Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Frog Peak Music


Related Topics

In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

  
  Frog Peak Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frog Peak Music is a composer's collective that produces and distributes experimental works, and functions as a home for its artists.
"Frog Peak Music is dedicated to exploring innovative technologies and aesthetics of publication and distribution, and committed to the idea of availability over promotion.
Frog Peak has published editions of the works of Johanna Magdalena Beyer, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and an on-line web-book, Janet and Her Dear Pheobe, written by Henry Cowell's mother (Clarissa Dixon).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frog_Peak_Music   (245 words)

  
 NewMusicbox
Located in the GraniteState of New Hampshire, Frog Peak Music (A Composers' Collective) is an artist-run organization devoted to publishing and producing experimental and unusual works, distributing artist-produced materials, and serving as a supportive home for its artists.
FPM was co-founded in 1983 by Jody Diamond and Larry Polansky, when the husband and wife team was teaching at Mills College, a hotbed of new music activity.
FPM co-founder Jody Diamond is also the founder of the American Gamelan Institute.
www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=527   (658 words)

  
 Frog Peak Music Recordings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Frog Peak Music is a not-for-profit organization in which member artists determine the form and content of their own work.
Music by Polansky, Burk, Parson, Rosenboom, Scholz, Bischoff, Didkovsky, and Marsanyi.Music using the computer language HMSL (Jierarchical Music Specification Language).
Music by Krause, Marquardt, Lyon, Paccione, Richards, Constable.
www.frogpeak.org /fpcds   (328 words)

  
 Leonardo Digital Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Frog Peak Music (A Composers' Collective) is an artist-run organization in New England U.S.A. publishing and distributing experimental works of its composers.
The work of Carter Scholtz reminds us that Frog Peak's home, Lebanon, New Hampshire is only a few miles from Hanover's Dartmouth College, where Jon Appelton has taught electronic music composition for a quarter century.
The dilemma of such mathematically-structured, possibly overdetermined music of this nature is the philosophical question whether the listener can hear the relationships within the music, or must turn to the composer's descriptive "key" afterwards to understand what has been heard.
mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/oct2001/cd_FROGPEAK_mosher.html   (799 words)

  
 Valley News Web Story Layout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Frog Peak Music co-director Jody Diamond and administrative director Paul Schick stand in the garage at Diamond’s Hanover home, where they store much of the Frog Peak inventory.
Frog Peak's origins hark back to Berkeley, Calif., in the early 1980s, when the wife--and-husband team of Diamond and Polansky, now 51 and 50 respectively, taught part-time and were devoted to experimental music.
Frog Peak is not a recording company, though it has produced 12 albums.
www.vnews.com /03172005/2296548.htm   (1574 words)

  
 <%Title%> - Concord Monitor Online - Concord, NH 03301   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Founders and co-directors of Frog Peak Music in Hanover, they are devoted to the dissemination of music that's as far from the mainstream as you can get.
As for the composers and performers of this marginal stuff, Frog Peak is the answer to their prayers.
Frog Peak's origins hark back to Berkeley, Calif., in the early 1980s, when the wife-and-husband team of Diamond and Polansky taught part-time and were devoted to experimental music.
www.concordmonitor.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050320/REPOSITORY/503200351/1001/NEWS01   (807 words)

  
 MTO 8.3: Capuzzo, Review of Morris
The discussion of context-sensitive operations is of pertinence to all analysts of atonal and twelve-tone music, even undergraduates encountering hexachordal combinatoriality for the first time.
Few music texts enjoy the luxury of a six-year gestation period during which drafts are test-run in class after class of graduate students; Class Notes for Advanced Atonal Music Theory bears all the positive marks of such a text.
Items appearing in MTO may be saved and stored in electronic or paper form, and may be shared among individuals for purposes of scholarly research or discussion, but may not be republished in any form, electronic or print, without prior, written permission from the author(s), and advance notification of the editors of MTO.
societymusictheory.org /mto/issues/mto.02.8.3/mto.02.8.3.capuzzo.html   (2716 words)

  
 New Hampshire Business Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Polansky is co-founder of Frog Peak Music, along with his wife Jody Diamond.
If you have a passing acquaintance with music, you might recognize some of the names on its roster: Lou Harrison, a composer who combined Western and Eastern music; Anthony Braxton, a master of experimental jazz; James Tenney, a leading figure in the musical avant-garde.
Frog Peak hasn’t completely taken over their lives; they leave time in their schedules for their own musical projects.
www.nh.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20050624/businessreview28/50622004/-1/businessreview   (949 words)

  
 David Rosenboom
In the 1970's he was a Professor and founder of the Department of Music and Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Programme at York University in Toronto.
He taught music and fine arts courses there, directed performing groups, was Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Fine Arts, and founder and Director of the Electronic Media Studios and Laboratory of Experimental Aesthetics.
He has developed computer software for music, was co-designer of a computerized keyboard instrument with Donald Buchla, the Touché, and is co-author (with L. Polansky and P. Burk) of HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language), a music programming language widely used by educational institutions and individuals.
www.lovely.com /bios/rosenboom.html   (1200 words)

