Christopher K. Koenigsberg Music Page

updated for the first time in a long long while, Sat. 16 April 2005

first photo is from 1988, second photo is from 1986.

email me: ckk@ckk.com
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Please note: this page is still evolving, so please check in again soon!

Quick List of MP3's for downloading
Dreamt Of By Armadillos (DOBA)
Carsickness (Sat. 16 April 2005 note Carsickness MP3's have moved, to a new server with more space, at http://yinzer.net/Carsickness)
Rabbit Part Zen (RPZ)
my own solo work (CKK)

This (WAS -- this page is over 10 years old now!) intended to be a resource page to add to the growing Web links pertaining to music especially computer and avant garde music, plus to contribute some of my own writing.

• My band DOBA (Dreamt Of By Armadillos)
• My "Brains" computer music CD
  The "Brains" home page

  I've uploaded a rough essay I wrote on my piece The Rat's Nest, off my "Brains" CD.

  Here's an essay on LCM for 12 Piano Sample, a musical composition using the principle of linear superposition, and emergent melodic and rhythmic entities.

  To order a copy of my "Brains" CD, contact the The Electronic Music Foundation
  Foundation at CDeMUSIC@emf.org or call +1-518-434-4110 and ask for Item # PW-100.

• My MFA Thesis "The Insane and the Technical: Comments on My Music", NEWLY UPLOADED, STILL BUGGY! final version submitted in May 1993 to Mills College Music Department, Center for Contemporary Music
• My 1991 paper Karlheinz Stockhausen's Morphology of Musical Time
• My old rock band "Carsickness" in which I played bass from 1980-1984
  The not-so-new Carsickness home page

• My old record label TMI Products (1980-1984)

  There were 20 vinyl products out on the TMI label by the end of 1984 (pre-dating the dawn of the CD)

• My days at Mills College in the Bay Area
  In 1993, I received the M.F.A. in Electronic Music from the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) The music from my MFA Thesis Concert, presented in April 1993, is now available on my "Brains" CD.

  At Mills I interacted with faculty like Chris Brown, John Bischoff, Maggi Payne, Willie Winant, David Bernstein, Alvin Curran , and with wonderful fellow students like Gian-Luca Baldi, Makiko Nishikaze, Tom Dambly, Donna McCabe , Tim Walters , David Kwan, and Greg Lenczycki .

  I also took a wonderful seminar in Music Perception and Cognition from David Wessel at U.C. Berkeley CNMAT.

  In the San Francisco Bay Area I found a thriving free improvisation scene, exemplified by the band Pluto which I almost joined for a while, and the group Splatter Trio, on the independent Rastascan Records label. A good Web page on the local scene is Dan Plonsey's.

• My old free improvisation group Morphic Resonance
  The original Morphic Resonance Trio, founded in 1984, was Ben Opie on saxophone, Jason Gibbs on bassoon, and me on (acoustic) contrabass. Ben moved to Baltimore and Jason moved to San Francisco. I tried to carry on the tradition.

  May 1996: Manny Theiner, in conjunction with RRR Records, may re-release the Morphic Resonance Trio's classic "Suite 601" cassette, this summer. Stay tuned for more developments.

  The new Morphic Resonance Ensemble, which begun in 1988 or so, evolved as Peter Velikinja on oboe, Roger Dannenberg on trumpet and MIDI-controlled Yamaha TX802 FM synth rack, Dean Rubine (still trying to locate his present Net whereabouts) on "Monster Feedback" of rackmounted analog effects, myself on (amplified) contrabass and Buchla Thunder, plus Yun Wang as occasional guest poet. Ben Opie also rejoined the new Ensemble upon returning to Pittsburgh from Baltimore.

• My old Indian pop/folk band Anamika
  Prashant Rao , the lead singer/tabla player, is now here at the U. of Chicago so we might start up something new here...

I have participated personally in a number of different genres of music performance, which don't overlap too much usually.

