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.”

Two online journals

Dancecult : journal of electronic dance music culture. “Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC).”

Jems : journal of experimental music studies. “Jems is an online peer-reviewed journal devoted to experimental, systems, minimal, post-minimal, ‘new’ tonal and postmodern music.” The same web site also hosts The experimental music catalogue and its article archive.

I’ve updated the meta-bibliography. All links to Music & Dance Reference should now work.

Electroacoustic music meta-bibliography

The meta-bibliography is available again, in a thoroughly revised and updated version.

(The EAM meta-bibliography is a bibliography of electroacoustic music bibliographies. It is a spin-off from my master’s thesis in library and information science, and covers websites, books and journal articles that list items of interest to EAM composers and researchers.)

EAM in DDM-online

One can find quite a few dissertations on electroacoustic music at Doctoral dissertations in musicology-online. The index is searchable by keyword or classification. It is possible to use * as a wildcard, though only at the end of strings. A search for “electro*” yields 53 items, most of them relevant, while a search for items classified as “71ek*”, i.e. twentieth century (7) – historical musicology (1) – electronic music (ek), lists 36 dissertations. ISBN:s are given for published works, and dissertations in progress are listed and asterisked. There are also instructions for submission of your own dissertation or topic.

The Experimental Music Studios of the UIUC celebrates 50th anniversary

The Experimental Music Studios of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released an four CD set in celebration of their 50th anniversary. The music is freely available as mp3s.

There is also a paper on the history of the center by Emanuele Battisti: The Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois, 1958-68: Environment, People, Activities, and one can find more history-related stuff if one looks around the site.

Lejaren Hiller created and directed the studio during its first ten years. He left in 1968 when he was appointed professor of composition at SUNY at Buffalo, and his archive belongs to the SUNY Music Library. The inventory, together with a brief chronology and bibliography, is compiled by Pei-jung Wu (this resource will be added to the EAM meta-bibliography).

Via Synthopia.

EAM meta-bibliography

I’ve extended and moved the bibliography to here, since it was a bit difficult to read in blog format.

(The EAM meta-bibliography is a bibliography of electroacoustic music bibliographies. It is a spin-off from my master’s thesis in library and information science, and covers websites, books and journal articles that list items of interest to EAM composers and researchers.)

Bibliografier

I ett tidigare inlägg nämnde jag EARS ambitiösa bibliografi. Det finns flera andra intressanta bibliografier på webben, och här är en kommenterad lista:

Jef Chippewas Electroacoustic bibliography från 2006 innehåller omkring 100 verk som spänner över så gott som hela EAM-fältet.

Computer music journals A bibliography of computer music tar upp datormusik, ljudsyntes m.m. och innehåller 250-300 titlar, men är senast uppdaterad 2001. (En ännu äldre version är Stephen Travis Popes A computer music library från 1993.)

Sound to sense, sense to sound (S2S2) bibliography database förtecknar material om musikakustik och ljudsyntes i en sökbar databas. S2S2 drivs av en sammanslutning av institutioner vid europeiska universitet, som också står bakom webbplatsen http://www.soundandmusiccomputing.org/. De ger även ut en gajd till datorbaserad ljud- och musikforskning. (Det finns f.ö. en liknande men kortare studie som bara täcker Storbritannien.)

Anmärkning 2009-05-06: Vare sig S2S2.org och soundandmusiccomputing.org finns längre. Gå istället till Sound and music computing. Här finns både bibliografin (dock något förändrad till innehållet) och gajden.

Den belgiska institutionen Musiques et recherches har ett dokumentationscenter med en sökbar databas, ElectroDoc, som också innehåller verk och biografier, men tyvärr bara på franska.

Lite mer perifera är ISMIR (International conference on music information retrieval and related activities) proceedings och Music information retrieval research bibliography home page. Den förstnämnda har alla artiklar tillgängliga i fulltext (PDF).

Domänanalys av elektroakustisk musik

Min magisteruppsats i biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap från Uppsala universitet handlar om kunskapsorganisation inom EAM och heter Domänanalys av elektroakustisk musik : undersökning av en konstnärlig domäns litteratur. Den finns i EMS bibliotek (under “Elektroakustisk musik”) och kan laddas ner som PDF från länken ovan. Den kan också hittas på min webbplats. Här är en kort abstrakt på engelska:

Pär Johansson: Domain Analysis of Electroacoustic Music : a Study of an Art Domain’s Literature

This master’s thesis studies the literature of electroacoustic music (EAM) from a domain analysis perspective. The aims of the thesis are i) to determine if domain analysis can be successfully applied to an art domain, and ii) to give an overview of the EAM literature. The theories and methods of domain analysis and bibliometrics, in particular domain definition and author population choice, are discussed and evaluated. The domain literature is reviewed, and its classification and indexing in selected bibliographies are examined to determine the important subjects of EAM. An author co-citation analysis of 51 important authors is performed and interpreted with regards to the previously found subjects. It is concluded that i) domain analysis is a viable method for studies of art domains, and that ii) the methods used in this thesis give a satisfactory overview of the EAM literature.

Ämnesord: Klassifikation, indexering, bibliometri, elektroakustisk musik
Keywords: Classification, Indexing, Music

EARS och EMS Network

EARS (ElectroAcoustic Resource Site) och Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS Network) är två besläktade sajter, eftersom Leigh Landy, redaktören för tidskriften Organised sound, är inblandad i båda. EMS network ordnar bl.a. konferenser, den senaste i Leicester 2007. Konferensartiklarna finns upplagda på sajten i de flesta fall.

EARS har en kommenterad bibliografi med ämnesord, ordförklaringar och en tesaurus, samtliga flerspråkiga. Rekommenderas, även om jag finner deras ämnesordslista en smula ologisk och förvirrande. Det finns flera EAM-bibliografier på nätet, och jag kommer att posta länkarna här senare.