[spectre] CAS February Meeting, Peter Zinovieff

[Paul Brown]

The Computer Arts Society is please to announce its first talk
for this New Year featuring the computer music pioneer Peter
Zinovieff.  The talk will be held at our new venue - the London
Knowledge Lab.  Please note we have also changed our meetings to
'the first Wednesday of the month!'


Wednesday 4 February 2009
6:30 for 7:00pm
London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education
23 - 29 Emerald St
London WC1N 3QS, England
Tube:  Holborn, Russell Square or Chancery Lane
Map:   http://tinyurl.com/6h5cds

Peter Zinovieff
Music and Geology or Geology, Electronic Music and Opera?

The talk is about three enterprises of excellence that I have
been intimately involved in. I describe my making the first
geological map of the Cuillins mountains in Skye (1958), the
problems of my early computers (1960’s) in electronic music
contrasted to some present day experiments (2008), and the
preparation of my libretto for “The Mask of Orpheus” (1984)  by
Birtwistle.

I show that these wildly different endeavours are not so
dissimilar when it comes down to the nuts and bolts of their
actual creation.

The lecture of 40 minutes is accompanied by archive videos,
sounds and slides, as well as a display of rocks, pictures and
electronic objects.


Peter Zinovieff is a pioneer of electronic and computer music.
He is a British inventor of Russian ethnicity, most notable for
his EMS company, which made the famous VCS3 synthesiser in the
late '60s. The synthesiser was used by many early progressive
rock bands such as Pink Floyd and White Noise, Krautrock groups
like Kraftwerk as well as more pop oriented artists, a good
example being David Bowie.

Zinovieff also wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera
The Mask of Orpheus.


CAS 1968-2009 - supporting the Computer Arts for over 40 years
http://www.computer-arts-society.org

Future CAS meetings:

Wed 4 Mar - Francesca Franco
Wed 1 Apr - Joel Pathmore
Wed 6 May - Jorn Ebner

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