David A. Jaffe
Composer
New work (2007): Underground Economy, for electro-acoustic Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble
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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.
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 International Computer Music Conference, Banff, 20k html file.
VisualAudio, a Graphical Audio System Design and Development Environment from Analog Devices, Inc. Audio Rendering Technology Center (ART Center), formerly Staccato Systems, Inc.
SoundMAX, audio rendering software from Staccato Systems and ART Center, Analog Devices, Inc. Used in Racing Against Time
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.
Biography
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