 프로젝트 2010 Asia Computer Music Project 2010

일시:        2010년 10월 12일 화요일

 

세미나             

주제:        아시아 컴퓨터음악의 현재와 미래 Present and Future of Computer Music in Asia

         @@@@현대 컴퓨터음악에서 음악적 컴퓨팅의 경향 Recent Trends in Musical Computing

발제:        Naotoshi Osaka(도쿄뎅키대학 교수)/Richard Dudas(한양대 작곡과 교수)

통역:        신성아 교수

장소:        음악공연예술대학 141호

시간:        오후 2시 - 4시30분

 

      This talk will serve as an introduction to some of the recently developed computer techniques in the field of music technology.  An overview of several trends will be discussed, as well as a more in-depth focus on the techniques of physical modeling synthesis, and its musical applications. Many of these techniques have been around for a long time, but the continuing increase in computer processor speeds has made them more accessible to musicians and composers working with technology.  There are, nonetheless, many new techniques in the vanguard of musical computing, and many new ideas to be explored and developed by computer music researchers and musicians in the future.

 

시간:        오후 6시

장소:        계명대학교 성서캠퍼스 음악공연예술대학 해담홀

 

주최:        Asia Computer Music Project http:// www.acmp.asia/

연락:        신성아(holybaby@gmail.com/010-3731-4286)

찾아오시는 길:     

대구 계명대학교 성서캠퍼스 대구지하철 2호선 계명대 역 하차, 계명아트센터 방향 출구에서 계명대학교 음악공연대학교 2층 214호/1층 해담홀

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Shigenobu Nakamura & Sadam Fujioka         Ramayana on the "Cubie"

 

Sungho Hwang                                  Sabba 사바(2010) for Tape*

 

Tomoko Nakai                                   Crooked Stripes for Violin and Computer*

Violin: Chi-Sang Park

 

Seongah Shin                                    fall_again v. 2(2010) for Audiovisual Work*

Experimental Film: Eunju Jang

 

Naotoshi Osaka                                 Circular Similarity for Video and Electroacoustics*

Video: Nemoto, Shota

 

Wonju Cho                                          Lamentation for Theremine, Computer-Generated Sound and Image

Theremine: Wonju Cho

 

Richard Dudas                    Cinq études aux objets virtuels for Fixed Media*

 

Takeyoshi Mori                                  The Entropic Forest(2010) for Flute and Computer*

Flute: Youngmi Kim

 

* World Premiere Work 세계초연작품

 

PROGRAM NOTE

 

Shigenobu Nakamura & Sadam Fujioka       Ramayana on the "Cubie" Live Computer

         Music Ramayana on the gCubieh is composed and performed by Shigenobu Nakamura for the Rendition Software Art gCubieh.  The gCubieh designed by Sadam Fujioka, a Japanese artist and sound programmer, has unique and imaginative interactions based on the ideas from some puzzle games. Ramayana on the gCubieh symbolically features the interpretation of the world of the Indian epic Ramayana. However, the story is not always transmitted to the audience because the symbolization originates from subjective views. Rather, I used the story for developing my own art inspiration. The abstract of the Ramayana story in this poem is as follows; The Crown Prince of Kosala Rama, who was forced out of the country by his wicked stepmother, lived in seclusion with his wife, Princess Sita. The beautiful Princess Sita was kidnapped by the Ogre king Ravana and incarcerated on Ranka Island. Prince Rama declared war on the Ogre king Ravana to save his wife, Sita. With the help of the monkey  general Hanuman, Rama went to Ranka Island and destroyed Ravana, and finally saved his wife. Some of Rama's retainers suspected that Sita had not been chaste during her incarceration, and she jumped into the fire in order to prove her innocence.

 

Sungho Hwang                      Sabba 사바(2010) for Tape

    작품 전체의 유일한 음원은 2001년 6월 어느날에 전남 송광사에서 있었던 80여 스님들의 새벽 예불 독경 중 지극히 짧은 일 부분으로 작품의 첫 머리에 제시되고는 이어 그래녈라 합성으로 왜곡되기 시작한다.