  
 Larry Polansky, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
He is a core member of the Frog Peak Music composer's collective, and a widely published music theorist who co-wrote HSML, or Hierarchical Music Specification Language, with Phil Burk and...
He is a core member of the Frog Peak Music composer's collective, and a widely published music theorist who co-wrote HSML, or Hierarchical Music Specification Language, with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom, as well as other computer software.
He taught at Mills College for ten years, then went to Dartmouth, where he teaches electro-acoustic music, is department Chair, and co-director of its electronic music studio.
www.emusic.com /artist/11577/11577956.html   (179 words)

  
 [No title]
Frog Peak Music (A Composers' Collective) is an artist-run organization devoted to publishing and producing experimental and unusual works, distributing artist-produced materials, and in general providing a home for its artists.
Frog Peak is dedicated to exploring innovative technologies and aesthetics of publication and distribution, and committed to the idea of availability over promotion.
Some of its sections are devoted to specific musical cultures, others to regions, and yet others to the musical concepts and behavior of individuals.
www.lib.umd.edu /ETC/ReadingRoom/Newsletters/EthnoMusicology/Digest/94-188.erd   (1315 words)

  
 "If we can make it we can print it
An important experimental literary and musical organization that concentrates on sound and text, specifically in the works of important west coast artists.
And and Was integrate permaculture, gourds, electronic music, agrimedia, utopian arts community publication, cassette networking, mail art, and other visionary technologies into a single philosophy which is both radical and inspiring.
One of the major publications documenting the activity of the musical avant-garde of the 1960's and early 1970's.
eamusic.dartmouth.edu /~larry/misc_writings/talks/ind.publishing.HTML   (4961 words)

  
 HMSL
HMSL was developed by Phil Burk, Larry Polansky and David Rosenboom at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music and is distributed by Frog Peak Music.
HMSL was available from Frog Peak Music but is now out of print.
SUBDIV was composed by gamelan composer and electronic music pioneer Phil Corner and programmed by Phil Burk.
www.softsynth.com /hmsl   (337 words)

  
 Frog - educational resources
FROG (Frequency Resolved Optical Gating) is a technique that completely characterizes an ultrashort laser pulse in time.
Frogwatch USA is a long-term frog and toad monitoring program managed by the National Wildlife Federation in partnership with the United States Geological...
Northern Leopard Frog, Rana pipiens Return to checklist: family/species species only, The Northern Leopard Frog is a wide ranging and abundant species.
animals.mongabay.com /madagascar/Frog.html   (412 words)

  
 · · · CROSSFADE· · · Brown and Bischoff· · ·
He teaches electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM).
He was a founding member of two premiere network bands, The League of Automatic Music Composers and the Hub, and co-authored an article on the League's music that appears in "Foundations of Computer Music", MIT Press (1985).
Recordings of his music are available on Lovely Music, Frog Peak, Centaur, and Artifact Recordings, and will appear soon on an upcoming solo release on 23five.
crossfade.walkerart.org /brownbischoff2   (289 words)

  
 Special Guest DANIEL GOODE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Scores and essays are published in many anthologies and magazines of new music.
He was Director of the Electronic Music Studio of Rutgers University, and is co-director of the DownTown Ensemble which he co-founded in New York in 1983.
A recording of his ensemble music is to be released on CRI.
www.strangemusic.com /main_events_DanielGoode.htm   (286 words)

  
 David Rosenboom: Musical Works
564–566 and included in In the Beginning, Frog Peak Music, Hanover, NH In the Beginning: Etude III (Piano and Two Oranges) (1980) graphic score for piano involving precise gesture shapes and rhythmic structures played by rolling round objects on the keyboard; score published in Perspectives of New Music, Vol.
Musical Intervention 1979 for Eugenio Tellez, electronic process based on the Himno National de Chile, recorded in the composer’s studio, released on Roundup: A Live Electro–acoustic Retrospective (1968–1984), Slowscan Editions, Vol.
Musical Intervention 1982 for Eugenio Tellez, electronic process on the Internationale, recorded in the composer’s studio, released on Roundup: A Live Electro–acoustic Retrospective (1968–1984), Slowscan Editions, Vol.
music.calarts.edu /~david/musicworks/music.html   (1887 words)

  
 index.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Music and Computers, co-authored with Phil Burk, Mary Roberts, douglas repetto, Dan Rockmore.
Frog Peak Johanna Beyer Project, and many other CDs and editions for Frog Peak.
Frog Peak Collaborations: 115 pieces by 62 composers on a text by Chris Mann.
eamusic.dartmouth.edu /~larry/published_articles/index.html   (1510 words)

  
 Larry Polansky
Polansky studied with Ron Riddle at New College in Florida, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he earned his BA in mathematics and music in 1976, and with James Tenney at York University in Toronto in 1977.
As a guitarist, he has often played new music, notably with guitarist Nick Didkovsky and in a trio with Kui Dong and Christian Wolff, and he also plays gender (Indonesian metallophone), mandocello, mandolin, and other instruments.
He founded Frog Peak Music in New Hampshire in 1982, an experimental composers' collective, and has since served as its co-director.
composers21.com /compdocs/polanskl.htm   (694 words)

