Cort Lippe, composer-in-residence

Cort Lippe is a leading figure in the field of interactive computer music. He studied composition and computer music with Larry Austin in the USA. He also followed composition and analysis seminars with various composers including Boulez, Donatoni, K. Huber, Messiaen, Penderecki, Stockhausen, and Xenakis. From 1980-83 he studied and worked in The Netherlands, at the Instituut voor Sonologie with G.M. Koenig and Paul Berg in the fields of computer and formalized music. From 1983-1994 he lived in France where he worked for three years at the Centre d’Etudes de Mathematique et Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu), founded by Iannis Xenakis, while following Xenakis’ courses on acoustics and formalized music at the University of Paris. Subsequently, he worked for nine years at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), founded by Pierre Boulez, where he gave courses on new technology in composition, and developed real-time computer music applications. His research includes more than 35 peer-reviewed publications on interactive music, granular sampling, score following, spectral processing, FFT-based spatial distribution/delay, acoustic instrument parameter mapping, and instrument design. His compositions have received numerous international prizes, and he has written for many internationally acclaimed new music soloists and ensembles. His music has been performed at over 100 peer-reviewed and 150 invited festivals worldwide and his works are recorded on more than 30 CDs. As a teacher, Lippe has given over 100 presentations and guest lectures around the world, and has been a visiting professor at universities and conservatories in Japan, Denmark, Austria, Greece, and the USA. He was a recipient of a Fulbright Award in 2009 where he spent six months teaching and doing research at the National and Kapodistiran University of Athens, Greece. Since 1994 he has taught in the Department of Music of the University at Buffalo, New York where he is an associate professor of composition and director of the Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios.

Chamber Cartel, special guest ensemble

The Chamber Cartel is a group of adventurous musicians located in Atlanta dedicated to propagating New and Experimental music. Chamber Cartel was born out of the idea that contemporary classical and experimental music should have a more substantial presence in the Atlanta music scene. Our first concert season, spanning all of 2012, will feature living composers as well as composers of the last half of the 20th century. Our aim is to perform this music in various settings for those that might not have heard or even known of music of this type existing.

Visiting members of Chamber Cartel are:
Caleb Herron, percussion
Amy O’Dell, piano