    The only sound source for this piece is the short part of sutra chanting(ζ€γS) by the monks of Songkwang temple(ΌœAŽ›). So you can hear it at the beginning. Thereafter it will be distorted by granular synthesis. (5"50)

 

Tomoko Nakai  ’‡ˆδ•όŽq               Crooked Stripes for Violin and Computer

Violin: Chi-Sang Park

         "Crooked stripes" was composed for violin and live computer system. In this piece the violin timbre is expanded by both extended performance techniques as well as by real-time signal processing. The live computer part was realized with Max/MSP.

 

Seongah Shin                             fall_again v. 2 for audiovisual work

exprimental film: Eunju Jang

         fall_again v. 2(2010) is a series work for audiovisual work with experimental film from last year and this is the second work on this series. Have you had a chance to feel ages, genders, and characters of creator through artistic works through their works? Sometimes, it make sense perfectly, sometimes, it comes with full of surprises with unexpectedness. However, I was not trying to show my personal characters though this work; I am more interested to know how my interests are going to be shown in the work subconsciously and unconsciously. We are just having a fun to see any kind of influences on the works because of the media of process that we choose to work on.

 

Naotoshi Osaka  ¬β’Ό•q          Circular Similarity for Video and Electroacoustics

Video: Shota Nemoto  ͺ–{γΔ‘Ύ

         Since 1991 the composer has performed a series of compositions called gSanzuih, referring to the water radical used in Chinese characters. The series started with gShizuku no kuzushi (Variation of Water Drops)h. This series aims at the exploration of water sound as timbre and its application to music instrumental sound, the discovery of its musical function, the discovery of musical forms which provide temporal structure, and the application of these musical concepts to video. This multimedia piece is the second such piece, following Wavelet (2007). One of the characteristics of water sound is that if it is time-stretched (corresponds to zoom with images), it can be recognized that various other timbres are embedded. For example, a water drop sound, if time stretched, can emit a castanet sounds and other percussive sounds. This piece emphasizes such characteristics and reveals each embedded timbre sequentially. This process hits the original sound and is repeated circularly. The title expresses the phenomenon of a timbre being transferred one to another circularly, in contrast to self -similarity of fractals. The water sound materials were acquired from recordings. The sound synthesis software Otkinshi and Max/MSP were used as well. The video work was done using the programming language Processing together with recorded video data.

 

Wonju Cho        Lamentation for Theremine, Computer-Generated Sound and Image

Theremine: Wonju Cho

         Lamentation은 슬픈 감정을 다양한 미디어를 통해 표현한 작품이다. 테레민 특유의 우울한 음색, 이러한 음색을 재합성하여 만든 테잎 사운드, 그리고 두 소리를 연결하는 영상을 통해 진행된다. 

      Lamentation is an expression of sorrow involving theremin, computer-generated sounds and digital images. Computer-generated sound materials employed in this piece are made by C sound. In this work, a unity between computer generated sound and theremin is created through characteristic timbre, and digital Images serves as a medium that connects these two.

 

 

Richard Dudas                         Cinq études aux objets virtuels for fixed media

        "Cinq études aux objets virtuels" (Five Etudes for Virtual Objects) is a musical composition for fixed media composed entirely of synthetic sounds created primarily using the physical modeling synthesis software Modalys, developed at IRCAM in Paris.  The title makes reference to both Pierre Schaeffer's seminal work, "Cinq ?tudes de bruits" (Five Noise Etudes), from 1948, and the "Etude aux objets" from 1959.  When Schaeffer composed these early ?tudes, using recording technology to compose and perform music with noises and sounds was new and innovative.  Today, this kind of innovation would perhaps be similar to using the latest technological developments in sound synthesis. This piece therefore pays homage to Schaeffer, the spirit of invention, the genre of "Musique Concrete" and the idea of the "objet sonore" (sound object), although paradoxically the composition does not include any recorded sounds - everything in the piece was completely generated/synthesized by the computer!

