Sever Tipei
| Sever Tipei | |
|---|---|
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| Born | November 1, 1943 Bucharest, Romania |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Romanian, American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Michigan (Ph.D), Bucharest Conservatory (Diploma Piano), Musical Aesthetics at l'Université de Paris VIII |
| 💼 Occupation | Composer, Theorist, Pianist, Professor |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Dr. Nicolae Tipei and Letitia Tipei |
Sever Tipei born November 1, 1943 in Bucharest, Romania, is a composer, theorist, pianist, and Professor of Composition-Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Life and career[edit]
Romania
Studied piano (1962-1967) at the Bucharest Conservatory with Cella Delavrancea, Cici Manta, and Silvia Şerbescu, and composition (1967-1971) with Aurel Stroe. In 1970 formed the trio G3+ with soprano Steliana Calos and clarinetist Valeriu Barbuceanu presenting works by Boulez, Earl Brown, Dary John Mizelle, Kazimierz Serocki, Stockhausen, and Webern in Romanian first audition. At the same time, he wrote essays and concert reviews for Secolul 20, Viaţa Românească, România Literară, and Contemporanul.
In 1971 he left communist Romania and became a political refugee in Paris, France. Attended a seminar conducted by Daniel Charles at the Université de Paris VII, Vincennes, and informal sessions with Max Deutsch. As a member of the GERM group directed by Pierre Mariétan participated in concerts in France and Switzerland performing and recording works by Pierre Barbaud, John Cage, Luc Ferrari and Terry Riley; also performed in ensembles conducted by Konstantin Simonovich and Stockhausen. In Paris, he attended meetings of the Equipe de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales (EMAMu) under the direction of Iannis Xenakis and contributed frequently to the Free Europe broadcasts of Monica Lovinescu.
United States
Tipei emigrated to the US in 1972 and became a US citizen in 1978. Studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1972-1978) where he obtained a DMA in composition. He taught at Roosevelt University in Chicago (1975-1978), and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (since 1978) where he is Professor of Composition and Music Theory, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Faculty Affiliate, and directs the Computer Music Project.
During a Faculty Appointment (Visiting Scientist) (1994-2003) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) he worked on sonification of complex scientific data with mathematician Hans G. Kaper. Together with James W. Beauchamp organized the 1987 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC).
Computer Music[edit]
Softare design[edit]
• MP1, a computer-assisted (algorithmic) composition program written in FORTRAN and using stochastic distributions, sieves, and Markov chains. In use 1973-1998, it was implemented on the Cray X-MP supercomputer at NCSA in 1986.
• DIASS (Digital Instrument for Additive Sound Synthesis), functions as part of MUSIC 4C synthesis language. A parallel version was implemented on ANL IBM Scalable POWER parallel Computer (1996). Developed at CMP and ANL with Hans G. Kaper.
• SoundMaker, a command line C++ program used for classroom teaching and demonstration.
• M4CAVE, Sound Visualization in a VR Environment, renders visual images from sounds produced by DIASS in the CAVE. Developed at CMP and ANL with Hans G. Kaper.
• DISSCO, Digital Instrument for Sound Synthesis and Composition, written in C++, a unified approach to music composition and sound synthesis, bringing together both areas in a seamless process. Developed at CMP and ANL, with Hans G. Kaper.
Selected articles[edit]
• Proposals for a Music Formalization, manuscript (1972).
• MP1: A Computer Program for Music Composition, Proc. Second Annual Music Computation Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1975, pp. 68-82.
• MAIDEN VOYAGES - a Score Produced with MP1, Computer Music Journal, Vol .11 No.2, 1987, pp 49-58.
• Manifold Compositions Proc. Intl' Computer Music Conference, Ohio State University, 1989, pp 324-327, defines all actual and potential variants of a musical work generated by a computer running a program that contains elements of indeterminacy and uses the exact same data for each variant.
• The Computer, a Composer's Collaborator, Leonardo Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, vol. 22 no.2, 1989, pp. 189-195.
• Manifold Compositions, Music Visualization, and Sonification in an Immersive Virtual-Reality Environment Proc. Int'l Computer Music Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1998
• Formalizing the Concept of Sound, Proc. Intl’ Computer Music Conference, Beijing, China, 1999.
• Loudness Scaling in a Digital Synthesis Library, Proc. Intl’ Computer Music Conference, Miami, 2004, pp. 398-401.
