Composite Moments: Augmented reality (before image, with image)

An augmented reality system can be viewed as a collection of related reference frames. Good registration in which a synthetic image appears over a real scene requires representation of the two images in the same frame of reference. Interactive computer music systems and their players do this without image and have been for a long time. This duo concert matches our own experiences in a world populated with acoustic, pseudo-acoustic and synthetic instruments. Three video pieces on the program add a dimension of visible motion to this theme of composited gesture.

Chris Chafe - Celleto and live electronics

Roberto Morales Manzanares - Flutes, Piano and live electronics

Bio - Chris Chafe

Chafe is a composer/ cellist / music researcher with an interest in computer music composition and interactive performance. He has been a long-term denizen of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University where he directs the center and teaches computer music courses. His doctorate in music composition was completed at Stanford in 1983 with prior degrees in music from the University of California at San Diego and Antioch College. Two year-long research periods were spent at IRCAM, and the Banff Center for the Arts developing methods for computer sound synthesis based on physical models of musical instrument mechanics. Current projects include the "SoundWIRE" experiments for musical collaboration and network evaluation using high-speed internets for high-quality sound. He has performed his music in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and composed soundtracks for documentary films. Two recent discs of his works are available from Centaur Records. In Spring 2001, a collaboration with artist Greg Niemeyer entitled Ping was exhibited at SF MOMA and online via the Walker Art Center. A second collaboration, Oxygen Flute, was created for the San Jose Museum of Art. A CD of music from both installations is also available. "Organum" is their present project, a completely synthetic animation being developed for digital planetariums and individual game play.

Bio- Roberto Morales

As a composer, he has written music for theatre, dance, movies, TV and radio, been commissioned and participated in festivals in Europe, US, Mexico and Latin-America. As an interpreter, Morales-Manzanares has participated on his own and with other composers in forums of Jazz, Popular, Folkloric and New Music in Mexico, Latin-America, USA and Europe.
As a researcher, he has been invited to different national and international conferences such as ICMC, International Join Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI and Symposium on Arts and Technology and has several publications.
In 1988, he was co-founder of the first computer music studio in Mexico at the Escuela Superior de Musica and in 1992 founder of LIM at the University of Guanajuato. He has organized festivals such as "La Computadora y la Musica", "Callejon del Ruido" and "Nuevos enfoques y expresiones en composición y tecnología". Currently he is member of the "Sistema Nacional de Creadores". His music can be found in ICMC recordings, Victo label www.victo.qc.ca (Leyendas in colaboration with Mari Kimura) and the most recent publications in Computer Music Journal. He is also currently a student of Professors David Wessel and Edmund Campion at CNMAT.

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Saturday, December 13, 2003, 4:00am to 6:00am