by James Bohn
On Sunday December 3rd at 3:30 PM, a concert presenting ten years of music from the Computer Music Project of the University of Illinois was given in the Music Building Auditorium. The pieces that were showcased at the concert were presented in chronological order. The first two pieces, Monroe Golden's Departures From a Model (1986) and Rob Maher's A Meditation on a Theme by Dr. Martin Luther King (1989) represented the first half of CMP's existence. Maher's composition had been released in 1989 on a recording of Electronic Music from the University of Illinois.
Five of the thirteen pieces on the concert were produced in 1991, a particularly fruitful year for CMP. The pieces that represented this time period were: Robin Bargar's Raw Data, Benjamin Grosser's Uninduced Approximation for Trumpet and Tape, Michael Hamman's Artifacts, Josef Jurek's An Erudite Barnyard, and David Kelly's Take it Together, Put it Apart.
Two Pieces on the concert came from 1992-1993. These two compositions were Telescope I (1992) by Camille Goudeseune and Elim-rue-kolah (1993) by Ray Watts.
Recently realized pieces that were presented at the concert included: Du Temps Perdu (1994) by Donnacha Dennehy, Nanocomposition I (1994) by Kelly Fitz and Camille Goudeseune, Pearl Before (1994) by Andrew Walters, and the Soliloquy of James Bohn's OPpenheimERA (1995).