Welcome speech by Dr Richard Boulanger for the Bohlen-Pierce Symposium in Boston, March, 2010.
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See http://www.huygens-fokker.org/bpsite/ for a history of the Bohlen-Pierce Scale.
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RICHARD BOULANGER was born in 1956 and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Music from the University of California at San Diego. There he worked at the Center for Music Experiments Computer AudioResearch Lab (CARL) and composed the first ever CMUSIC composition entitled Two Movements in C. Since then, he has continued his computer music research at Bell Labs, CCRMA, The MIT Media Lab, Interval Research, Analog Devices, and IBM. He has collaborated, concertized, lectured, and published extensively with Max Mathews (Radio Baton), Barry Vercoe (Extended Csound & most recently on the $100 OLPC laptop http://laptop.org), and John ffitch (Csound5). Boulanger has premiered his original interactive compositions at the Kennedy Center and appeared onstage performing his Radio-Baton and MIDI PowerGlove concerto with The Krakow Philharmonic and The Moscow Symphony.
His music is recorded on the NEUMA, Centaur, and Stanford University labels (http://csounds.com/boulanger). Boulanger has been teaching at The Berklee College of Music for more than 23 years now, and his students are all over TV, Radio, Computer Games, Films. Currently, Boulanger is a Professor of Electronic Production and Design. His contributions and work have been recognized and honored with Berklees Faculty of the Year Award and previosuly with the Presidents Award. He has published articles on computer music education and composition in major electronic music and music technology magazines, and has lectured worldwide. For the MIT Press, Boulanger has authored and edited The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing and Programming. For the past ten years, and with contributions from a number of the leading teachers, researchers, and programmers in the world, Boulanger has been working on another major textbook for MIT Press (3000+ pages) which will be out in the summer of 2010 and which is called The Audio Programming Book.
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Bohlen-Pierce Scale Symposium, Boston 2010
There has been enough interest lately in the Bohlen-Pierce Scale - a macrotonal musical tuning system based on a 3/1 frame (three times the frequency, called a "tritave", as opposed to the 2/1 "octave") divided by 13 equal steps - that an entire symposium was organized in Boston. It included the support of three major music educational institutions - Berklee College of Music, the Goethe Institute and New England Conservatory. Heinz Bohlen and Max Mathews skyped in at various times. It included three full days of talks and three full nights of music. I will type more information here soon and upload more videos as I get them digitized. Professional cameras were covering the entire symposium. Here I will just upload what I captured on my own camera. This symposium was very overwhelming for me, thinking I was among just a handful of interested BP fans. There were at least 40 people actively involved in this event and many more in the audience! See also: http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/schedule and http://bohlen-pierce-conference.org/concert-1
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