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• CRCA Researcher and Visual Arts Faculty member, Adriene Jenik was featured alongside her current research project, SPECFLIC, in the Union Tribune on Dec. 31, 2006 in an article entitled, “In ‘Social Cinema,’ You Have a Role.” The author, James Herbert, discusses the theories behind the project as well as the possibility that it may be featured overseas. For more information on this article please visit http://www.uniontribune.com.
• posted on: January 11, 2007
• Diana Deutsch and Trevor Henthorn’s critique of the article “Early Childhood Music Education and Predisposition to Absolute Pitch: Teasing Apart Genes and Environment” by Peter K. Gregersen, et al [2000] received validation through its publication in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. By reanalyzing the Gregersen data, upon which the argument of the aforementioned article is based, they showed that Absolute Pitch is related to Tone Language, not genetics. Their work on the relationship between genetics and Absolute Pitch is now considered to be among the leading research on the subject and serves as a valuable reference for geneticists.
• posted on: December 19, 2006
• In his lecture at MLAC, Eduardo Navas will present some of his art, theory and criticism focused on culture and media at large. He will also dicuss his recent research on Remix as a cultural activity affecting curatorial practice and present examples of New Media projects that challenge the way curators approach contemporary art.
  

• CREATE @ ICMC 2006 The CREATE department's contributions to this years International Computer Music Conference were many and varied. The contributors consisted of the UCSB CREATE Signal Libary (CSL) group; Graham Wakefield; Dan Overholt; John Thompson; and others. Summaries of the work done by the groups are presented below. The UCSB CSL group presented a long-format paper co-written by Stephen Pope, Xavier Amatriain, Lance Putnam, Jorge Castellanos, and Ryan Avery. The topic was the design and metamodels used in CSL version 4, and the abstract can be found at the "more information" link below. Graham Wakefield - Third-Order Ambisonic Extensions for Max/MSP with Musical Applications Dan Overholt - Musical Interaction Design with the CREATE USB Interface: Teaching HCI with CUIs instead of GUIs John Thompson and Dan Overholt - "Sonofusion: for Overtone Violin" more information CLAM wins the 2006 ACM Open Source Multimedia Contest! It is our pleasure to announce that CLAM has won the 2006 ACM Open Source Multimedia Contest. According to the jury, "CLAM is a remarkably comprehensive system with impressive capabilities." The award was presented in the recent ACM Multimedia Conference. The ACM Open Source Competition is a prestigious international contest that is now in its third year. Last year, for instance, the award was given to the OpenVidia library for GPU accelerated Computer Vision. CLAM is coordinated by Xavier Amatriain at the University of California, Santa Barbara but is mostly developed at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain) by a team led by Pau Arumi and David Garcia. CLAM is now being developed thanks to a grant from the STSI at the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya). This award culminates 5 years of ongoing research and development and the authors wish to thank all the past developers as well as all of our users and people who have given support throughout these years. For more information on the Open Source Multimedia Contest, please visit http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/opensource.html. For more information on the ACM Multimedia Conference, please visit http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/. For more information on the OpenVidia library, please visit http://openvidia.sourceforge.net/. more information Timothy Beutler appointed as CREATE Technical Coordinator Timothy Beutler has been appointed as the Technical Coordinator for CREATE. As such he will be mainly responsible for managing CREATE facilities and events. more information New Allosphere Website The Allosphere, probably the most ambitious project that CREATE has ever been involved has a new website. We believe the new website is much better in showing the scope of the project and all its implications. Please visit it at http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/allosphere Xavier Amatriain Associate Editor of EURASIP JASMP Xavier Amatriain has been appointed as associate director of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. The goal of the journal is to bring together researchers and engineers working on the theory and applications of Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. EURASIP JASMP will be an interdisciplinary journal for the dissemination of all basic and applied aspects of these topics. more information Clarence Barlow Appointed Corwin Endowed Chair of Composition The Music Department at the University of California , Santa Barbara , is honored and delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Clarence Barlow as the new Corwin Endowed Chair of Composition, beginning in fall, 2006. more information Stephen Travis Pope's Music on DVD "Leur Songe de la Paix" Music video by R. Lane Clark and Stephen Travis Pope Released by HeavenEverywhere "Leur Songe de la Paix (Their Dream of Peace)" -- DVD music video by R. Lane Clark (images) and Stephen Travis Pope (music) based on a text by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Production by HeavenEverywhere, Santa Barbara -- 2002-05 -- 13:00 minutes. Distributed by the Gandhi & King Season for Nonviolence and the Association for Global New Thought. Available through the King Center Bookstore, Atlanta dogaclamafestivali.info -improvisations festival- ................. 24-28.011.07 got realized in istanbul successfully with experimental aspirations of new and recent music groups for 5 long days - these groups played for average one hour durations on workshop spirits primarily for themselves and half full audiences as well - these performances somehow are not rare at odd dates for istanbul during the last 3 or 4 recent years... this time ayse tutuncu play ed 2 times w different side men... many drummers and percussion men ( like Ozum Usta and Korhan Arguder) criss crossed several times on drum ballads... solo performances of larry dilmen vere creative on drums and keyboards and computers... murat taner the master producer of this "IMPROVISATIONS FESTIVAL" he launched again his routine production wonderfully, of ORNETTE ORNETTE whereabouts featuring as always half a dozen horn men doing free simultaneous phrasings on ornette standards next to rhythm sections... the festival initialed with a theoretical electronic music report by a msu conservatoire scholar ILKE BORAN, another interesting rock concert was SIYASIYA BAND which I both attended and recorded the show which lasted also the usual one hour long period... I myself showed along a standard duration my own -multimedia dvd's from a 20 yrs ancient huseyin ertunc trio disk track trio clip as he himself was present there... then a dvd of 2 tracks from ilhan mimaroglu archive bleakers street 7.53, last largo 9.35 our expectations are hopefully will be to see some recordings from this festival's possible archive ... visual arts were there a young boy painting during the siyasiyaband concert and nurdan özçin doing video animations with larry dilmen and other musician concert were really great ... as I hear from all they said the final day of the festival gor expanded until next morning 4 a.m. teoman madra spq@tnn.net ... ........... festival: info@dogaclamafestivali.info http://www.dogaclamafestivali.info/dogaclama/index.html http://www.dogaclamafestivali.info/dogaclama/program1.html ......... http://www.dogaclamafestivali.info/dogaclama/program2.html ......... http://www.dogaclamafestivali.info/dogaclama/program3.html ......... http://www.dogaclamafestivali.info/dogaclama/program4.html ......... http://www.dogaclamafestivali.info/dogaclama/program5.html GOOD NEWS this FESTIVAL WILL CONTINUE. WITH THE COMING OCCASIONS