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Leonardo Music Journal

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Ephemera

  • "The History of Pea Soup"
    Web publication, 2011.

  • "Semiconducting -- Making Music After The Transistor"
    Notes for a presentation at the Technology and Aesthetics Symposium.
    NOTAM, Oslo, May 2011.

  • "Privacy Issues"
    Liner notes for Privacy Issues, CD by David First
    New York: XI Records, October 2010.

  • "By Hand"
    Audio recording of keynote address delivered at the NIME 2010 Conference, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, June 2010. Recorded and produced by Cathy Peters at the radio division of the Australia Broadcast Corporation (broadcast September 2011.)

  • "Epiphanies: Alvin Lucier's Vespers"
    The Wire, February 2010.

  • "Hacking the CD Player"
    Web publication, 2009.

  • "Before Apple There Was Kim -- the Microcomputer, Music and Me"
    Web publication, 2009.

  • "A Brief History of the 'Backwards Electric Guitar'"
    Web publication, 2009.

  • "The Evolution of 'Trombone-Propelled Electronics'"
    Web publication, 2009.

  • "Some Notes on the History of Devil's Music""
    From the booklet accompanying the CD re-release of Devil's Music, EM Records, 2009.

  • "A Solder's Tale -- Putting the 'Lead' Back in Lead Users"
    IEEE Pervasive Computing -- Special Issue on The Hacking Tradition: Lead Users in Pervasive Computing, July-Sept. 2008.

  • "The Electron Buddy System"
    Artistic Bedfellows -- History and Discourse in Collaborative Art Practices
    Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2008.

  • "Live Electronic Music"
    The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music
    Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  • "Searching For The Perfect Beep -- A Personal History Of Hardware Hacking"
    Experimental Media Arts. x-med-a. Brussels, 2006.

  • "A Call For Silence"
    Introduction to A Call For Silence (CD & book). Sonic Arts UK. London, 2004.

  • "Remixing the Remix -- Oder Wie Man Am Richtigen Ort Zur Falschen Zeit Sein Kann -- Zweimal"
    Material re Material (remix and copyright) -- Texte und Statements des Symposions zur Sonic Arts Lounge, MaerzMusik 2003
    Berliner Festspiele 2004.

  • "Sound For Picture: Teaching Music in Art School"
    Keynote address, Leeds Music Technology Conference, October 2003.

  • "My First Sony"
    Positionen 56 (August 2003).
    English version

  • "Of Mice And Men"
    New Music Box (on-line journal of The American Music Center), October 2002.

  • "All This And Brains Too -- Thirty Years of Howling Round"
    Resonance Magazine Vol. 9 No. 2 (2002).

  • "Cage En Mi Vida, La Jaula En Mi Vida" ("The Cage in My Life")
    Experimenta 2000, Buenos Aires, 2000.
    English version

  • "The Sound or Music"
    Bilder-Verbot und Verlangen in Kunst und Musik
    ORF Musikprotokoll, Saarbrücken: PFAU Verlag, 2000.
    English version

  • "Beim nächsten Ton ist es..." ("At The Tone The Time Will Be...")
    Musik im Dialog III -- Klangkunst -- Musiktheater (Jaarbuch der Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik 1999).
    Saarbrücken: PFAU Verlag, 2000.
    English version

  • "Ubiquitous Electronics -- Technology and Live Performance 1966-1996"
    Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 8 (1998).

  • "Schlicht unlogisch - Geheimnisse der Verstärkung" (a tribute to David Tudor)
    MusikTexte 69/70 (Spring 1997).
    English version

  • "Zwischen 'data' und 'date': Erfahrungen mit Proto-Web Musik von The Hub" ("The Fly in the Ointment: Proto-Web Music by the Hub")
    Positionen 31 (May 1997).
    English version

  • "0000000000000000 to 1111111111111111"
    Liner notes for Músiques Submergides, CD accompanying Músiques Submergides festival in Barcelona, 1993. CD and festival produced by Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de Cultura. In English and Catalan.

  • "Searching For The Perfect Beep -- What Has The Computer Done For Working Musicians?"
    Catalog for Tijdkring Contemporary Music Festival, The Hague and Amsterdam, 1995.

  • "Low Brass: The Evolution of Trombone-Propelled Electronics"
    Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 1 (1991).

  • "Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room"
    Liner notes for the CD I am sitting in a room, Alvin Lucier
    New York: Lovely Music, 1990.

  • "Imaginary Landscape -- Electronics and Live Performance, 1989 and 1939"
    Paper for Audio Arts Symposium, Linz, Austria, 1988.

  • "Envelope Follower Circuit"
    Electronotes Vol. 7, #60 (December, 1975).