MULTIDISCIPLINARY IMPLICATIONS: AUDIUM’S VISITORS

Through thousands of performances spanning 39 years of ongoing weekly programs in two theatres (1967-1970, 1975 to present), AUDIUM has had numerous visitors from the arts, sciences, education and technology. On this page, we highlight a few, whose own fields might have experienced a cross-fertilization of ideas through the experience. (The list includes individuals and groups who attended public performances, as well as those for whom we presented special programs.)

We began compiling this list from brief contact notations made at the time of the visit. For these visitors, we provide dates. We then went to stacks of business cards jumbled through time, containing no time notations. For these visitors, we offer no specific dates. Therefore, placement within three of the four lists below is without regard to chronology.

UNIVERSITIES & RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS:

PIERRE HENRY Composer, co-founder of Musique Concrete, Oct. 20, 1998

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Hans Tutschku, Director of Electroacoustic Studios

UNIVERSITY of MONTREAL Francis Dhomont, Electronic Music, March, 2004

RENNES UNIVERSITY Alain Bioteau, Composer, Musicologist, Feb. 2006

CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU Head of Pedagogy

UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK Poland, Head of Sound Engineering Department

ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION Russia, Composer

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Mary Wright, Department of Music

SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIV. Herb Bielawa, Composer

SAN FRANCISCO STATE U. Dean Suzuki, Musicologist, New Music America

SAN FRANCISCO STATE U. Scott Patterson, Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts

SAN FRANCISCO STATE U. Jeff Jacoby, Sound and Radio Arts

STANFORD UNIVERSITY Loren Rush, Composer

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM Department of Computational Linguistics

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Technology Laboratory,Research Scientist

SIMON FRASER UNIV. B.C. Assoc. Director, Inst. for Interface Technology

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Digital Media Ken Hillis

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Jan.2005

UNIVERSITY OF NIJMEGEN Netherlands, Experimental Psychology

CALIFORNIA LIBRARY OF NATURAL SOUNDS Curator

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL Canada

MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM Exhibition Planner 1988

NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER Durand Begault

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Microbiologist, Genome Project

2007 through 2009:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY Chris Chafe, CCRMA, (July 2007)

OXFORD UNIVERSITY Robert Carl, Composer, Author of “Terry Riley’s In C” (July 2007)

UNIVERSITE LAURENTIENNE David Buley, Composer, Prof. of Music (Oct. 2007)

UNIVERSITY OF AIZU, JAPAN Michael Cohen. Prof. Spatial Media Group (Feb. 2005, Oct. 2008)

McGILL UNIVERSITY William Martens, Prof. & Sound Recording Chair, Montreal (Oct.2008)

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY Mark Grundland, Image Processing (May 2009, March 2010)

STANFORD UNIVERSITY John Chowning, Composer, Prof. Emeritus of Music, CCRMA (May 2010)

GROUPE DE RECHERCHES MUSICALES Evelyne Gayou, Composer, Director (May 2010)

ARTS:

KYOTO YUGEN INSTITUTE OF NOH STUDIES Dr. Yuko Yuasa

INSTITUTE OF NEUROESTHETICS University of California, Berkeley

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY John A. Leonard, Sound Designer

AMERICAN THEATER July 28, 2001

PROSCENIUM THEATRE GROUP May 10, 2004

OTHER MINDS 10 FESTIVAL Charles Amirkhanian, Founder, Composer

Special AUDIUM program; three performances, one panel, March 4-6, 2004

GARETH LOY Composer, Software Designer, author of “Musimathics” (Jan. 2007)

SAN FRANCISCO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PLAYERS Adam Frey, Exec. Director (Apr. 2007)

MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE CO., Stepher Moor, Sound Engineer & Music Coord. (Nov. 2008)

SACHIYO TAKAHASHI Japanese composer (Dec. 2008)

HENRY KAISER Guitarist, Composer, Film-maker (July 2009)

SFMOMA CURATORIAL STAFF Special performance (March 2009)

AUDIO ENGINEERING, SOUND DESIGN AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY:

AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY CONVENTION October 30,2004, Special AUDIUM Performance, for AES Convention

MEYER SOUND LABORATORIES Communications Manager, AES Convention Co-ordinator, Larry O

LUCAS FILMS July 26, 2003, Special program for Richard Beggs and conference of fellow sound designers

LUCAS FILMS Director of Engineering, THX Group (date missing)

ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANTS December 2002,Guthier, Wilson, Ihrig & Associates

WIRED MAGAZINE March 29, 2002

DOLBY LABORATORIES Sept. 1, 2001,Senior Engineers, Test Development

IDEO October 6,2001,Designers’ group

DIGIDESIGN ENGINEERING April 14, 2000

WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING GROUP March 7, 1998

WALT DISNEY GROUP January 29, 1996

XEROX CONFERENCE November 5, 1996,Two special AUDIUM programs for conference plus panel at Xerox Park

GRATEFUL DEAD October 20, 1995,Sound Engineer

APPLE COMPUTER Engineer, Sound Group Advanced Development 1992

ATARI GAMES 1992,Senior Composer

IMAX 1992,Engineer

WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING GROUP February 1991

MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 1988,Exhibition Planner

ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANTS PAOLETTI & LEWITZ March 29,1985

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS 1985,AUDIUM performance for AIA

ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANT Christopher Jaffee

SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT Dereck Chan, March, 2006

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA:

BBC, Correspondent Bernard Mayes

ASAHI SHIMBUN Editorial Writer, Arts & Sciences, Itsuo Sakane

VOICE OF AMERICA , Susan Logue

EUMAK DONG Journal of Music, Korea, Jin Hi Kim

TECH TV Audio File, Jason Zemlicka

PBS Beyond Computers, John Rigney

EMPREINTES DIGITALES Montreal, Jean-Francois Denis

IG MEDIEN Jurgen Gutowski

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION John Barlow


For a more comprehensive list of Media, please consult Articles, Reviews, Interviews and Links Page.

The above compilation represents special visitors beginning with the mid-1980’s. In the near future, we hope to go back another two decades, and add visitors from the 1960’s to the mid-1980’s.