November 19, 2004 marks the 20th anniversary of the Society for Electro-Acoustic for the United States. From its original 10 members, SEAMUS has grown into one of the premiere national societies for electro-acoustic music. Take a moment during your visit to reflect on where we've been - in photos and forethoughts by SEAMUS founder, Barry Schrader. full story

Look for a special commemorative edition of SEAMUSONLINE on the 19th - replete with video interviews from our past presidents.

Innova Recordings has just released Lost Atlantis, an album of analog electro-acoustic music by Barry Schrader. The CD contains Trinity and all six movements of Lost Atlantis, music composed in 1976 and 1977 on the Buchla 200 modular synthesizer in the CalArts electro-acoustic music studios. The recording was produced and remastered from the original tapes by film composer Gary Chang and supported by a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording program. Lost Atlantis will be available at regular and online stores in early January, and is available now on the Innova site.

The call for submissions for the 2005 SEAMUS National Conference at Ball State Univerisity is now closed. For more information on the conference, go here

On behalf of the entire Board of Directors, I am pleased to announce the release the first module of our automated services on SEAMUSONLINE ~ the Membership Database and individual member portals.

New Features include:

• On-line Membership. You may become a member of SEAMUS instantly and on-line via a Verisign 124-bit encrypted secure socket, using a Mastercard, Visa, or bank debit cards. Manual payments will still be accepted, go to the JOIN navbar tabfor instructions on how to do that.

• On-line Renewal. Existing SEAMUS members will also be able to make their annual dues payment online, via a Verisign 124-bit encrypted secure socket using their Mastercard, Visa, or bank debit cards. Manual payments will still be accepted, go to the JOIN navbar tabfor instructions on how to do that.

• Automated Renewal Notices. Members will now be informed via email if your membership is coming due or has expired. In fact, the first series of letters will be sent out in the next day. Once logged in, you will be prompted on your portal home page on what to do to pay your dues.

The Individual Members Portals will afford the following new features:

• Account Editing. SEAMUS members will have access to their own data and may change that instantly. Members can now update their account information (mailing address, email address and web site url) and in addition, will now be able to enter your C.V. or bio into the database.

You will also be able to verify your account type and your renewal date in this area of the portal.

• Change Password. Members can change your members portal access password instantly at any time

• Members Area. We will be launching the SEAMUS Member's Area which will provide a host of services and benefits exclusively for registered SEAMUS members. The portal will include upcoming event schedules, downloadable PDFs of past SEAMUS Newsletters and Journals, even technical papers from previous National Conferences. Among other features, the members area will also become your gateway to the SEAMUSforum.

• Security. SEAMUSONLINE does not have access to user passwords, nor does it store credit or debit card information as these transactions are not performed on our site, but on the Verisign server, which can be verified by noting the https:// suffix in the address line once that handoff has occurred.

In conclusion, I think we have just taken a huge step forward in the level of service we are able to provide to our members. And once again, as president, on behalf of all the membership, I would like to thank those people whose hard work and creative thinking has made this possible:

Elainie Lillios, our former Vice President for Membership, for conceiving the idea of putting our member database online and for doing the initial research on the feasibility and costs associated with implementing it.

Brian Belet, Vice President for Membership, and Michael Angell, Treasurer, for working out the details of renewals, merchant accounts, and online payments.

Peter Grenader, Web Master, for all of his hard work in designing our new web site and keeping all of us on track during the development.

Matthew McCabe and Matt Avitable of Escapement Arts and Media for authoring the database.

SEAMUS Members: Allen Strange, Jason Thomas, Chris Preissing, Drew Wheeler, for serving as beta testers

This was a team effort, and we have a great team!

Sincerely yours,

Russell Pinkston, President

The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is announcing a call for submissions to the 2005 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition. For more information and application guidelines, click here

Journal SEAMUS Editors appointed

We are very pleased to announce that we have completed our Journal SEAMUS/ staff with the addition of two new editors.

Tae Hong Park has agreed to serve as Managing Editor, and will, therefore, will coordinate all the submissions, send materials out for review, collate the results of the jury, and then pass them along to the Editor if they are acceptable, or work with the author on suggested revisions.

