Current Projects and Research
Computer Music Performance Interface Design
- Interactive Event Manager (IEM): a system for linking processing modules in a scriptable, event-driven environment. Presented at SEAMUS 2007. Updated for SEAMUS 2008 presentations with Dr. Andrew Walters, and scheduled for a demonstration session on Friday August 15, 2009 (@ 15:30) at ICMC in Montreal, QC.
- Thea Musgrave's Narcissus for flute or clarinet and digital delay
- Jonathan Kramer's RENASCENCE [1974] originally for B-flat clarinet, tape delay system, and prerecorded tape
- IEM version under development (2009).
- Presented in performance and as a paper at the 2006 Spark Festival (Minneapolis).
- Described in chapter 7 of my dissertation.
- Bruce Pennycook's PRAESCIO IV [1990] originally for B-flat clarinet and "MIDI Live" system
- IEM version under development (2009).
- Presented in performance at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland in 2006
- Presented as part of my DMA lecture-recital at the University of Arizona, 2004
- Described in chapter 6 & 10 of my dissertation.
- Cort Lippe's Music for Clarinet and ISPW [1992] originally for B-flat clarinet and ISPW system
- IEM version under development (2009).
- Described in chapter 8 of my dissertation.
DMA Dissertation: University of Arizona, August 2004
Publications
- Paper given at the 2007 SEAMUS conference in Ames, IA on my new strategy for designing interactive performance systems: "Building A Sustainable Repertoire: A Performer's Approach to Realizing Interactive Electroacoustic Works." or get it from the SEAMUS web site: pdf
- Article in Organised Sound, December 2006: "A model for the conservation of interactive electroacoustic repertoire: analysis, reconstruction, and performance in the face of technological obsolescence"
Organised Sound (2006), 11: 273-284 Cambridge University Press
- Paper on Jonathan Kramer's RENASCENCE [1974], originally for B-flat clarinet, tape delay system, and prerecorded tape, presented at the 2006 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: "Performing Jonathan Kramer's RENASCENCE"
- Paper on Analysis and reconstruction of the digital delay system for Thea Musgrave's Narcissus presented at the 2004 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Miami: "Analysis and Reconstruction of Interactive Electroacoustic Works for Obsolete Technology: Thea Musgrave’s Narcissus"
Copyright 2007 David Brooke Wetzel