maps and legends
The initial version of maps and legends an FPS (first person shooter) based system for composition and improvisation was installed in the CCRMA octagonal multi-channel listening room. The project was displayed during presentations for CCRMA's Music 220c class. More information can be found here.

Bio-Informatic Feedback as a Compositional Driver
The initial development and testing for the Biometric Feedback project has been completed and presented in conjunction with the Fall 2005 Music 120 (Auditory Remapping/J.Berger) and the Music 250a (Human Controller Interaction/B.Verplank, M.Mathews. More information can be found here.

reveillez-vous: etude no.1
The 8-channel study reveillez-vous: etude no. 1 was recently completed and premiered as part of a presentation of works for CCRMA's Fall 2005 Music 220a (Foundations of Computer Generated Sound course taught by Chris Chafe. The piece features manipulation of vocal timbres sampled from a recording of the Franco-Canadien chanson "Reveillez-Vous Belle Endormie". More information is available on the compositions page here.

jChing @ ICMC 2005
I recently travelled to Barcelona, Spain to present my paper The jChing: an algorithmic java-based compositional system. I gave 2 45 minute demo sessions of the SWT-GUI version of the code and recieved some interesting feedback.

Stanford University MA/MST Program
I was recently accepted into the Stanford University Master's degree in Music, Science and Technology (MST) for 2005-2006 where I will be studying musical software and hardware systems, composition, and DSP with CCRMA faculty such as Chris Chafe, Jonathan Berger, Max Matthews and Julius Smith.

The 2005 SPARK Festival
During the week of February 16-20 at the SPARK Music Festval at the University of Minneapolis, Minnesota, I presented a lecture on my recent paper Rolling the jChing: a Stochastic Algorithmic Compositional System (which was published as part of the proceedings of the festival), sat on a panel discussiong the role of vernacular/pop musical influences in the artistic development of young composers, and premiered a new work is the same... is not the same for alto-saxophone and computer. Saxophonist Cory Kasprzyk commissioned and premiered the piece. More details can be found here

Pianist Emile Blondel in Paris
French/American pianist Emile Blondel is currently performing Piano Interactions #1 in a series of concerts in Paris, France. The first performance was held on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at the Grand Salon of the Fondation Des Etas-Unis of the Cite Universite de Paris. Emile was assisted by CCMIX composer Tadashi Kinukawa. Additional performances are scheduled in March 2005, including the premiere of a collaborative improvisational interactive work.

The 3rd Practice Festival
October 1 & 2, at the Richmond University's 3rd Practice Festival, pianist Chryssie Nanou performed Piano Interactions 1 and 2. This performance will be the world premiere of Piano Interactions 2.

Baguyos Bass World Article
The Spring/Summer edition of BASS WORLD, the Journal for the International Society of Bassists, includes an article by bassist/computer musician Jeremy Baguyos, titled Interactive Computer Music for Double Bass, featuring both Museau de Singe and Conversations on the Nature of Life. Jeremy includes some very nice photos of performances as well as screen captures of the Max/MSP patches. Links to excerpts from the article can be found here:
page 1, page 2, page 3, and page 4

CCMIX: Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis
From October 2004 to May 2005 I'll be studying and working at the CCMIX studios in Alfortville, France, just outside of Paris as part of their 8-month program in computer music. For more information: www.ccmix.com.

European American Musical Alliance
July 3, 2004 - July 31,2004
During the summer of 2004 I attended the EAMA summer composition program at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in Paris, France, studying counterpoint and composition in the style of Nadia Boulanger.
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Piano Interactions #1
Awarded First Prize in the 2004 9th Annual Prix d'Ete competition
Piano Interactions #1 was premiered on Thursday, April 15, 2004 by Ann Teresa Kang in the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall of the Peabody Conservatory of Music at a concert celebrating the winning compositions in the 9th Annual Prix d'Ete competition. The competition, established by Walter Summer in 1994, encourages Peabody graduate and undergraduate composition students to create chamber music that explores new instrumental, vocal, computer and multimedia horizons.
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Full-page color print ad in Symphony Magazine
The full-page color advertisment I created for Masterprize winning composer Christopher Theofanidis will appear in the June/July issue of Symphony Magazine. The advertisement should appear on page 3 of the magazine. More info to come.
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jChing
jChing is a java-based algorithmic composition application modeled after John Cage's famous iChing techniques. The application reads in data cells of musical notes and rhythms using a modified SCORE language syntax and outputs fully realized scores using the MusicXML format. The application is currently still in development.

