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Leonardo Electronic Almanac / Volume 15, No. 11-12 / November-December 2007

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Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Volume 15, No. 11-12
November-December 2007
ISSN #1071-4391
 
TABLE of CONTENTS
 
EDITOR’S NOTE
by Nisar Keshvani
 
 
LEA – LMJ Special – My Favorite Things: The Joy of the Gizmo
Introduction: LEA-LMJ Special: My Favorite Supplement: The Joy of the Gizmo
by Patricia Bentson
 
Expectations of Virtuosity: Thoughts on Longevity in Electronic Instrument Design
by J. Anthony Allen
Lost and Found: the Mincer
by John Richards
The Role of Ambiguity within Musical Creativity
by John Ferguson and Paul Bell
Dialogic Instruments: Virtuosity (Re)Located in Improvised Performance
by Paul Stapleton
The Miracles of feedback
by Mario van Horrik
In Conversation with an Automaton: Identities and Agency in a Heterogeneous Social and Musical Network
by Han-earl Park
Glimmer: Lights, Orchestral Performance, and Audience Participation
by Jason Freeman
Joys of travel: introducing the Spectral Tourist
by Martin Parker
Towards a Junk Aesthetic: On the Advantages of Junk Instruments for the Performance of Indeterminate Compositions
by Simon Katan
 
GALLERY
Multimedia Performances
by Annette Barbier and Marla Schweppe
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
LEA Open Call for Submissions
 
ANNOUNCEMENT
LMJ 17 and CD Table of Contents
LMJ 18 Forthcoming Issue

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.