What's New

• ICMC 2005 will be held September 5-9, 2005 in Barcelona, Spain. The host will be Pompeu Fabra University, with sponsorship provided by the Phonos Foundation. The Conference Director is Andres Lewin-Richter.
• ICMAs newsletter ARRAY contains news, articles, discussions and reviews of concerts, books, CDs etc.
• Music database for ICMA
  Searchable database of all musical works performed at ICMC and/or commissioned by ICMA.

  Great thanks to Barry Truax for helping with program information!

• Details about ICMC 2004, recently held in Miami, FL.

ICMA Commissions

The ICMA commission for performance in 2002 has been awarded to Colby Leider. The commissions from 2001 that were not performed as planned, by Linda Antas and Mari Kimura, were also performed in Gothenburg, at the ICMC 2002.

Recent ICMA commissioned works will be featured on an upcoming compact disc released by CDCM. Featured works include:

• Microclimate I: Snow and Instability (1998) by Natasha Barrett
• Lizard Point (1997) by Ludger Bruemmer
• Expanse Hotel (1999) by Ambrose Field
• Concerto for Ensemble and Electronic Sounds (1997) by Pablo Furman
• Breath and the Machine (1999) by Paul Koonce

Searchable database of all musical works commissioned by ICMA and/or performed at ICMC.

ICMA and Swets and Zeitlinger Announce the Best Paper Award for ICMC 2003

The Best Paper at the International Computer Music Conference in Singapore September 29-October 4 has been awarded to Geoffroy Peeters and Xavier Rodet for their paper entitled, "Signal-based Music Structure Discovery for Music Audio Summary Generation."

This award was established in 1995 and has been awarded to the outstanding research paper each year, selected from the highest scored submitted papers for the ICMC conference. An additional small committee of readers, this year headed by Perry Cook of Princeton University, then selects the final winning paper, which will be published in revised form in the Swets and Zeitlinger Journal of New Music Research.

ICMA announces Best Presentation Award for ICMC 2003

The Best Presentation at the International Computer Music Conference in Singapore September 29-October 4 has been awarded to Ge Wang of Princeton University, for his presentation of "ChucK: A Concurrent, On-the-fly, Audio Programming Language"

The award was created in 2000 for appreciating and recognizing outstanding research presentations made at ICMC on the basis of the actual sounds and music demonstrated at the conference. The selection is made by ballots cast by attendees at the conference presentations.

Eric Siday Musical Creativity Award

The ICMA is proud to announce the 2003 recipient of the Eric Siday Musical Creativity Award, established by the Eric and Edith Siday Charitable Foundation.

The award is granted annually to a composer up to age 40, on the basis of an original work displaying the following criteria: i) Standard of musical excellence and craft; ii) Spirit of experimentation and adventure; iii) Sensitivity to the electro-acoustic domain; iv) Willingness to explore broader musical styles and v) Openness to environmental design concepts and ways of expanding the public audience for electro acoustic music.

2003 Recipient: Heinrich Taube (University of Illinois)
Composition: Aeolian Harp (for piano and computer-generated tape)

Heinrich Taube's moving twenty-two minute work was performed by pianist Albert Tiu at the 2003 International Computer Music Conference recently hosted by the National University of Singapore's Conservatory of Music. The composition is a stunning tribute to the composer's sister, Marianne Christine Taube, who died in 1997 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Mary Simoni, President of the International Computer Music Association says, "Taube's piece is a brilliant portrayal of the grief, suffering and ultimate resignation that accompanies the death of a loved one. The composition communicates an inner peace that reveals the bittersweet credence of human mortality."

The Eric Siday Musical Creativity Award carries a cash prize of $1,000 and a generous travel subsidy for the composer to attend the International Computer Music Conference.

Panel of Judges:

• Dr. Daniel Oppenheim (Siday Foundation/ICMA)
• Mr. Stephen Horenstein (Siday Foundation)
• Ms. Mary Simoni (ICMA)

The Eric and Edith Siday Charitable Foundation was established in 1997 in memory of composer Eric Siday and his wife Edith. Eric Siday was a prolific composer, best known for bringing new electronic sounds to a wider audience through the television medium, particularly with his "invention" of the sound logo and Musical Rorschach test. Many of his logos and commercials became an everyday part of American culture (Maxwell House coffee percolator; ABC-TV logo; Westinghouse, to name a few). His experimentation in electro acoustic sound potentials led him to commission Robert Moog to invent and build the first percussion synthesizer. In addition, he was deeply interested in environmental uses of sound, as well as education.

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