Museau de Singe
Composition for double bass, piano, and real-time computer processing in MAX/MSP in three movements. Movement one was premiered at the Peabody Computer Music Seminar on April 2, 2003 and was performed by Jeremy Baguyos (Double Bass), Chryssie Nanou (Piano), and Rob Hamilton (Computer). The entire work was premiered at the Peabody Computer Music Department recital on May 8, 2003. The work was written for Jeremy Baguyos and the Modulus Ensemble.
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Digital Music Interactions
Awarded the 2003 Johns Hopkins Technology Fellowship Grant
The Digital Music Interactions project is an attempt to create a suite of interactive compositions to serve as an introduction for young musicians to the methods and experiences of Computer Music performance. The project will be begun in June of 2003 and will be fully realized over the summer session, with completion projected for the end of August 2003. The faculty advisor for this project is Craig Sapp and the project was conceived by Rob Hamilton. Thanks to Dr. Geoff Wright for his guidance in the project planning and proposal.
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Modulus Ensemble
The Modulus Ensemble is a 21st Century Ensemble dedicated to the performance and composition of interactive computer music. Founded in the Fall of 2002 by Jeremy Baguyos and Rob Hamilton, the Modulus Ensemble is currently working on pieces utilising the MAX/MSP real-time audio processing environment. Upcoming performances include the premiere of Museau de Singe by Rob Hamilton and Conversations on the Nature of Life an intermedia collaboration between Jeremy Baguyos, Rob Hamilton, Molecular Biophysicist Leonid Dubrovsky, and Los Angeles-based spoken-word artist Levon Lewis.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
August 15-16 and 29-30, I'll be playing bass guitar for the Landless Theatre production of the cult classic musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the DCAC (District of Columbia Arts Center) in Adams Morgan, Washington DC. DCAC is located at 2438 18th Street NW, Washington D.C. 20009. For tickets, call (202) 462-7833.
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Music Tech II Camp @ The Olenka School of Music
Music Tech II Camp was a week-long music technology course offered by the Olenka School of Music in Columbia Maryland in partnership with the Howard County Parks and Recreation department. Campers were introduced to advanced music technology topics such as digital multi-track recording, MIDI, MAX/MSP software, and the Buchla Lightning II. Along with the use of technology, students learned fundamentals about rhythm, melody and harmony, and basic compositional skills. High Tech Music II. taught by Robert Hamilton, was the advanced section of the camp. High Tech Music Tech I was taught by Scott Jones.
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Conversations on the Nature of Life
Intermedia composition collaboration between Jeremy Baguyos, Rob Hamilton, Molecular Biophysicist Leonid Dubrovsky, and West Coast-based spoken-word artist Levon Lewis. This performance piece integrates a video of protein structures, spoken-word art about the nature of life processed in real-time with both stochastic and deterministic algorithmic techniques, and double bass solo based on the elements of the conversation and of the protein structures. Conversations on the Nature of Life was premiered at the Johns Hopkins Intermedia Festival, Tuesday May 9 at the Mattin Center for the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, in the Mattin Center's Black Box Theatre. Multiple performances were scheduled during the evening.
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PCM Website Re-design
The Peabody Computer Department (pcm.peabody.jhuy.edu) website is currently undergoing a redesign. We are in the processes of updating both the front-end look and navigation for the site as well as completely re-architecting the back-end processing to enable more dynamic content modification. Important updates include the addition of a dynamically editable Computer Music Timeline, the creation of a library of reference material and original content, and a PERL based backend. Planned enhancements include a digital content streaming server for PCM original content.
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24hc.org - The Twenty-Four Hour Concert
Originally the brain-child of composer Jason Allen, the Twenty-Four Hour Concert, or "24hc", is an event in which a concert of completely original contempory music is composed, rehearsed, and performed, within a twenty-four hour period. Composers are assigned randomly drawn small ensembles of musicians for whom they are then given 12 hours to compose and notate an original composition, with no preparation or pre-composed material. The musicians are then given the completed scores and are allowed 12 hours in which to practice the pieces. At the end of the 24 hours, a concert is staged for all the works. Negotiations are currently underway to stage the 2003 24hc at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore in late April or early May of 2003.
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JCScore
JCScore is a java-based score generator for CSound, written to combine the flexibility and portability of programming in Java with the advanced sound-generation capabilities of CSound. The project was started in the spring of 2001 and the first version of the code was completed and documented by the fall of 2001. During the fall of 2001 and the winter of 2002, a GUI front-end was developed using Apple's Mac OSX Cocoa package. Additional modifications continued through 2002. JCScore is hosted and freely available on the Sourceforge.net website at jcscore.sourceforge.net.
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