The Computer Arts Society is please to announce its first talk for this New Year featuring the computer music pioneer Peter Zinovieff. The talk will be held at our new venue - the London Knowledge Lab. Please note we have also changed our meetings to 'the first Wednesday of the month!' Wednesday 4 February 2009 6:30 for 7:00pm London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education 23 - 29 Emerald St London WC1N 3QS, England Tube: Holborn, Russell Square or Chancery Lane Map: http://tinyurl.com/6h5cds Peter Zinovieff Music and Geology or Geology, Electronic Music and Opera? The talk is about three enterprises of excellence that I have been intimately involved in. I describe my making the first geological map of the Cuillins mountains in Skye (1958), the problems of my early computers (1960’s) in electronic music contrasted to some present day experiments (2008), and the preparation of my libretto for “The Mask of Orpheus” (1984) by Birtwistle. I show that these wildly different endeavours are not so dissimilar when it comes down to the nuts and bolts of their actual creation. The lecture of 40 minutes is accompanied by archive videos, sounds and slides, as well as a display of rocks, pictures and electronic objects. Peter Zinovieff is a pioneer of electronic and computer music. He is a British inventor of Russian ethnicity, most notable for his EMS company, which made the famous VCS3 synthesiser in the late '60s. The synthesiser was used by many early progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd and White Noise, Krautrock groups like Kraftwerk as well as more pop oriented artists, a good example being David Bowie. Zinovieff also wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Mask of Orpheus. CAS 1968-2009 - supporting the Computer Arts for over 40 years http://www.computer-arts-society.org Future CAS meetings: Wed 4 Mar - Francesca Franco Wed 1 Apr - Joel Pathmore Wed 6 May - Jorn Ebner ==== Paul Brown - based in the Germany Jan - Feb 2009 mailto:[log in to unmask] == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Artist in Residence, compArt Project - Bremen University ====