The Computer Music Center (CMC) at Columbia University is the oldest center for electronic and computer music research in the United States. The Center was founded in the 1950s as the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Computer music is music generated with, or composed with the aid of, computers. ...

The CMC is housed on 125th Street in New York City. It consists of a large graduate research facility specializing in computer music and multimedia research, as well as a number of composition and recording studios for student use. Projects to come out of the CMC since the 1990s include: Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Musical composition is: an original piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance... A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ...

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The Computer Music Center has no degree program of its own, and draws students from throughout the Columbia community, primarily from the departments of music, computer science, electrical engineering, intellectual property law, and psychology. The director of the CMC is Brad Garton, and the CMC offers classes taught by George Lewis, Terry Pender, Douglas Repetto, and R. Luke DuBois, as well as a large number of visiting faculty who give seminars every year. Real-Time Cmix (RTcmix) is one of the MUSIC-N family of computer music programming languages. ... PeRColate is an open source set of extensions to Max/MSP, developed by Dan Trueman at Princeton University and R. Luke DuBois at the Computer Music Center, Columbia University. ... Dorkbot refers to a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that sponsor meetings of artists, engineers, and designers working in the medium of electronic art. ... ArtBots is an annual robot talent show held in New York City. ... Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized and audible sound, though definitions vary. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Electrical engineers design power systems. ... Law (from the late Old English lagu of probable North Germanic origin) in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, intended to provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide... Auguste Rodins The Thinker, bronze cast by Alexis Rudier, Laeken Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium. ... Brad Garton is an American composer and computer musician who is professor of music at Columbia University. ... George Lewis (born 1952) is a jazz trombone player. ... Roger Luke DuBois (born September 10, 1975 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American composer, video artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City. ...

History

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The forerunner of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was a studio founded in the early 1950s by Columbia University professors Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening, and Princeton University professors Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions. Originally concerned with experiments in music composition involving the new technology of reel-to-reel tape, the studio soon branched out into all areas of electronic music research. The Center was officially established with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1959 which was used to finance the acquisition of the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer from its owner, RCA. Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... Vladimir Ussachevsky (Hailar, Manchuria, November 3, 1911 – New York, New York, January 2, 1990) was a composer particularly known for his work in electronic music. ... Otto Luening is an early pioneer of electronic music. ... Princeton University, incorporated as The Trustees of Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution to conduct higher education in the United States. ... Milton Byron Babbitt (born May 10, 1916) is an American composer. ... Roger Sessions (28 December 1896 – 16 March 1985) was an American composer, critic and teacher of music. ... Musical composition is: an original piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance... Tape music is a form of music which began soon after tape recording was invented, as people could now create sounds that were for the first time identical with each performance. ... The Rockefeller Foundation is a charitable organization based in New York City. ... RCA Mark II with Babbit, Mauzey, Ussachevsky The RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer (nicknamed Victor) was the flagship piece of equipment at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. ...

The flagship piece of Center equipment, the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer, was delivered to the Center in 1957 after it was developed to Ussachevsky and Babbitt's specifications. The RCA (and the Center) were re-housed in Prentis Hall, a building off of the main Columbia campus on 125th Street. A number of significant pieces in the electronic music repertoire were realized on the Synthesizer, including Babbitt's Vision and Prayer and Charles Wuorinen's Time's Encomium. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Charles Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938 in New York City) is an American composer. ...

Most of the luminaries in the field of electronic music (and avant-garde music in general) visited, worked, or studied at the Electronic Music Center, including Edgard Varèse, Halim El-Dabh, Bülent Arel, Mario Davidovsky, Charles Dodge, Alice Shields, Wendy Carlos, and Luciano Berio. The Center also acted as a consulting agency for other electronic music studios in the Western Hemisphere, giving them advice on optimum studio design and helping them to purchase equipment, etc. A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Edgar (or Edgard) Varèse (December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer, who moved to the United States in 1915, and took American citizenship in 1926. ... Halim El-Dabh (b. ... Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer. ... Charles Dodge (b. ... Alice Shields (born Alice F. Shields, Manhattan, New York, February 18, 1943) is an American composer. ... Wendy Carlos in 1980 Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos—see Personal life section below—November 14, 1939 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is an American composer and electronic musician. ... Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. ... Management consulting (sometimes also called strategy consulting) refers to both the practice of helping companies to improve performance through analysis of existing business problems and development of future plans, as well as to the firms that specialize in this sort of consulting. ... The geographical western hemisphere of Earth, highlighted in yellow. ...

The staff engineers at the Center under Peter Mauzey developed a large variety of customized equipment designed to solve the needs of the composers working at the center. These include early prototypes of tape delay machines, quadraphonic mixing consoles, and analog triggers designed to facilitate interoperability between other (often custom-made) synthesizer equipment. The Center also had a large collection of Buchla, Moog, and Serge Modular synthesizers. Peter Mauzey is an electrical engineer associated with the development of electronic music in the 1950s and 1960s at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. ... Tape delay, also often referred to as analog delay, is an audio effect whereby an echo can be introduced to an audio signal by mixing it with a delayed version of itself. ... Quadraphonic sound uses four channels in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other. ... Trigger may refer to: Trigger, a mechanism to actuate the following devices gun crossbow animal trap Trigger, the cause of an event Triggering the precipitation of a dissolved material in a supersaturated solution Triggering an allergic reaction by exposure to an allergen Trigger, a thought, experience or an event that... Interoperability can be defined in a technical way or in a broad way, taking into account social, political and organizational factors. ... The Buchla Modular Synthesizer Created by engineer Don Buchla with the help of Ramon Sender and composer Morton Subotnick, it was the first portable sound synthesizing device. ... Bob Moog Dr Robert A. Moog (born May 23, 1934) is the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. ...

By the late 1970s the Electronic Music Center was rapidly nearing obsolescence as the classical analog tape techniques it used were being surpassed by parallel work in the field of computer music. By the mid 1980s the Columbia and Princeton facilities had ceased their formal affiliation, with the Princeton music department strengthening its affiliation with Bell Labs and founding a computer music studio under Godfrey Winham and Paul Lansky (see Princeton Sound Lab). An analog or analogue signal is any continuously variable signal. ... Computer music is music generated with, or composed with the aid of, computers. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Paul Lansky (born 1944) is one of the original electronic music or computer music composers who has been producing works from the seventies right up to the present day (see discography, below). ... The Princeton Sound Lab is a research laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, in collaboration with the Department of Music. ...

The original Columbia facility was re-organized in 1995 under the leadership of Brad Garton and was renamed the Columbia University Computer Music Center. Brad Garton is an American composer and computer musician who is professor of music at Columbia University. ...

External links

• Columbia history of the Electronic Music Center
• Ohm Site on the Electronic Music Center
• The Computer Music Center, Columbia University
• Princeton Sound Lab