This archive is part of El Camino de Silicio, a computer music network to promote computer music in the Americas. For more information contact Robert Willey (bobw@ucsd.edu).
The Nucleo Brasileiro em Computação e Música (NUCOM - Brazilian Computer Music Society) sponsors a symposium in conjunction with the Brazilian Computer Society's annual conference. This fourth symposium (IV Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação e Música) will be held in Brasília in August, 1997.
The Computer Music Journal published two reviews of the first symposium in 19:2 (Summer, 1995) by Jônathas Manzolli
We have begun a text on computer music written in Portuguese.
Jamary Oliveira has been using computers for many years for musical analysis.
He serves on the national research commision Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento
Tecnológico (CNPq). (jamary@sunrnp.ufba.br)
Celso Aguiar, a student of Ernst
Widmer, developed a digital synthesizer project in Bahia (UFBa). He is at CCRMA-Stanford
now, finishing a PhD in Composition. His interests are in composition, synthesis,
dsp and several other fields of computer music research (aguiar@ccrma.stanford.edu).
Un B offers a masters program in music and image.
Aluízio Arcela (arcela@LPE1.cic.unb.br) is a professor in the computer science department and has developed a format for scores and method for realizing them as sounds and/or images. Several of his works are available for inspection.
Conrado Silva is a professor in the music department and teaches electronic music. (conrado@guarany.cpd.unb.br)
Marcio Brandão works in the computer science department with Aluizio. (brandao@cic.unb.br
or @guarany.unb.br)
The fourth NUCOM symposium
was held at UnB in August, 1997.
Maurício Loureiro is a professor in the school of music. He teaches clarinet and coordinates the faculty new music ensemble. (mauricio@dcc.ufmg.br)
Maurício Alves Loureiro Escola de Música Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Av. Afonso Pena 1534 30310-005 Belo Horizonte - MG Brazil
Gilberto Carvalho is a professor in the music department involved with using computers in composition. (agmc@dcc.ufmg.br)
Sergio Freire is a professor whose specialty is algorithmic composition. (anamelia@bhnet.com.br)
Marcos Lacerda is making proposals to develop a studio.
Escola de Communicações e Artes (ECA-ISP) Universidade de São Paulo ae. Jauaperi 1782 04523 São Paulo
Fabio Kon (kon@ime.usp.br) is a professor involved with computer music. The research group for computer music in the computer science department has a world wide web page.
Ruggero Andrea Ruschioni (roger@lsi.usp.br) reports a web site at USP's Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis (Laboratory of Integrated Systems). He says they also have a ftp site with binaries for SGI and the major packages for synthesis. The idea is to provide a site for South America, it should be faster than connecting to the USA, and they will soon have fiber-optical connection to the outer world.
Regis Rossi Alves Faria (regis@lsi.usp.br), one of the researchers at LSI, is working with wavelet theory and its application to signal processing. He is especially interested in the analysis and synthesis of music.
Fernando Iazzetta (iazzetta@exatas.pucsp.br ) is involved with a project in performance.
PUC has over 20 graduate students involved with music technology in the semiotics
department. They have an excellent studio.
The Centro de Documentacão de Música Contemporânea (CDMC) under the direction of José Augusto Mannis has released a wonderful "Guia da música contemporânea Brasileira" 1995 - 1996. It lists performers of contemporary music by instrument type, concert halls, orchestras, festivals, critics, computer music, schools, funding agencies, and publishers. An online version is planned. For more information contact them by email: cdmusica@ccvax.unicamp.b r.
José Augusto Mannis Rua Vitoriano dos Anjos, 507/53 13035-590 Campinas - SP tel: (192) 321503 ramal 29 CDMUSICA@CCVAX.UNIVCAMP.BR tel: (192) 321503 ramal 29 CDMUSICA@CCVAX.UNIVCAMP.BR Centro de Documentacão de Música Contemporânea (CDMC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas Biblioteca Central Caixa Postal 6136 CEP 13.081 Campinas - SP Jônathas Manzolli / Raul do Valle (sound archive) Núcleo Interdisiplinar de Communicação Sonora (HICS) Unicamp (0192) 397923 jonathas@dsif.fee.unicamp.br
Didier Guigue (dguigue@openline.com.br) heads GMT, the Grupo de Pesquisas em Música, Musicologia & Tecnologia. Active as a musicologist, composer, and performer, he moved to Brazil in 1982 where he teaches musical analysis and computer music. He was the coordinator of the third NUCOM symposium.
There is a Computer Music Group Computer Music Group at the Instituto de Informatica formed by Dr. Rosa Viccari. She has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is interested in developing tutorial systems in general, and for music in particular.
Dr. Carlos da Rocha Costa completed his doctorate at UFRGS in 1993. He is interested in algorithmic composition and has done some work on formalisms for music representation.
Eloi Fernando Fritsch (research assistant) finished his Master Degree last year. His dissertation was about a grammar for the composition of Blues. At the moment he is developing the subject of his dissertation further.
Fabio Ghignatti Beckenkamp's (masters student) work involves the development of a neural networks for music analysis. He is interested in composition using the MAX program.
Eduardo Reck Miranda (miranda@music.edinburgh.ac.uk), composer, graduated in both computer science and music. Received a MSc in Music Technology at York University (UK) and a PhD in artificial intelligence applied to music at Edinburgh University. His interests are algorithmic composition and artificial intelligence-aided signal processing. He has done extensive work on the use of cellular automata in both, composition of higher level musical structures and sound synthesis. His PhD work involves the design of an intelligent system for sound synthesis in which the user can produce sound by giving sound descriptions (e.g. adjectives in English) rather than low level streams of parameter values. Nowadays he is developing a project at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre which involves the design of a software for granular synthesis based on a cellular automata.