 

Takeyoshi Mori@X ˆΠŒχ             The Entropic Forest for Flute and Computer

Flute: Youngmi Kim

         This piece is composed for solo flute and computer as part of the sound installation for an exhibition of Heiner Schilingfs photography. The exhibition was held at Yokohama Museum of Art in 2000. In his pictures taken around Tokyo, the unformalized scenery of local and partial urban developments is captured as snapshots from our everyday life.  Everything is of equal significance, free from human emotion, and contain no optical effect. As a result, everyday detail is presented from Schiling's unique perspective where humans are just a small part of the greater details of the city landscape.  As of 2010 the entropic forest continues to spread. The orignal recording composed in 2000 was generated through compositional algorithms and sound synthesis, signal processing instruments written in the computer music language RTcmix. For the part of the flute some of the motifs quote from the fragments of the original recording.  A live-computer system built in Max/MSP extends the sounds of the instrument using various types of real-time sound processing techniques such as granular sampling, spectral modulation, and spatialization.

 

  ABOUT COMPOSERS

 

Shigenobu Nakamura ’†‘ΊŽ ‰„

          Shigenobu Nakamura was born in Osaka in 1950. He studied at graduate school of Aichi Prefectural University of Art and Music. Before completing his course in 1977, he studied at National Conservatory of Music in Munich with W. Killmayer, on a DAAD sholarship between 1974 and 1976.  In his young days, he has won numerous awards including the third prize in 1970 and the second prize in 1972 of composition division of the Japanese Musical Competition, the AVRO award of the International Gaudeamus Composition Competition in 1977, the composition prize by Japanese Musical Group (Nihon Ongaku Shudan) in 1978, the composition prize by the JAPAN Symphony Foundation in 1979, the Music Today Composition Award in 1983, and so on. Nakamura is a composer with a career spanning some 40 years in the field of contemporary music. He has created around 100 compositions, which include four symphonies and seven compositions for orchestra. His compositions are often performed at concerts in Japan and overseas, and much of this work is often broadcast and recorded on CD. Since the late 1980s, he has enthusiastically produced and presented Music Theater works using computers, and some of his Music Theater pieces using computers were accepted and presented at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997 and at ZKM(Media Art Center in Karlsruhe/Germany) in 1998. Recently he has also produced visual works, which were accepted and presented at International Award for Video Art (Germany) in 1995 and 1996, "l'immagine leggera" Palermo International Videoart Film and Media Festival (Italy) in 1997, ICMC2001 and ICMC2003.  In 1997 and 1998 hewas artist-in-residence at the ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics. In 1999 and 2000 he was Jury of the composition division of the Japanese Musical Competition. He is presently professor of the Department of Acoustic Design, Faculty of Design, National Kyushu University.

 

Sadam Fujioka “‘‰ͺ’θ

         Sadam Fujioka, Ph.D, is a Japanese artist and sound programmer. He focuses around on new software instruments for live performance, sound system and minimal music. His works has been exhibited and performed globally, such as in SIGGRAPH(U.S.), FILE(Brazil), ElectroFringe(Australia), International Festival of Electronic Art 404(Argentina), Asia Digial Art Award(Japan), and so on. Now he is a Research fellow at the Kyushu University.

 

Sungho Hwang 황성호

      우리나라 전자음악분야의 선구자로서 그는 추계예술대, 서울대, 한국예술종합학교의 전자음악 스튜디오들을 설립했으며 한국전자음악협회를 창립, 현재 국제적으로 널리 알려진 서울국제컴퓨터음악제를 주도했다. 그의 작품은 세계 여러나라에서 연주되었으며 ICMC 뉴올리안즈 대회, 윤이상국제음악상 등 여러 국제음악상의 심사위원을 역임했다. 현재 한국예술종합학교 음악원 작곡과 교수로 있으면서 컴퓨터음악센터 소장을 맡고있다.

