Jeremy Castro Baguyos
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Jeremy Castro Baguyos is a musician-researcher and college professor specializing in the realization of live interactive computer music
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Currently based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
, Jeremy Baguyos holds the position of Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Artist-Faculty of Double Bass. As a college professor he teaches in all areas that combine music and digital audio technology. He directs research and creative activity in interactive computer music in both the College of Communication, Fine Arts, and Media and the College of Information Science and Technology.
His most notable contributions to the field are in the area of live performance combined with interactive computer technology. For the state of Nebraska
, Baguyos established the state's first interactive computer music ensemble, Ensemble A.M.I. (Artificial Music Initiative), in conjunction with its first and only electronic music festival featuring interactive computer music
, Virtual Music Week. For his own instrument, the double bass, he was one of the early practitioners of interactive computer music performance on the double bass. Inspired by the early electronic pioneers such as Robert Black
and Bertram Turetzky
, Baguyos studied computer music at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University
It was at Peabody that he performed with the Peabody Computer Music Consort and collaborated with other students of computer music and established composers of computer music who shared his enthusiasm for the emerging art form. The result was the performance, between 2002 and 2005, of some of the first significant repertoire for double bass and interactive electronics and probably the very first double bass repertoire to utilize the MSP extensions to the Max (software)
digital audio programming language. It is for this reason, his work differed from the few earlier experiments in interactive computer music for double bass. His realizations in public presentation were implemented in software as opposed to reliance on the much more limited hardware-based synthesis. He performed repertoire that utilized real-time audio capture and DSP, the use of automation in live performance, and simulations of musical machine intelligence. His experimental work in this area has been recorded on the "Music From SEAMUS" annual CD series of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States as well as his own solo CD released in 2005, "Uncoiled Oscillations," (OCD Media).
He continues, today, in the academic arena, as a recitalist, lecturer, composer, researcher, and author in interactive computer music and double bass. He appears frequently at notable academic conferences such as the International Computer Music Conference and the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States. He is also the Principal Double Bassist of the Des Moines Metro Opera Summer Festival Orchestra and since 2010 has been the Editor of BASS WORLD magazine, the journal of the International Society of Bassists
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Computer music
Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of computing technology in music composition; particularly that stemming from the Western art music tradition...
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Currently based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The University of Nebraska at Omaha is a four-year state university located in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Founded in 1908 as Omaha University, the institution became the public Municipal University of Omaha in 1931. It assumed its current name in 1968 following a merger into the University...
, Jeremy Baguyos holds the position of Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Artist-Faculty of Double Bass. As a college professor he teaches in all areas that combine music and digital audio technology. He directs research and creative activity in interactive computer music in both the College of Communication, Fine Arts, and Media and the College of Information Science and Technology.
His most notable contributions to the field are in the area of live performance combined with interactive computer technology. For the state of Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....
, Baguyos established the state's first interactive computer music ensemble, Ensemble A.M.I. (Artificial Music Initiative), in conjunction with its first and only electronic music festival featuring interactive computer music
Computer music
Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of computing technology in music composition; particularly that stemming from the Western art music tradition...
, Virtual Music Week. For his own instrument, the double bass, he was one of the early practitioners of interactive computer music performance on the double bass. Inspired by the early electronic pioneers such as Robert Black
Robert Black (bassist)
Robert Black is an East Coast-based double bassist, electric bassist, improvisor and educator.A student of the legendary Gary Karr, Black has performed with the Hartford Symphony, the Ciompi and Miami String Quartets and the orchestras of the Monadock and Moab Festivals. He is a founding member of...
and Bertram Turetzky
Bertram Turetzky
Bertram Turetzky is a contemporary American double bass soloist, teacher, and author of The Contemporary Contrabass , a book that looked at a number of new and interesting ways of playing the double bass including featuring it as a solo performance vehicle with no other instrumental...
, Baguyos studied computer music at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
It was at Peabody that he performed with the Peabody Computer Music Consort and collaborated with other students of computer music and established composers of computer music who shared his enthusiasm for the emerging art form. The result was the performance, between 2002 and 2005, of some of the first significant repertoire for double bass and interactive electronics and probably the very first double bass repertoire to utilize the MSP extensions to the Max (software)
Max (software)
Max is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. During its 20-year history, it has been widely used by composers, performers, software designers, researchers, and artists for creating innovative recordings,...
digital audio programming language. It is for this reason, his work differed from the few earlier experiments in interactive computer music for double bass. His realizations in public presentation were implemented in software as opposed to reliance on the much more limited hardware-based synthesis. He performed repertoire that utilized real-time audio capture and DSP, the use of automation in live performance, and simulations of musical machine intelligence. His experimental work in this area has been recorded on the "Music From SEAMUS" annual CD series of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States as well as his own solo CD released in 2005, "Uncoiled Oscillations," (OCD Media).
He continues, today, in the academic arena, as a recitalist, lecturer, composer, researcher, and author in interactive computer music and double bass. He appears frequently at notable academic conferences such as the International Computer Music Conference and the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States. He is also the Principal Double Bassist of the Des Moines Metro Opera Summer Festival Orchestra and since 2010 has been the Editor of BASS WORLD magazine, the journal of the International Society of Bassists
International Society of Bassists
The International Society of Bassists is a 501 not-for-profit organization for anybody who enjoys the double bass. The society was founded in 1967 by Gary Karr as the International Institute for String Bass...
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