Clay Chaplin has agreed to serve as the Assistant Editor of Festivals and Conferences. He will identify events and potential reviewers, and coordinate submissions.

The editors encourage contributions in the form of papers, articles and review items from all members of the electro-acoustic music community, including composers, performers, and researchers. Areas of interest include the aesthetics, theory, technology, and history of electro-acoustic music in the United States. All contributions are reviewed by a jury of SEAMUS members.

Please submit items for consideration to Kristine H. Burns Editor, Journal SEAMUS, Florida International University, School of Music, University Park Campus, Miami, FL 33199.

A musician with many diverse interests, Mark Zaki has created works that range from traditional chamber music to new media and music for film. Also an active violinist and violist, Zaki was one of the first musicians to use and explore the Zeta (MIDI) violin as an instrument for experimental composition and performance. Demonstrating a wide range of compositional techniques, his music has incorporated and transformed elements from a variety of traditional and popular musical forms, serial procedures, improvisatory contexts and acousmatic practice into a highly idiosyncratic style.

His most recent projects include an acousmatic score for the film The Eyes of van Gogh, a score for the documentary The Political Dr. Seuss (which was broadcast nationally on PBS October 26), and a new media installation Absence, Presence which premiered this past summer at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, CA in a six week exhibition called Bits and Pieces.

His work has been presented by the Comunidad Electroacoustica de Chile (Santiago), the Holland Festival Oude Muziek (Utrecht), the Not Still Art Festival (NYC), the International Computer Music Conference (Miami 2004), Nuit Bleue (France), Electrolune (France), Primavera en La Habana (Cuba), Musica Nova (Prague), the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the SEAMUS National Conference, the Florida Electronic Music Festival, the NWEAMO Festival (San Diego), among others and in the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s CD project DisContact! III. Mark also recently collaborated with director Annie Loui and video artist Antoinette LaFarge scoring their immersive theater and multimedia work Reading Frankenstein.
Zaki includes among his teachers Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, Charles Wuorinen and Arnold Steinhardt. He has doctoral degrees in composition and music technology from Princeton University and in violin/viola performance from Rutgers University. Currently, he divides his time between New York City and Los Angeles. Partial Discography

DISContact III • Condordia
Strange Lines & Distances • Triquetra Music

Go to Mark Zaki's Homepage

The SEAMUS MEMBER FOCUS is an ongoing news feature of SEAMUSONLINE. which randomly spotlights individuals from it's fellowship. Members are asked to keep their webspaces current...you could very likely be next!

SEAMUS's 20th anniversary was recently recognized in the May edition of Mix Magazine. For anyone who may have missed it in print, the article is still featured on MIXonline: go here

Music From SEAMUS, Vol 13

The 13th edition in the Music From SEAMUS CD series has been released. Taken from works presented at the 2003 National Conference at ASU, this compilation includes Mark Applebaum, John Appleton, Larry Austin, Benjamin Broening, Konstantinos Karathanasis, Elainie Lillios, James Mobberley, Noel Paul and Russell Pinkston. click here to order.

The Society recently conducted a survey among its membership to determine the priorities and needs the society must address in the coming years. Top level results of that survey can be seen here

SEAMUS wishes to congratulate Barry Vercoe as the recipient of the 17th Annual Seamus Lifetime Achievement Award on April 24th

Barry Vercoe, Professor of Music and Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and Assoc Academic Head of the Program in Media Arts & Sciences has been awarded the recipient of the 2004 SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award. full story

Every year, the Board of Directors selects the recipient of the SEAMUS Award, in recognition of lifetime achievement and contribution to the art and craft of electro-acoustic music. The award is presented at the SEAMUS National Conference.

The 16 previous award winners are listed below. Click on the recipient name for a bio:

SEAMUS would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the following companies in sponsoring the 2004 member survey: Native Instruments, Bias and Sonic Foundry/Sony.

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The annual SEAMUS National Conference is the cornerstone ofhe organization's yearly schedule. If you and your institution are interested in hosting one of these prestigious events, click here to download the SEAMUS National Conference Handbook for guidelines.