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...rock band Fat Day. Also well known as a Science Center technician and an Escort Service driver. (It was Matt, incidentally, who, while he was recording Science B-15, used to shake the camera every time E.O. wilson talked about sex.) Favorite class at Harvard was Music 178ar, Ivan Tcherepnin's "Composition in the Digital Electronic Medium." Maximum Rock `n' Roll magazine described his singing on the first Fat Day single as "a really young male or a female with great vocals...
Davidovsky said yesterday he will expand Harvard's electronic music studio, which has been operating under Senior Lecturer in Music Ivan A. Tcherepnin...
...enrolled in the class to find an alternative to the commercial fare. "I got disgusted with the pounding regularity of popular music," she says, adding that her interest was also sparked by her experience in Visual and Environmental Studies 158r, "Sound and Image." Co--taught in alternate years by Tcherepnin and VES Professor Alfred F. Guzzetti, the VES course combines electronic music with visual imagery. The result is in many ways similar to the multimedia, performance-art concept pioneered by artists like Laurie Anderson...
Though acknowledging the influence of Anderson on his course, Tcherepnin says composer John Cage is the "patron saint of Music 159r." The works of such artists as Brian Eno and Philip Glass are also among the most important developments in the genre in recent years, says Tcherepnin. But recent popular electronic creations have deviated from the experimental norm established by pioneering artists, say students in Music 159r. Tcherepnin and students agree that the germinating influences by figures like Cage have been redirected toward more commercial goals. "Artists don't control their own creativity anymore," says Tcherepnin. "The real trick...
...analog room serves as a home for the infamous Serge Synthesizer. Created by Tcherepnin's brother, Serge, this complex unit--consisting of about a dozen small boxes interconnected by a web of wires--is the nerve center of a facility including mixers and tape decks. Though students with no experience can play digital synthesizers most easily, Tcherepnin says he stresses the importance of using the analog electronics to understand the fundamentals of creating sounds. "Disorientation is very important," says Tcherepnin. "You must learn to ride a horse instead of letting it ride you." Although Harvard's equipment...