Dear Colleagues and Friends: We, members of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA), also participants of this year's International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 99, Beijing), would like to invite you to participate in the establishing of an international computer music organization for Chinese composers, scholars, musicians from every corner of the Earth. Non-Chinese professionals who work in Chinese regions are also welcomed. All the recipients on this preliminary email list are in one way or the other associated with computer music and electroacoustic music work, either as composers, performers, educators, or researchers. At the eve of the next century, when most regions or countries in the world have practiced computer music for many years, there is still no organization with similar focus among all the regions where Chinese reside. Most Chinese in this field work on their own. International joint researches or concerts featuring Chinese composers or researchers are unheard of. Countries such as France, the U.S. and Germany have 40 to 50 years of history in computer/electroacoustic music. 50 years! How do we catch up with isolated sparks here and there? Considering the development in the past 15 years and looking into the future, it is obvious that music technology and the associated arts and sciences will be the main trend in music in the 21st century. The current situation is that only few active Chinese members pave their ways individually in different countries spread across the Earth. The impact of these members on the Chinese music academe or the mass audience are almost non-existent. If any of the Chinese regions wants to start to develop the science, technology, and arts of this field, we believe that a global organization would benefit all of us. We also believe that this year, 1999, is the best time to establish such a global organization. For the second time, the International Computer Music Conference is to be held on the land of the Chinese. (The first time was 1996, in Hong Kong.) With this opportunity, many Chinese computer music practitioners, either from Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Mainland, or from any corner in the world will gather in Beijing this year. This is a wonderful opportunity. Secondly, this is the last year of 20th century. If we, the Chinese, do not organize this association this year, we will have to wait till year 2000 or later. We believe it would be historically important to have the organization established in the 20th Century rather than the 21st. It would be sad if we have to tell the musicians in the 21st Century that the Chinese did not officially recognize computer music as a field until the 21st Century. In comparison to another Asian region, Japan, we are far behind. It is time to catch up. It is time to organize individual effects into a movement and move a new field into the foreground. We sincerely ask your participation and suggestions. There are three ways that you can offer your help and voice your support: 1. We have setup an email list. Please subscribe to the list and share your opinion about the future of this potential organization. (go to: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/ccma and subscribe) 2. Tell us you are interested in joining this international organization so that we can decide if such an organization is feasible. You may do so by signing on our endorsement list. If the response is well, we will set up a meeting during this year's International Computer Music Conference (in Beijing). 3. Attend this year's International Computer Music Conference and sit with us to discuss the future of Computer Music among Chinese in the 21st Century. Sincerely, Li Tang-chun Faculty of Music, McGill University Music, Media, and Technology Group Montreal, CANADA email: litc@music.mcgill.ca Yao Dajuin Berkeley, California, USA email: dajuin@sinologic.com Yu Ying Montreal, CANADA email: yuying1999@hotmail.com Josef Fung Organizer, ICMC 99, Beijing Artistic Director /Conductor, Chinese Virtuosi Beijing/Hong Kong email: jccj@public.fhnet.cn.net Tseng Yu-chung Assistant Professor, Music Department National Sun Yat-sen University Kaohsiung, Taiwan email: yct60@mail.nsysu.edu.tw Kui Dong Assistant Professor in Music Compostion Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hempshire, USA Email: Kui.dong@dartmouth.edu Chao Ching-wen Stanford University Email: chingwen@leland.Stanford.EDU |
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