Music I MACHINES

Music I MACHINES 50 Years of Music & Technology @MIT February 5, 2011 All events take place on the 6th Floor of the MIT Media Lab Discussions/presentations/panels (9:00am - 5:00 pm) All panelists/speakers are either MIT faculty or current/former students at MIT. 9:00-9:45a Keynote: Music Technology and MIT Max Mathews ("Father of Computer Music") 9:45-10:30a The Dawn of Digital Music at MIT in the 1960s Prof. Joe Paradiso, moderator; Peter Samson, Wayne Slawson, Chris Strangio 10:30-11:00a 11:00-11:45a 11:45-12:30p 12:30-1:00p 1:00-2:00p 2:00-2:45p 3:00-3:45p 4:00-4:45p Coffee Break The MIT Experimental Music Studio and Live Computer Performance Barry Vercoe (MIT) and Miller Puckette (UCSD, inventor of MAX/MSP, pd, etc.) Opera, Collaboration, and (Sometimes) Serendipity Prof. Tod Machover and team from Death and the Powers, including Ben Bloomberg, Peter Torpey and Elly Jessop The Manual Input Sessions Performance by Golan Levin Lunch Break Music, Mind and Meaning Prof. Marvin Minsky, in "musical" conversation with Teresa Marrin, Mary Farbood and Mike Hawley Music, Emotion and Health Prof. Tod Machover, moderator; Robert Rowe (NYU), Mary Farbood (NYU), Adam Boulanger (MIT Media Lab), Gottfried Schlaug (Harvard Medical School) From Prototypes to the Populace: MIT spinoffs in music and technology Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe, moderator; Eran Egozy (co-founder of Harmonix and co- inventor of Guitar Hero), Brian Whitman (Echo Nest), Mark Ethier (iZotope) Informal demos. installations, performances (6:00 - 8:00 pm) • Andrew McPherson (Drexel University) - Magnetic Resonator Piano [in E15 Lower Level Atrium] • Joe Paradiso (MIT Media Lab) Mammoth Modular Synthesizer • Minsky MUSE Synthesizer (only working model of 1960s automated composition generating machine) • Rob Morris (MIT Media Lab) — iPhone Guitar • Harmonix — Rock Band 3 with new Fender Squier and Mustang Guitar Controllers • Miller Puckette (UCSD) - latest and greatest MAX/MSP and pd extensions/demos • Adam Boulanger (MIT Media Lab) - Musical Early Detection System for Alzheimer's disease • Echo Nest demo • iZotope demo • Sourcetone demo Concert (8:00 - 10:30 pm) • Barry Vercoe - Synapse (1976) for amplified viola and prerecorded electronics • Richard Boulanger/Vercoe - Synaptogenesis (Synapse remix, 2011) for live electronics • Keeril Makan - Zones d'Accord (2002) for cello solo (acoustic although based on electronics) • Peter Whincop - New Work (2011) for live electronics • Evan Ziporyn - Belle Labs (2006) for violin, bass clarinet and Heliphon (from Ensemble Robot) • Robert Rowe - Cigar Smoke (2004) for clarinet and interactive electronics • Mary Farbood - New Work (2011) for piano, composed with Hyperscore software • Tod Machover - Spheres and Splinters (2010) for hypercello and interactive visuals For further information, please contact Simone Ovsev. Associate Producer, FAST Festival EFTA00698870