[spectre] [CAS] November Talk: Peter Zinovieff and Electronic Music Studios - EMS

[Paul Brown]

The Computer Arts Society’s 2024 series of events continues

Peter Zinovieff and Electronic Music Studios - EMS

Speaker: James Gardner; Moderator: Sean Clark
19:00 GMT, Wednesday, 20 November 2024
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This event will be held via Zoom only.  Booking link below.

Peter Zinovieff established the UK’s first computer music studio in 1967 and immediately began a creative collaboration with programmer Alan Sutcliffe – co-founder of the Computer Arts Society – that produced two pieces: March Probabilistic and ZASP. The latter’s success took Sutcliffe to the IFIP Congress in Edinburgh where he instigated the idea of the CAS. Using archival material, James Gardner examines the discussions between Zinovieff and Sutcliffe and their ambitions for computer music in the late 1960s; details Zinovieff’s crowd-pleasing turn at the Cybernetic Serendipity Exhibition; and traces Zinovieff’s studio spin-offs such as the sequencer in the EMS Synthi 100 synthesiser.

James Gardner is a composer, researcher, and synthesist based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).  James has lectured on music at the University of Auckland, Unitec Institute of Technology, and the University of Canterbury, Christchurch.  His primary research topic is the synthesiser company EMS, and the electronic music studio of Peter Zinovieff.

The event will also mark the occasion of the R10.EMS MKII heritage media studio in Leicester. An exciting new collaboration between the Computer Arts Archive CIC and Krafthaus Arts CIC.

The event will be recorded and uploaded to the CAS YouTube Channel.

This event is via Zoom and open to the public and is free but you must book your place here: https://ComputerArtsSociety201124.eventbrite.co.uk <https://computerartssociety201124.eventbrite.co.uk/>
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Our next meeting will be our AGM and opening of Sue Gollifer’s and Jack Tait’s exhibitions on Tuesday 10 December 2024 in Person and Zoom.

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