Digital Music Lab – upcoming info sessions announced for 3/29, 4/5 and 4/12, 2-3pm

Announcing three upcoming info sessions on the resources of the Digital Music Lab, in the Music & Arts Library. The Digital Music Lab offers specialized music software, digital pianos, and a large-format scanner. The software enables you to compose, edit, notate, process, transcribe, and analyze digital audio and music notation. Applications include Sibelius, Finale, Logic […]

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“Ghost in the Instrument” Festival at Columbia, week of 3/19

The Computer Music Center at Columbia University presents a week of lectures, concerts, and workshops, “Ghost in the Instrument: Aspects of Musical Research and Composition“. The event is on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the PRISMA International Forum. All events are FREE and open to the public (registration is required for the software […]

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Winter Break Hours

The Music & Arts Library will observe the following hours over the Winter Break, beginning on Saturday, 12/24/11: Monday – Friday     10am-5pm Saturday, Sunday    Closed In addition, the Library will be closed for University Holidays on Monday – Tuesday, 12/26-27, on Monday – Tuesday, 1/2-3, and on Monday, 1/16. Reference and Reserve services continue to […]

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Daphne Oram, 1950s British electronic music pioneer

NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday ran a brief piece today on Daphne Oram, a pioneer of electronic music in Britain in the 1950s. Oram worked as Director of the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, and developed her own system/technique called “Oramics”, which involved painting waveforms and control signals on film, which was then used to control the exposure […]

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Learn more about the Digital Music Lab!

Want to learn more about the Music & Arts Library’s Digital Music Lab? Attend an info session in October! The Lab is designed to enable users to play, compose, record, scan, notate, edit, program, and analyze digital music, audio, and musical notation. Three sessions will be offered, providing an overview of the resources of the […]

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The Digital Music Lab in the Music & Arts Library

The Music & Arts Library is pleased to offer the Digital Music Lab, a space featuring 4 Mac workstations, 2 digital pianos, an 11″ x 17″ scanner, and a suite of specialized software, allowing users to to play, compose, record, scan, notate, edit, program, and analyze digital audio and music scores. A full list of […]

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