      Sung ho Hwang has pioneered the electronic music field in South Korea. He had established several electronic music studios and Computer Music Center at Chugye Univ., Seoul University and KNUA. In 1993, he found Korea Electro-Acoustic Music Society and initiated Seoul International Computer Music Festival. Throughout his career, his music pieces have been performed in many countries. In addition, he has been a judge for various international music competitions, including ICMC and Isang Yun International Music Award. Currently, he serves as a professor at KNUA and as a director at Computer Music Center, KNUA.

 

Tomoko Nakai ’‡ˆδ•όŽq

         Tomoko Nakai was born in Yokohama, Japan. In 1996 she began studies in composition and computer music with Takayuki Rai and Cort Lippe at the Sonology Department, Kunitachi College of Music. In 2002 she completed a master's degree at Kunitachi. Her works have been selected and performed at various festivals and conferences such as ICMC (2001 Cuba, 2002 Sweden and 2005 Spain), "MIX.02" (Denmark), and Asia Music Festival 2003 in Tokyo. She was on the music jury for ICMC 2007, Denmark.  She currently teaches composition and computer music as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of Technology, Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, and Tokyo Denki University.

 

Seongah Shin 신성아

      Seongah Shin is a composer, sound artist, educator, and a head of biggiefried production in Seoul, South Korea. She is the Vice President for Asia/Oceania and Asia/Oceania Regional Directors for the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) and a full-time professor in the Department of Composition, College of Music & Performanc Arts, Keimung University in Daegu, South Korea.

 

Naotoshi Osaka ¬β’Ό•q

          Naotoshi Osaka is a composer and acoustics researcher. He received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Waseda University in 1978. He worked at the Electric Communication Laboratories, NTT, Tokyo, Japan, from 1978 to 2003. He received a Doctor of Engineering in 1994. His main research interest is timbre synthesis for both sound and speech. Since 1990 he has focused mainly on composing computer music and related sound synthesis technologies.  He joined the ICMC 1993 and ICMC 2003. Besides composition, he has also organized computer music concerts, such as the NTT Computer Music Symposium I (1997) and II (2001).  From 1996 to March 2003, he led a computer music research group at NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Atsugi, Kanagawa. He is presently a professor at Tokyo Denki University. He is a member of the ASJ, IEICE, IPSJ, ICMA and IEEE. He was a former ICMA Asia/Oceania Regional Director. Last year he founded the Japanese Society for Sonic Arts.

 

Shota Nemoto ͺ–{γΔ‘Ύ

          Shota Nemoto is a graduate student at Tokyo Denki University. His research focuses on searching for particular timbres in a large database of timbres.  He is presently studying sound timbre search system construction under Professor Osaka and animation programming.

 

Cho Wonju 조원주

      조원주는 이화여자대학교와 대학원에서 작곡을 전공하였으며, 현재 동국대학교 컴퓨터음악 박사과정에 있다. 순수작곡, 영화음악, 게임음악 등 분야에 활동하고 있으며 주요 작품으로 청담보살, 외출, 무적자, 파괴된 사나이, 현대자동차 V6 GDI 엔진 프로모션, 슈팅게임 shoot up 등이 있다. 현재 계명대학교, 동덕여자대학교, 우송정보대학에 출강 중이다.

      Cho Wonju studied composition at Ewha Womans University and Graduate School. Currently she is studying computer music in Dongguk University. She is active in the field of multimedia, film, and game music. Major works are Sexy Bosal, A Better Tomorrow, Man of Vendetta, Hyundai Lambda V6 engine promotion and so on. She is teaching at Keimyung University, Dong Duk Women's University, Woosong College.

 

Richard Dudas

          Richard Dudas holds degrees in Music Composition from The Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, and from The University of California, Berkeley. He additionally studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary and the National Regional Conservatory of Nice, France. Richard's compositions have been performed in the U.S, the U.K., France, Germany, Hungary, Russia and Korea, among others. In addition to writing music for acoustic instruments, he has been actively involved with computer music since the late 1980s. From 1996 to 1998 he taught computer music courses at the musical research center IRCAM in Paris, France, and from 1999 to 2008 worked for Cycling f74, Inc., developing musical tools and audio effects for the musical software programming environment, Max/MSP. In the Spring of 2002 he was a visiting lecturer in computer music at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and was a regular lecturer at the CNMAT gMax/MSP Nightschoolh summer workshops in Berkeley, California from 1998 to 2004, and at the Fourm Neues Musiktheater Max/MSP/Jitter workshops in Stuttgart, Germany from 2005-2006. Since 2007 he has been teaching music composition and computer music at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, where he currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of composition.

