A look back at some items in our archives.
Batera: Drummer Agent with Style Learning and Interpolation. Rafael Valle and Adrian Freed
Ubiquitous in most DAWs and available in online versions, programmable drum step sequencers have been around since 1972, when Eko released the ComputeRhythm. In our previous research at CNMAT, these drum step sequencers have been expanded to include onset probabilities[1] and rhythmic expressivity [2].
Richard Andrews
CNMAT, UC Berkeley, 1750 Arch St., Berkeley, CA 94709
Discovering and Composing with Logos
by John Campion
Text insists on bringing its high-mindedness into the daily grind of the social, political, topological—
the conscious. Divested of its music and image, poetry is an exploration of the logos oriented towards
the whatness of things—held by the four-corned architecture and holding a mirror to a lived-in world.
Often understood to be without logos and operating outside these rude concerns, the art of music is
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTORThe CNMAT Users Group (CUG) have teamed with CNMAT’s Associate Director, Richard Andrews, to conceive and produce this first edition of the CNMAT Newsletter. CNMAT strives to be an open community of users and dedicated staff who work together. We continue to thrive both on-line and in person -- where allowed. WOW, what a year!!!
Microstructures of Feel, Macrostructures of Sound:
Embodied Cognition in West African and African-American Musics
Vijay S. Iyer
B.S. (Yale University) 1992
M.A. (University of California, Berkeley) 1994
A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the
requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Technology and the Arts
in the
GRADUATE DIVISION
of the
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Committee in charge:
Professor David Wessel, Chair
Professor Olly Wilson
Professor Ervin Hafter
Professor George Lewis
Professor Donald Glaser
Fall 1998
Microstructures of Feel, Macrostructures of Sound:
Embodied Cognition in West African
and African-American Musics
© 1998
by
Vijay S. Iyer
A compact disc containing the audio examples cited throughout the text is available at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA 94720, (510) 643-9990 x 300. However, the text is understandable without this supplementary material. All musical selections are small excerpts from original recordings, unless otherwise indicated. Selections in parentheses were created by the author.
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