• Composing with Sieves: Structure and Indeterminacy In-time, Proc. Intl’ Computer Music Conference, Perth, Australia, 2013, pp. 333-336.
• Emerging Composition: Being and Becoming, 2016 Sound and Music Computing, Hamburg, Germany, 2016.
• Communicating a World View: figer, a Manifold Composition, 16th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM), Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2017.
Computer music compositions[edit]
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Killing Herself with a coup de telephone in MI 48015, for four female voices, realized with MP1, 1975.
• Undulating Michigamme, for soloists and orchestra, partially realized with MP1, 1977-1978
• Clariphannies, for clarinet, partially realized with MP1, 1980
• Maiden Voyages, for trumpet, piano, slides projectors, and tape, realized with MP1, 1985
• Cuniculi, for five tubas, realized with MP1, 1986
• Many Worlds, for percussion ensemble, realized with MP1 on the CRAY X-MP supercomputer, 1989.
• Curses. Fpr solo male voice, female backup group and computer generated sounds, realized with DIAS, 1996
• A.N.L. - folds, manifold composition, realized with DIAS, 1996-2002
• Daria/Decaf, manifold compositions for computer generated sounds, realized with DISSCO, 2005-2006
• Dux Markovians and Trees, for chamber ensemble, 2008
• HB with G & E, manifold composition for pino solo and computer generated sounds, realized with DISSCO, 2009
• CAGE V, manifold composition for computer generated sounds, realized with DISSCO, 2012
• Trans, manifold composition for computer generated sounds, realized with DISSCO, 2014
• figer, manifold composition for computer generated sounds, realized with DISSCO, 2014.
• Big Gizmo, manifold composition for computer generated sounds, realized with DISSCO, 2015
- Quilt, manifold composition for computer generated sounds, realized with DISSCO, 2015
- Ghioc, manifold composition for baritone saxophone and computer generated sounds, 2018
Other selected composition[edit]
• Translation, for soprano, clarinet, and piano, 1970
• Reconaissances; Pour Gérard, for a pianist, commissioned by Gérard Frémy for the 7th Biennale de Paris, 1971
• Happy And..., for voice, toys, and tape, 1974
• Katastrophe, analog electronic music tape, 1975
• Undulating Michigamme, for soloists and orchestra, partially realized with MP1, 1977-1978
• Lament, for piano, 1980
• Ezra Pound's CANTO CXVI, a Commentary, for baritone and piano, 1980
• KingS Nap, for piano, 1994
• Cantus Interruptus, for baritone and prepared piano, 1995
• L'Exécration du Père-Mère (Antonin Artaud), for soprano, cello, trombone, harp, and percussion, 2002
Recordings:[edit]
• Dinu Ghezzo - Thalla, Ritualen pianist, Orion - ORS 75172, 1975.
• Maiden Voyages, 25th Anniversary of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios album, 1984
• Cuniculi, for five tubas, on Centaur Records, CDCM Computer Music Series, Vol. 3, 1985.
• Clariphannies, VERIATZA 86-1, "Chamber Music" album, 1986
• Raw Cuts: Experimental Music by Sever Tipei, Computer Music Project, University of Illinois, 1998
• LilDaria, 50th Anniversary of the University of Illinois Experimantal Music Studios album, 2008
• Funktasia, Music by Zack Browning and Sever Tipei, Centaur Records, 2009.
• CAGE V, SEAMUS electroacoustic miniature: Re-Caged, 2012.
• Quilt, SEAMUS electroacoustic miniatures: Sonic Haiku, 2015.
• figer, ABLAZE records Electfronic Masters vol. 6, 2018.
References:[edit]
• Liviu Danceanu - Muzica: “La cheremul şansei, Romania literara, No. 1, 2007
• C. Alan Publications - Tipei, Sever
External links:[edit]
• James Bohn - Sever Tipei: raw cuts, Computer Music Journal, Vol. 25 Issue 1, Reviews, 2001.
• Kelly Searsmith - Sever Tipei/Composers Forum eDream, NCSA, October 29, 2009.
• Concert to Celebrate Composer Sever Tipei, NIU Today, January 25, 2012.
• Kathryn Kopchik - Sever Tipei in Gallery Series Concert, Bucknell University, April 2015
• Katherine Kendig - DISSCO Tech: Advancing the Legacy of Computer Music at Illinois, NCSA, University of Illinois, October 11, 2017
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