 

Takeyoshi Mori X ˆΠŒχ

         Takeyoshi Mori is a composer, programmer, and educator for electroacoustic music. He studied composition and sound programming at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Japan. For further study in computer music he moved to New York in 2000 and received his masterfs degree in Music Technology from New York University, where he studied electroacoustic composition, sound programming, and software development with Robert Rowe, Richard Boulanger, Joel Chadabe, and Nick Didkovsky. His recent activities have ranged from composing electroacoustic music to developing software for musical applications. His pieces have been selected and performed at Musica Viva 2007 in Portugal, ICMC 2008 in Belfast, DengakuIII (sponsored by Japan Society for Contemporary Music) in Tokyo, NYCEMF 2009 in New York, 101Tokyo in Iceland. He currently teaches electroacoustic composition and sound programming courses  at Tokyo University of the Arts and Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.

 

ABOUT PERFORMERS

 

Violin: Chi-Sang Park 박치상

      바이올리니스트 박치상은 예원, 서울예고, 서울대 음대를 졸업한 후 독일 에센 폴크방 국립음대, 독일 마인츠 요하네스 구텐베르그 음대에서 수학하였다. 8세에 소년소녀한국일보 콩쿨 금상을 시작으로 예원콩쿨, 이화경향콩쿨,  동아음악콩쿨 등 국내 유수의 음악 콩쿨에서 상위 입상하여 연주력을 인정받았으며 서울시교향악단,  서울시청소년교향악단, 서울대학교 오케스트라, 서울대학교 챔버오케스트라와 협연하여 호평을 받았으며, 서울시청소년교향악단 악장을 역임했다. 1992년 유학하여 세계적인 바이올리니스트 Viktor Pikayzen, Denes Zsigmondy, Anne Shih와 공부함으로써 솔리스트로 성장하였으며, 비올라도 같이 연주하여 Anne Shih, 박미선과 함께 스트링 트리오를, 아내 박미선과 Duo Essen을 결성하여 많은 실내악 음악회에 출연하고 있으며 국내외 유수 오케스트라와 협연하였다. 현재 계명대학교 계명쇼팽음악원, 경북대학교, 대구가톨릭대학교에 출강하고 있으며, 부천시립교향악단, 포항시립교향악단의 객원악장을 역임하였다.  

 

Flute: Youngmi Kim 김영미

      서울 예고졸업, 서울대학교 음대 기악과 졸업, Ecole Normale de Music de Paris 수석졸업, 일본 국제 Convention 콩쿠르 3위, 특별 연주상, 동아콩쿠르 최고성적 입상, KBS교향악단, 사라예보필, 체코 보헤미안필, Plovdiv State필, 불가리아 슈멘 필 등 협연, KBS교향악단 수석 역임, 현재 계명대학교 음악공연예술대학 관현악과 교수

      Graduated College of Music at Seoul National University, ?cole Normale de Musique de Paris and  Ecole National de Music de Val Maubee Won the first prize at the 1987 UFAM International Flute Competition in France and at the Dong-A Music Competition in Korea, and achieved the third prize with  best performance award at the 3rd Japan Flute Convention at Kobe in Japan. Released the duo CD with Philippe Pierlot (the Principal Flute of the Orchestre National de France) for EMI, Currently, a professor flute at Keimyung University, a member of the Ensemble Music C, the director of the Euro-Asian Flute Festival and the director of the Asian Flute Association in Korea, and formerly the Principal Flute of the KBS Symphony Orchestra

 

last updated on Sept. 7th, 2010