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Music I MACHINES 50 Years of Music & Technology @MIT February 5, 2011 All events take place on the 6th Floor of the MIT Media Lab Discussions/presentations/panels (9:00am - 5:00 pm) All panelists/speakers are either MITfaculty or current/former students at MIT. 9:00-9:45a Keynote: Music Technology and MIT Max Mathews ("Father of Computer Music") 9:45-10:30a The Dawn ofDigital Music at MIT in the 1960s Prof. Joe Paradiso, moderator; Peter Samson, Wayne Slawson, Chris Strangio 10:30-11:00a Coffee Break 11:00-11:45a The MIT Experimental Music Studio and Live Computer Performance Barry Vercoe (MIT) and Miller Puckette (UCSD, inventor of MAX/MSP, pd, etc.) 11:45-12:30p Opera, Collaboration, and (Sometimes) Serendipity Prof. Tod Machover and team from Death and the Powers, including Ben Bloomberg, Peter Torpey and Elly Jessop 12:30-1:00p The ManualInput Sessions Performance by Golan Levin 1:00-2:00p Lunch Break 2:00-2:45p Music, Mind and Meaning Prof. Marvin Minsky, in "musical" conversation with Teresa Marrin, Mary Farbood and Mike Hawley 3:00-3:45p Music, Emotion and Health Prof. Tod Machover, moderator; Robert Rowe (NYU), Mary Farbood (NYU), Adam Boulanger (MIT Media Lab), Gottfried Schlaug (Harvard Medical School) 4:00-4:45p From Prototypes to the Populace: MIT spinoffs in music and technology Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe, moderator; Eran Egozy (co-founder of Harmonix and co- inventor of Guitar Hero), Brian Whitman (Echo Nest), Mark Ethier (iZotope) Informal demos. installations, performances (6:00 - 8:00 pm) • Andrew McPherson (Drexel University) - Magnetic Resonator Piano [in E15 Lower Level Atrium] • Joe Paradiso (MIT Media Lab) Mammoth Modular Synthesizer • Minsky MUSE Synthesizer (only working model of 1960s automated composition generating machine) • Rob Morris (MIT Media Lab) — iPhone Guitar • Harmonix — Rock Band 3 with new Fender Squier and Mustang Guitar Controllers • Miller Puckette (UCSD) - latest and greatest MAX/MSP and pd extensions/demos • Adam Boulanger (MIT Media Lab) - Musical Early Detection System for Alzheimer's disease • Echo Nest demo • iZotope demo • Sourcetone demo Concert (8:00 - 10:30 pm) • Barry Vercoe - Synapse (1976) for amplified viola and prerecorded electronics • Richard Boulanger/Vercoe - Synaptogenesis (Synapse remix, 2011) for live electronics • Keeril Makan - Zones d'Accord (2002) for cello solo (acoustic although based on electronics) • Peter Whincop - New Work (2011) for live electronics • Evan Ziporyn - Belle Labs (2006) for violin, bass clarinet and Heliphon (from Ensemble Robot) • Robert Rowe - Cigar Smoke (2004) for clarinet and interactive electronics • Mary Farbood - New Work (2011) for piano, composed with Hyperscore software • Tod Machover - Spheres and Splinters (2010) for hypercello and interactive visuals For further information, please contact Simone Ovsev. Associate Producer, FAST Festival EFTA00698870