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Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.
EMPACs building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivaled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.
I am a librarian and we have the original CD-ROM in our library. I would prefer to refer students to this online version but can you just confirm that the original rights holders granted permission for this version to be made available on RU-vid?
Amazing tutorial, thanks for sharing these sessions. Been working with SPAT revolution for a couple of years and just discovered this beautiful package. I'll be using it for my show next week !
Thank you for this upload! I am really happy to see some of these reparative listtenings of Reich's music after hearing of some off-color comments that he made.
I'm struck by the condescending tone and content of the second speaker Johannes Goebel. Is he German, instead of lacing his content with Imperial, Empire to describe concert halls, perhaps he should have been fair and balanced and used worlds like "The Reich" just to be fair.
W O W - Missing Wendy Carlos in todays political backlash against us is telling. The whole point of the Doc is lost by doing that. I can hear Sylvia Rivera screaming in Central Park at all of you right now
I just watched the documentary. And I noticed that even tho Wendy is shown in the movie, she is not shown on the credits... There is a part where they put all the 'featuring' women, but Wendy is not there... like ??
Why not have a documentary about electronic music? Why does it have to be a man hating show about women who show nothing but disrespect for all of the ground work that was laid out before them? And I have two albums by Walter Carlos. He was a man. I don’t care what he is now, but I’m not the one who released his work as a man. He did. It is sickening to try to change the history of what was what at the time. As a matter of fact, on the back of his album cover for By Request, it refers to him many times in the masculine. I have no problem recognizing women for their accomplishments, but it’s a terrible thing for them to disrespect the very people who allowed them to achieve their success. It’s also a terrible thing to re-write history into something that wasn’t true.
This is the full documentation of what is contained on the original CD-ROM. Even if you find the original CD-ROM, you can only play it back on an "old Mac" under Mac OS9 (or on an emulator like SheepShaver). We made this video capture so the material of the CD-ROM would be again available as a documentation.
Love it 👽 I so enjoyed seeing women doing their electronic thing in the little fests I would play in in the DC Baltimore area some years ago. I'd been experimenting with guitars, later synth (once I could afford one), beginning around 1976, bc I saw the possibilities of all sounds since youth. Cheers to all experimenting 🎃
very interesting, the camera work & editing of the doc-- these places we dont' usually see in the building, then they emerge 'onstage' as instruments... can only imagine what it might be like live-- is the audience gonna be in the seats, or is the performance for camera? I should probably read the descript in full shoudn't I... ANyway I hope you guys document the hell out of this thing and post it online!
This is a documentary about women. They did mention Walter, but there were a lot of men who were great pioneers of music. I just thought it was sickening the disrespect this program gave toward men by saying these women didn’t want the dead men’s notes. Those dead men laid the foundation and the groundwork to make this possible both in the realm of music, and in electronics.
I guess both the technology and realistic use cases weren't around back in the 1970s, when the physical principles were discovered and mathematical expressions were created. Now we have the opportunity to use computer hardware and software to realise the potential of Ambisonic recording. I guess the next step in technology is to record whole environments from multiple perspectives, not just a single perspective (as with Ambisonics), so they can be accurately rendered by 3D applications, with accurate acoustic properties encoded. Being able to move around in a 3D environment, hearing the subtle changes in reverberation and reflections would be amazing, especially if there was a pre-recorded performance in a venue. Thanks so much for posting this presentation. I love this kind of stuff!
THANK YOU! Can't wait to see the movie. I'm always researching about female electronic music composers and there isn't much information available. I would like to know more about our grandmothers, mothers and sisters in music. I think it's important to know where we come from and the contribution of women in electronic music and at a theoretical level as well. How came almost no one know that the Doctor Who theme song was made by a woman? Have you considered making a website with this information that could be updated over time? I was watching you watching the chat and so many names popping up!! I would really like that there was a place where we could do some deeper research. And the name "sisters with transistors"!? I definitely want a t-shirt and it's a great name for the website to. Thank you again
Hey, can you tell me how to use the object o.gui.attach in the video? I installed the odot can added the path of the dev file, but I still cannot use it :)
