From keshvani at leoalmanac.org Mon Jun 30 20:11:14 2008 From: keshvani at leoalmanac.org (Nisar Keshvani, LEA) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:11:14 +0100 Subject: [LEAuthors] LEA Vol 15 No 11: LMJ Special - My Favorite Supplement: The Joy of the Gizmo In-Reply-To: <5d60ab0c0806301708r1a675066g9a3b6d8f5e2b5511@mail.gmail.com> References: <5d60ab0c0806301708r1a675066g9a3b6d8f5e2b5511@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5d60ab0c0806301711q15d025b6t389b49b2d0a5f1c9@mail.gmail.com> If unable to view, please visit: http://leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_15/lea_v15_n11_12/home.asp - [image: Leonardo Electronic Almanac] 2008 v o l 1 5 i s s u e 11 [image: Figure 1: Mincer, John Richards, 2006.] *Figure 1: Mincer, John Richards, 2006.* Copyright (c) John Richards 01 e d i t o r's n o t e Nisar Keshvani 02 g u e s t e d i t o r i a l My Favorite Supplement: The Joy of the Gizmo 03 e s s a y s LEA - LMJ 17 Special Essays 04 g a l l e r y Multimedia Performances 05 r e s o u r c e s LEA Open Call for Submissions 06 a n n o u n c e m e n t s :: LMJ 17 and CD Table of Contents :: LMJ 18 Forthcoming Issue Editor in chief Nisar Keshvani announces the LEA - LMJ - My Favorite Supplement: The Joy of the Gizmo . In this installment, a sensational combo of words, sound and image arrive to celebrate gizmos of all makes and kinds (supplementing the last issue of Leonardo Music Journal). This collection of essays features J. Anthony Allen (on virtuosity and longevity in electronic instrument design), J.R. Ferguson and Paul Bell (on the role of ambiguity in musical creativity), Jason Freeman (on *Glimmer*, a composition for chamber orchestra and audience participation), Simon Katan (on his use of "junk" instruments), Han-earl Park (on his work with the interactive, semi-autonomous, non-human musician "io"), Martin Parker (on his adaptation of an inexpensive gaming interface to a sound-making tool), John R. Richards (on the appropriation of found objects and do-it-yourself [DIY] electronics in creation of "the Mincer"), Paul Stapleton (on a new series of musical instruments and his approach to the instrument-performer relation in improv) and Mario van Horrick (on his fascination for acoustic feedback) . For your listening pleasure, check out audio works by Han-earl Park and Mario van Horrik. Also in this issue, LEA presents an index of our 2007 authors plus a run-down of the contents of LMJ17 (My Favorite Things: The Joy of the Gizmo). Happy reading, listening and viewing! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/leaauthors/attachments/20080701/62823ad3/attachment.htm