David A. Jaffe
Composer

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Featured albums (click the icon for liner notes):
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Film, Video and Radio
Video of "Terra Non Firma," for four cellos and Radio Baton
Video of "Impossible Animals," for violin and synthetic voices.
Film from 1985, about "Silicon Valley Breakdown,"
Radio Interview with Charles Amirkhanian"
Video of the Radiodrum-controlled Disklavier, from "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World"
CSNBC TV interview about the making of "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World", the Radiodrum, physical modeling, etc.
Video of the first movement of "Wildlife" for Zeta Violin, Radiodrum, and two computers
Video of several movements of "Three Musicians (after the Picasso Paintings)" for viola and guitar
Reviews
Hand-written manuscript to "Quiet Places" for string quartet:
Henry Brant, in Memoriam, 58k pdf file.
VisualAudio - An environment for designing, tuning and testing embedded audio applications, 2005 Conference of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), New York City, 2005, 126k html file.
Orchestrating the Chimera--Musical Hybrids, Technology, and the Development of a "Maximalist" Musical Style, Leonardo Music Jounral (vol. 5, 1996), 39k html file.
Impossible Animals: Notes on Birds and Musical Style, Perspectives of New Music (Winter 1995), 19k html file.
Extensions of the Karplus-Strong Plucked String Algorithm by D. Jaffe and J. O. Smith, in Computer Music Journal (Summer 1983-vol. 7, no. 2), 2.6 m pdf file.
Music and the Computer: Up-ending the family tree, Keynote address to the conference of the Australian Computer Music Association, 1995, 19k html file.
A Virtual Piano Concerto by D. Jaffe and W. A. Schloss, Proceedings of the 1994 International Computer Music Conference, 22k html file.
Performance Expression in Commuted Waveguide Synthesis of Bowed Strings by D. Jaffe and J. O. Smith, in Proceedings of the 1995 International Computer Music Conference, Banff, 20k html file.
Musical and Extramusical Applications of the NeXT Music Kit, Proceedings of the 1991 International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, 491k pdf file.
VisualAudio, a Graphical Audio System Design and Development Environment from Analog Devices, Inc. Audio Rendering Technology Center (ART Center), formerly Staccato Systems, Inc.
Music Kit (2000 version), applications and toolkit for doing sound processing, synthesis and MIDI.
Synth Builder, a Music Kit application for developing synthesis and processing algorithms, under MIDI control. Runs on NeXT and Intel/Nextstep computers. Winner of the International Music Software Competition at Bourges, France, 1998.
Sondius-XG, a joint licensing partnership between Stanford University and Yamaha. Includes over 400 patents for physical modeling synthesis and other computer music algorithms. The Sondius program evolved into Staccato Systems, Inc.
UAD-2 - A hardware accelerator for Universal Audio plug-ins that emulate classic recording studio gear for digital audio workstations (DAWs). Click here for more information.
Biography
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