The 1987 International Computer Music Conference: A Review

Abstract

N 1975 THE University of Illinois hosted the second International Computer Music Conference, then known as the Music Computation Conference. At that time the computer music field as an organized community was just in its infancy. Thirteen years later, in 1987, the International Computer Music Conference returned to Urbana/Champaign; what had been tentative and esoteric had grown into a robust and stable institution. This maturity was not only confirmed by the research papers and concerts of music produced at the thirty some odd computer music studios affiliated with academic institutions in the United States and abroad, but also by the insurgence of industry as certain aspects of computer music have become big business. For instance, hardware development has led to compact disk storage compression and digital cassette storage, and the advent of MIDI development has touched every commercial aspect of music from