** EMPAC is sorry to announce that the October 11 lecture and performance by musician and innovator Max Mathews, has been postponed. Notification will be sent when we reschedule. Updates and information also will be available here so check back!

We regret any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you at other upcoming EMPAC events: **

Max Mathews — Memories, Futures, and Dreams of Computer Music:

From Bell Labs to radio batons to brain scanners, join us for this lecture in which Max Mathews will take us through the very recent history of computer music and beyond .

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Fifty years ago, in 1957, at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Max Mathews demonstrated that the digital computer can be used as a fantastic new music instrument. His audacious ideas and developments made five decades of art and research possible, laying the groundwork for countless electronic musicians to compose, synthesize, record, and play music, and for the many other commercial and industrial applications of digital audio. Max Mathews will talk, play recordings, and perform using the Radio Baton: A unique opportunity to hear the driving force that changed the production and performance of music in the most radical ways.

Curator: Micah Silver.

Additional Information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mathews

http://www.csounds.com/mathews/

The schedule for Max Mathews is as follows:

Admission to Max Mathews is free and open to the public.

Download the Rensselaer campus map and make your way to the Center for Biotechnology. Parking is available adjacent to the venue with access from College Avenue. There will be signs to direct you to the event.

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Questions? Call the EMPAC Event Hotline: 518.276.3921

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