Raimundo Martins is a professor in the department of music (rmartins@vortex.ufrgs.br).
Celso Loureiro Chaves is a professor of composition who will be on the music committee of NUCOM's second symposium, to be held near Porto Alegre.
Hubertus Hofman is a professor of composition and pianist in the department of music interested in composing with MIDI
Antonio Cunha received his doctorate degree from the University of California, San Diego.
Rodolfo Caesar is a computer musician developing an excellent site at the Laboratory of Music and Technology, located at the Federal University of Rio.
Vania Dantas Leite is a pianist and composer at the University of Rio. She has used electronics often in the past.
The Associação Brasileira de MIDI e Tecnologia Musical (MTM) has a library and activities for its members. Miguel Ratton, an engineer, is President. They are developing an extensive site on MIDI and electronic music.
MTM Rua Mariz e Barros 479, sala 1, Tijuca Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 20270-003
One of NUCOM's instigators, Geber
Ramalho, is on a CNPq scholarship in the computer science department to develop
interactive applications for the network. (glr@di.ufpe.br)
Osman Gioia was one of the organizers of the third NUCOM
symposium. He has developed a recording and production studio in the music department.
Another professor, Paulo Lima (pcl@npd.ufpe.br) has begun a project to publish scores.
Marcos Ribeiro de Moraes teaches at the Centro de Artes - Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo. One of his main interests is the inpact of music technology on music teaching and the new pedagogical and didactical possibilities fostered by the advent of the MIDI and computer resources. Since 1994 he has been using a classroom wich was specifically designed for this end, where MacIntoshes and Keyboards (Roland SC7 plus controllers) are used for his regular music classes.
He also carries on research on the theory of rhythm (his Master's dissertation in linguistics deals with the theory of rhythm both in linguistics and in music theory). His Positional THEORY OF RHYTHM and the POSITIONAL RHYTHMIC NOTATION are described in the Proceedings of the I Brazilian Symposium of Computer Music, 1994. Since the begining of 1995 he works - together with students from the Computer Science Department - on the development of a MIDI sequencer based on the positional theory/notation.
Nucleo de Pesquisa do Centro de Artes Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo Av. Fernando Ferrari S/N 29065 - Vitória, ES Centro de Artes: (027) 227-0798 e-mail: mmoraes@npd1.ufes.br tel/fax (office) 55 027 3352577 tel (home) 55 027 2251995
Helcio Müller is a music professor interested
in computer music applications for performance. He works in early music and composition.
(helcio@sercomtel.com.br)
Victor Lazzarini (victor.lazzarini@lda.palm.com.br) has returned from studying in
England and is at the university on a CNPq schlarship.
The following information was contributed by Martin Fumerola.
EDUARDO BERTOLA: he was born in Argentina but lived for several years in Belo Horizonte. He was Professor of composition and Director of the Electroacoustic Studio of the School of Music of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He died in 1996.
WILSON SUKORSKI: composer, programmer and teacher from Sao Paulo. He developed software for composition envolving fractals and random processes. He is really a "fractal".
LIVIO TRACHTEMBERG: composer from Sao Paulo. He studied electroacoustics with Conrado Silva. His ea works were performed both in Brazil and abroad
AGUSTIN PANTALEAO: composer from Rio de Janeiro. He produced computer music in Rio.
TIM RESCALA: Composer, and Director of idem studio.
RODOLFO COEHLO DE SOUZA: engineer and composer from Sao Paulo. His electroacoustic works were performed in some editions the Sao Paulo Biennal of Art and in the "Musica Nova" Festival. He is currently working on a doctorate degree in composition at the University of Texas in Austin.
Marcelo Paganini is an alternative rock guitarist.
Musician and composer Paulo Motta has
a site for the Group of Sonic Arts,
an historical and aesthetical approach to electronic and electroacoustic Music. It
has links to other sites of interest. (Portuguese/English).
Ciclos is a digital audio production facility in Rio de Janeiro. Fernando Ariani
is on the staff, after having studied at Cal Arts, where some
of his compositions are still stored.
CICLOS IMAGEM & SOM
Email: ciclos@prolink.com.br
TelFax: (021) 295-6945
R. Elvira Machado, 7 Casa 5 - Botafogo
Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP: 22280-060
A division of the Foundation Library National has a server with a variety of Latin American music.
The University of Texas lists many contacts in Brazil, including universities. You can also take a little tour.
A Divisão de Música e Arquivo Sonoro (DIMAS), par te integrante da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, abriga o maior acervo de música na A mirica Latina.
A server with MIDI files, WAV files, and other information is maintained by:
The Centro de Informatica Musical Informus Ltda. Cx. P. 14498 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22412-970 tel: (021) 274-8536 email: music-center@rionet.com.br
Portuguese for Travelers. Tourist dictionary.
Opcode software distribution:
NovaMente Musica & Software Rus Major Lopes 760 Sao Pedro Belo Horizonte MG 30330-050 Tel: 55 31 225 7800 fax: 55 31 225 0066 email: novamente@i2bbs.ax.apc.org
Other to exlore in Brasil.
CRCA index
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/95_96/bobw/brazil.html