Leonardo Music Journal

with Compact Disk

Volume 7 (1997)

December 1997/January 1998

Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ) is a print journal, published annually with an accompanying compact disk. LMJ is edited by Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and published by the MIT Press. Subscriptions and individual issues can be ordered from the MIT Press.

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ISSUE CONTENTS

Editorial

Nicolas Collins: A Turn in the Shrubbery---Music, Technology and Words


Artists' Articles

Flo Menezes: To Be and Not To Be: Aspects of the Interaction Between Instrumental and Electronic Compositional Methods

Bill Thibault and Scot Gresham-Lancaster: Experiences in Digital Terrain: Using Digital Elevation Models as Determinants for Musical Composition



General Article

Kevin Holm-Hudson: Quotation and Context: Sampling and John Oswald's Plunderphonics



Technical Article

Bruno Degazio: The Evolution of Musical Organisms


Theoretical Perspective

David Rosenboom: Propositional Music: On Emergent Properties in Morphogenesis and the Evolution of Music, Part II: Imponderable Forms and Compositional Methods


Special Section: Conference Papers from the Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 96)

Sean Cubitt: Online Sound and Virtual Architecture (Contribution to the Geography of Cultural Translation)

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Machine Learning and Sound Design: A Case Study



CD Companion

Larry Polansky: Cocks Crow, Dogs Bark: New Compositional Intentions

Nick Didkovsky: Metamusic/Metatext: The Blurry Boundaries Around Distributed Compositional Systems

Gordon Monro: This Is Art, Not Science

Contributors' Notes: Charles Ames, Warren Burt, David Feldman, Daniel Goode, Mary Simoni, Laurie Spiegel, Christian Wolff



Music/Science Forum

Jody Diamond: Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival 1997



Artist's Statement

Jacob Duringer: The Evolution of the Musical Keyboard



Reviews

Marc Battier, Patrick Lambelet


1997 Index






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