Conference & Symposia Schedule
Oct. 10 | Oct. 11 | Oct. 12 | Oct. 13 | Oct 14
7:00pm
Pre-Concert Discussion
John
Schaefer, moderator
8:00pm CONCERT
American
Composers Orchestra:
Orchestra
Tech Opening Concert
Miller
Theatre, Columbia University
Broadway and
116th Street
10:00pm
OPENING RECEPTION (by invitation only)
Lerner Hall,
Columbia University
8:30am -
10:00am CONFERENCE REGISTRATION/SIGN-IN (coffee)
The Lighthouse
Conference Center
Benay Venuta Hall
111 East 59th
Street, New York
10:00am -
12:00pm OPENING SESSION
Technology
and the Orchestra:
The
Composers Vision-Past, Present, Future
Leading
composers and musical pioneers offer their perspectives on the
history, problems and promise of uniting technology and the orchestra.
Frank
Oteri, moderator; Mario
Davidovsky, David
Felder, Gil
Rose, Tod Machover,
Roger Reynolds,
Morton Subotnick,
Randall Woolf
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30pm -
3:30pm SYMPOSIUM
Extended
Instruments/Extended Ensembles
The advance of
music technology offers extends the sonic possibilities of
traditional instruments and can redefine the limits of conventional
ensembles. Leading composers share their vision, techniques and
musical explorations.
Robert
Beaser, moderator; Joshua
Fineberg, Tod Machover,
Tristan Murail,
Rand Steiger
3:45pm -
5:30pm SYMPOSIUM
Sampling
& Borrowing
Since the
1940s development of Musique Concrète, composers have worked
with pre-existing sounds. With the digital age has come an explosion
of possibilities and questions. Composers who use digital sampling
techniques discuss and illustrate their music.
John
Schaefer, moderator; Ingram
Marshall, Paul
D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), John
Oswald, Mark
Wingate, Randall
Woolf
5:15pm - 7:00pm Dinner (on your own)
8:00pm CONCERT
Orchestra
Tech presents Speculum Musicae
Merkin Concert Hall
10:00pm
RECEPTION (open to the public)
Merkin Concert
Hall lobby
9:00am -
10:00am REGISTRATION/SIGN-IN
The Lighthouse
Conference Center
Benay Venuta Hall
111 East 59th
Street, New York
10:00am -
12:00pm SYMPOSIUM
New Forms
& New Sounds
Today's
digital technologies allow composers to conceptualize and create
compositional structures and fresh sonic possibilities that were
previously unimaginable. Composer working on this ever-changing
aesthetic turf, present their ideas and music.
Robert
Beaser, moderator; Edmund
Campion, Ricardo
Dal Farra, James
Mobberley, Roger
Reynolds
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30pm -
3:00pm PANEL DISCUSSION
Orchestras
in the Digital Age
How have
symphony orchestras adapted to the digital age? What are the
challenges and opportunities that technology provides to Americas
orchestral institutions. Leading figures from the world of orchestra
programming and management share their thoughts.
Jesse
Rosen, moderator; Joseph
Kluger, Evans
Mirageas, George
Steel, Martin
Verdrager
3:15pm -
5:15pm SYMPOSIUM
The
Internet, Interactivity, Multimedia: New Artistic Definitions
How does the
rapid growth of the World Wide Web and multimedia impact on the
composer's work and the audience's experience? Composers, multimedia
artists, and technology innovators offer their perspectives.
Joe
Paradiso, moderator; Jason
Freeman, Mari
Kimura, Golan
Levin, Pete
Rice, Robert
Rowe
5:15pm - 7:00pm Dinner (on your own)
7:00pm
Pre-Concert Discussion
Tod
Machover, moderator
8:00pm CONCERT
Ethel:
Electric Quartet
Great Hall,
Cooper Union
9:00am -
10:00am REGISTRATION/SIGN-IN
Provincetown Playhouse
New York University
130 MacDougal
Street, New York
10:00am -
12:00pm COLLOQUIUM
New
Paradigms in Publishing, Copying, Dissemination and Distribution
Technology has
opened up new possibilities in the preparation, publication and
dissemination of orchestral music. Representatives from the worlds of
music publishing, distribution, copying and musical notation, discuss
the current state-of-the-art, legal questions and upcoming developments.
Richard
Kessler, moderator; Corey
Field, James Kendrick,
Charles
Mann, Robert
Sutherland
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30pm -
3:00pm SYMPOSIUM
New
Scientific Frontiers
Scientists,
software and hardware engineers, are continually pushing the
technology envelope. Often their work means not only new
possibilities for composers, but new working methods as well. What
might the future look like? Technological innovators demonstrate
their work and share their thoughts.
Tod
Machover, moderator; Perry
Cook, Peter
Otto, Joe
Paradiso, Miller
Puckette, David
Wessel
3:15pm -
4:30pm ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION
Technology
and the Orchestra: New Ideas on the Conductor-Composer Collaboration
How has
technology changed the role of the conductor, and how orchestras work
with composers? How might it in the future? An open session in for
forward-thinking maestros to share their experiences, concerns and
ideals with composers whose work redefines the collaborative music-making
process.
Greg
Sandow, moderator; Paul
Lustig Dunkel, Dante Anzolini, Tod
Machover, Neil
Rolnick, Jonathan
Sheffer, Rand
Steiger
4:30pm - 8:00pm Free Afternoon/Dinner (on your own)
8:00pm CONCERT
Electro-Acoustic
Composers Out Front!
The Knitting Factory
Free morning, Breakfast/Lunch on your own
2:30pm -
5:30pm OPEN REHEARSAL
ACO:
Technology and the Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
[use stage door entrance on 56th Street, east of Seventh Ave.]
6:45pm
Pre-Concert Discussion
Robert
Beaser, moderator
8:00pm CONCERT
American
Composers Orchestra
Technology
and the Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
10:00pm CLOSING RECEPTION (by invitation only)
please note: conference schedule is subject to change without notice.
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