  
 [cmc-users] [Fwd: New Polansky CD: CHANGE]
Virtuoso contemporary flute music by Anne LaBerge, a Netherlands-based flutist/composer.
Music by Krause, Marquardt, Lyon, Paccione, Richards, Constable, played by the Thump Piano Duo.
Music by Polansky, Burk, Parson, Rosenboom, Scholz, Bischoff, Didkovsky, and Marsanyi.
www.music.columbia.edu /pipermail/cmc-users/2002-September/000011.html   (412 words)

  
 CCi - Music Source - Alvin Curran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alvin Curran, a persistent innovator in today's new music world, brings the whole envionment into unpredictable focus through his sonic fireworks, sharp wit, and timeless lyricism, from his elaborate electronic soundscpaes to his spacious, painfully expressive output for solo piano.
He is also known for his collaborations with groups such as the Living Theater and the Trisha Brown Dance Company.
Curran is presently Darius Milhaud Professor of Composition at Mills College, though he has remained at his base in Rome during 2004-2005 because of a Guggenheim fellowship.
www.composerscollab.org /music_source/curran-alvin.html   (171 words)

  
 HerpSearch.com - USA's biggest reptile search engine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The On-Line Frog Dissection from the Curry School of Education.
Frogs are amphibians, animals that begin their lives in the water breathing with
For example, White's tree frog (Litoria caerulea) varies in shades of...
www.herpsearch.com /?q=Frog&s=40   (232 words)

  
 American Music Center Member: David Rosenboom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Music Notation and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, in, Smith, S.: in Scholz, C.(ed.): Frog Peak Anthology, Frog Peak Music, Hanover, NH, 1992 and in [Leonardo], Vol.
Music for Keyboard Instruments and Improvisation Groups, 1964-1981, [Frog Peak Music], Hanover, NH, 1987, scores for ten musical works.
HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language), developed by Rosenboom, D., Polansky, L., and Burk, P., [Frog Peak Music], Hanover, NH, 1980-present, (new versions continue to be released).
www.amc.net /member/David_Rosenboom/shop.html   (1931 words)

  
 Ezra Sims Bio
Ezra Sims is known mainly as a composer of microtonal music, which — except for several
His music has been performed from Tokyo to Salzburg.
Maneri's microtonal music classes at New England Conservatory of Music since 1976.
hometown.aol.com /ezrsims   (241 words)

  
 Kyma Internet Community
He is the founder of the Electronic Music Foundation and has also written a highly entertaining history of electronic sound, concentrating on the human beings and the music behind the machines called Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music, published by Prentice Hall.
Stanley Cowell is a composer, jazz pianist, and a professor of music at Rutgers University.
He believes that the last frontiers of music are timbre and sound spatialization, and he hopes to push the sonic envelope by emphasis of these musical elements.
www.symbolicsound.com /eighth-userDir.html   (11692 words)

  
 New Music Playlist Spring 1998
From "The Frog Peak Collaborations Project: 62 Composers, 115 Pieces on a Sound/Text by Chris Mann".
Ars Nova Ensemble, Singers of the O.R.T.F. Musical Heritage Society LP MHS 1187.
From "The Frog Peak Collaborations Project: 62 Composers, 115 Pieces on a Sound/Text by Chris Mann." Frog Peak Music CD FP 007.
kalvos.org /playn98.html   (1136 words)

  
 compositions_.html
Premiered Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 5/87, revised 10/87; revised 4/88 in collaboration with Melody Sumner and John Bischoff; recorded on Frog Peak cassette.
Several have been performed, including Distance Music I ("The Metric System") (for Charles Ames), Distance Music IV "Drawing Unnecessary Conclusions,"Distance Music V ("The Roots of Learning") (for John Bischoff, Tim Perkis and Jim Horton), and Distance Music VI ("The World's Longest Melody") (for David Feldman); published in Perspectives of New Music.
American Music for Fretted Strings, entire concert of American "traditional" musics arranged for guitars of all types, ukeleles, and mandolin family instruments, all solo, including jazz, country, fiddle tunes, rags, marches, and original works.
o-art.org /history/80s&90s/Mills/LPolansky/compositions_.html   (3178 words)

  
 John Bischoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bischoff's music is built from intrinsic features of the electronic medium: high definition noise components, tonal edges, imperfections, transitions, digital shading, and non-linear motion.
He has been active in the experimental music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years as a composer, performer, teacher, and grassroots activist.
He was a founding member of the League of Automatic Music Composers in 1978, considered to be the world's first Computer Network Band, and he co-authored an article on the League's music that appears in "Foundations of Computer Music" (MIT Press 1985).
www.lovely.com /bios/bischoff.html   (393 words)

  
 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz Solo Music Catalog
Exhausting and exquisite, it is some of the most challenging horn music of its time, and was commissioned by the brilliant Czech performer Petr Cígler.
Available from Frog Peak Music Note that the mp3 demos are arranged for a variety of wind orchestrations -- a little fun.
The music had some demanding string writing, which the players handled like a shortstop making a tough play look easy.
www.maltedmedia.com /people/bathory/cat-solo.html   (2733 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.