• Free improvisation and "noise" (bass, Buchla Thunder, etc.)
• punk and New Wave (electric bass)
• rock and roll and pop music (electric bass)
• jazz (upright and electric bass)
• Musician's Union professional symphony orchestra (former member of the bass section of the Wheeling Symphony in Wheeling, West Virginia, Rachel Worby conductor)
• amateur symphony orchestras (Carnegie Symphony at Carnegie Hall in Carnegie, Pa.)
• theatrical "pit orchestra" (upright bass in "Cole!" also "La Cage Aux Folles")
• solo classical guitar
• solo Flamenco guitar
• bluegrass and "Old Time"
• "20th Century" avant-garde chamber music
• electro-acoustic ("acousmatic") tape composition
• Indian (Hindi/Tamil/Bengali) pop/folk music

I've also worked in other aspects of music besides performance

• recording studio production and engineering
• independent record label business
• 505-C3 non-profit organization administration (I served on the Board of Directors, of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble).

Musical Philosophy in the Age of Digital Audio and Cryptography

I have an interest in musical aesthetics and the philosophy of music, especially after late 20th century developments in digital audio technology and cognitive science and cryptography etc. I have been doing some readings in these and other related areas.

I used to be involved in the "improvisation" scene, but more recently I began investigating the notion of "composition" as it applies (?) in the field of computer music, working with sounds and events rather than "notes" in the traditional Western harmonic fashion.

• Placeholder for links to Web pages and archives on interesting stuff:
  Brian Eno
  John Cage
  Music on the Internet
  

• Preliminary placeholder for Bibliography:

  Robin Maconie:
  ???? musical aesthetics book, have to look up the title at home
  Stockhausen on Music
  

  ?? Kivy:
  The Fine Art of Repetition
  

  Lydia Goehr:
  The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works
  

  Diana Raffman:
  Music, Language, and Mind
  

  note that both Goehr and Raffman comment (critically) on Goodman's semiotic theory of musical aesthetics

  Richard Kostelantz:
  Conversations with Cage
  Nicholas Slonimsky:
  The First Hundred Years
  ???:
  A History of Western Musical Aesthetics Since 1800
  

Cognitive Science

Links concerning music perception and cognition (needs sorting by subjects):
Auditory Perception:Demonstrations and Experiments
Henkjan Honing and Peter Desain's rhythmic perception references

I'll try to put up a rudimentary bibliography here soon, of what I've been reading.

Authors:

Arthur Bregman:
Auditory Scene Analysis

Daniel C. Dennett:
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Consciousness Explained
Dennett and his Critics
The Intentional Stance

Richard Dawkins:
The Selfish Gene (2nd edition, rev. 1989)

?????:
The Red Queen

?????:
The Moral Animal

Stephen Pinkett(?):
The Language Instinct

Murray Gell-Mann:
The Quark and the Jaguar

Cryptography, Wavelets, Compression, etc.

Audio File Format FAQ
Audio FAQ
Compression FAQ
Digital Signal Processing FAQ

What do "Cypherpunks" and PGP have to do with Digital Signal Processing, Audio file formats, or Compression technology?

In music there are questions about identity, "authorship", derivation, appropriation, "sampling", etc. and I am exploring the realm of cryptography especially relating to "Digital Signatures" and "Checksums" to see if there is any relevance to musical "composition" and "theory".

I also did some reading in digital signal processing, Wavelet Transform theory, generalized time-frequency representations, etc.

There is a growing body of "online music" in various forms now, so all the questions about file formats and Internet file transfer are relevant to music.

This will grow into a more organized collection of links to references on audio file formats and music protocols.

• AIFF and AIFF_C audio formats.
• Standard MIDI files, which depend on the "General MIDI" instrument convention.
• Music Notation formats like SMDL/"HyTime"
• The new ZIPI protocol
• CSound and CMix and CMusic and Nyquist
• MPEG Audio archives like the IUMA
• .AU or .WAV low-resolution audio files
• CNMAT's new SDIFF Spectral Description Interchange File Format.

Other Computer Music Links

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