Summer Opps

The Orford Arts Centre (Quebec, Canada) is proud to announce the coming of the 2nd Sound Creation Workshop as part of the international Music Academy for 2007. This workshop will be held from July 2 to 14 and is available to sound creators of all styles. Our guest composers will be Alain Savouret (France) http://www.cdmc.asso.fr/biographies/r_z/savouret.htm
and Paul Koonce (USA) http://www.arts.ufl.edu/composition/bios/kooncebio.html.

in a 'phonographic' approach.
Here is how Mr. Savouret defines the term 'Phonographie' (Soundscape) : "the recording of a moment of life which could be, of course, touched up in studio, provided that the unity of time, place and action are maintained". Each composer interested to get involved in that project will be invited to create a 'phonography' focused on a place or a human activity in the area of the Academy or the surrounding region, a music against which musicians will be asked to improvise, either in real time (during the concert performance) or on tape.
In addition to this new and very specific project, there will also be training in Sound Recording techniques with Jean Landry who is one of the best soundman in Montreal, and technological workshops, with Alex Burton http://www.artificiel.org/?l=en Louis Dufort http://www.louisdufort.com/ and Paul Koonce, on two different topics :
1) theoretical presentations on aesthetical and philosophical questions around the tools,
2) practical work on aesthetical or conceptual approaches of specific tools (with Max or other software).
Mr. Koonce will teach the use of 'Supercollider' and other tools that he has developped in relation to his own aesthetical approach. "My philosophy is that a true exploration of aesthetics and how we meet their challenge inevitably leads to the tools that adequately or inadequately define us all".

Plus : presentations, debates, listening sessions, acousmatic diffusion, concerts...

For information:
Yves Daoust, workshop director: yvdaoust@videotron.ca
http://www.electrocd.com/bio.f/daoust_yv.html
http://www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca/montreal/index.asp

Professor and composer Joel Hoffman, of the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, OH, would like to announce a composition course on the island of Korcula in Croatia. The course consists of a series of daily group meetings with Professor Hoffman. The course this year will focus on writing for an ensemble consisting of composer-performers and selected instrumental musicians from other courses in the International Summer School "Upbeat." The main part of the course is writing for the Korcula Ensemble, where students will bring complete pieces or works-in-progress composed for either the complete ensemble or some part of it. The completed pieces as well as works-in-progress will be rehearsed and evaluated in a group setting by Professor Hoffman as well as by other professors in residence in terms of compositional craft and idiomatic writing for the ensemble. A few lectures will be offered by prominent musicians from Croatia and elsewhere in Europe who will be in residence in Korcula during the same period. The lectures will cover various topics beyond composition for the ensemble, including notation, performance problems, writing for the orchestra, writing for the opera, etc. A few sessions will be devoted to principles of improvisation, which will be demonstrated and discussed by Professor Hoffman. There will be a number of group exercises and activities. This part of the composition course is also open to other music students taking part in the Korcula summer program. Please send the following: a resume and completed application form for the International Music Summer School "Upbeat" composition course. In the resume, please include composition experience as well as a description of performance level on your instrument (e.g., beginning, intermediate, advanced) along with a list of some of your performance repertoire. No application fee is due at this time. Also send a score of an original work for a small ensemble of 2-8 separate parts. A live or MIDI recording of this ensemble piece (on CD) is encouraged but not required. Composers will be notified of acceptance into the course via email by April 10th. At that point, they will be informed of the makeup of the complete ensemble available for the composition course and will be asked to compose a piece for any combination of instruments available from the ensemble. At that time, composers will be asked to confirm their participation in the course by submitting an application fee of €30 (approx. US $39). It is preferable that the participants' compositions for the Korcula Ensemble be completed before the course begins so that the focus during the course can be on revising and refining. However, it is acceptable that the composition be completed during the course. The principal language of the Korcula International Music Summer School is English. In addition, Professor Hoffman can accommodate students in Italian, French, and Chinese. Please send submissions to:
            Joel Hoffman, Professor of Composition
            College-Conservatory of Music
            Cincinnati, OH 45221
            Tel: (513) 556-9504
            Fax: (513) 556-0202
            Email: hoffmaj@ucmail.uc.edu
            Web: http://public.srce.hr/hdgp/upbeat/

Receipt Deadline: April 20, 2007
The Walden School's Young Musicians Program is now accepting applications for its 35th summer session being held June 30-August 5, 2007. The Walden School is a residential, co-ed, five-week summer school, festival, and camp located in beautiful southwestern NH. The program accepts young musicians, ages 9-18, beginners to advanced, who are interested in improvisation, composition, and creative music training. Through a comprehensive curriculum that includes musicianship, improvisation, composition, chorus, computer music, and a host of other engaging courses, Walden students are offered the tools and guidance they need to express themselves through music. A dynamic and seasoned faculty; a supportive community environment; a varied concert series; collaborative artist; composer, and ensemble residencies, and weekly student composer's forums all provide a unique summer music experience for young musicians. There is an application fee of $50. The $5600 fee includes tuition, room, !
and board, and there is financial aid available. For more information or to request an application, contact:
            Seth Brenzel, Executive Director
            The Walden School
            31A 29th St.
            San Francisco, CA 94110
            Tel: (415) 648-4710
            Fax: (415) 648-1561
            Email: students@waldenschool.org
            Web: http://www.waldenschool.org/contact/apply.shtml

Stanford | CCRMA Summer Workshop:
Composing and Coding for Laptop Ensemble (CCL) 2 weeks
July 23 - August 3, 2007
Dan Trueman and Ge Wang, with Perry Cook

Emphasizing hands-on approaches, this workshop will address the challenges of making music in laptop ensembles. At the core of the workshop will be a set of meta-instruments (laptops with 6-channel hemispherical speakers, associated audio gear, sensors, and controllers) from the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk, see http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/). Together, we will act as performers, researchers, composers, and software developers, focusing our attention on instrument design, composition, and music making with these instruments. The challenges are many: what kinds of sounds can we create? how can we physically control these sounds? how do we compose with these sounds? There are also social questions with musical and technical ramifications: how do we organize ourselves in this context? with a conductor? via a wireless network? And so on.

Morning sessions will focus primarily on instrument design, composition, and coding issues using the languages ChucK and Max/MSP. Experience with these languages, or programming languages in general, is not required but will be beneficial; depending on the makeup of the group, we may at times divide into smaller groups to teach experience-appropriate skills as needed. We will look at how various composers and engineers have addressed the challenges posed by laptop ensembles and brainstorm new approaches. Afternoon sessions will emphasize music-making of already existing pieces and new pieces created by workshop members. Graduates of both the PID and DSP workshops may find this a useful workshop for applying what they have learned.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/workshops/2007/index.html

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