Bill Alves

Professional Information

Education

• 1986 - 1990 Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, University of Southern California.
  
• 1984 - 1986 Master of Music in Composition, University of Southern California.
  
• 1978 - 1982 Bachelor of Music in Composition and Bachelor of Science in Computer and Informational Sciences, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
  

Positions

• 1995 - Professor of Music, Harvey Mudd College
  
• 2000 - 2003 Associated Faculty, Claremont Graduate University
  
• 1993 - 1994 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta
  
• 1991 - 1995 Lecturer, Scripps College
  
• 1986 - 1993 Lecturer, University of Southern California
  
• 1989 - 1993 Research Fellow - Multimedia Specialist, Center for Scholarly Technology, University of Southern California
  

Residencies

• 2011 Featured Guest Artist, Lipa Festival of Contemporary Music, Iowa State University
  
• 2010 Porter College Distinguished Artist in Residence, University of California Santa Cruz
  
• 2002 Composer/Researcher in Residence, University of Wollonggong, Australia
  
• 1991 Luso-American Cultural Commission Visiting Scholar, Escola Superior de Musica - Instituto Politecnico do Porto, Portugal
  
• Other past positions: Asian music consultant, research assistant, computer programmer, pianist, organist, harpsichord tuner, arranger, copyist.

Discography and Videography

• Guitars & Gamelan (CD-audio), MicroFest Records, 2015.
• The Question Mark's Black Ink included on Five Conversations About Two Things (CD-audio), Populist Records, 2014.
• Mystic Canyon (CD-audio), MicroFest Records, 2013.
• Celestial Dance (dvd), Kinetica Video Library, 2012.
• Imbal-Imbalan (CD-audio), Spectral Harmonies SHCD-001, 2008.
• Static Cling included on Video Works from SEAMUS (dvd), SEAMUS, 2006.
• aleph included on Computer Music Journal Sound and Video Anthology (dvd) 2005.
• aleph included on Visual Music from Iota (dvd), Iotacenter, 2005.
• Static Cling included on One Iota (videotape), Iotacenter, 2001.
• Computer Video Works by Bill Alves (videotape), distributed by Iotacenter, 2000.
• Static Cling and Hiway 70 (videos), internet distribution by CinemaNow.com, 2000-2005.
• Chanson Triste (arrangement of Tchaikovsky) included on Momentos: Da Camerata de Jaragu‡ do Sul (CD-audio), 1999.
• In-yo, included on ICMC '99 Beijing, China (CD-audio), International Computer Music Conference ISRC CN-A18-99-0077/A, 1999. (Selected by ICMC '99 Music Jury).
• Just on Time, included on tuning@eartha.mills.edu: A Microtonal Music Experience (CD-audio), 1998.
• The Terrain of Possibilities (CD-audio). Electronic Music Foundation EMF CD-002, 1997.
• Time Auscultations included on Rational Music for an Irrational World (cassette). Just Intonation Network, 1990.

Publications

• Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick (with Brett Campbell). Indiana University Press, 2017.
• Music of the Peoples of the World. Schirmer/Cengage, 2005. Third edition 2012.
• "Consonance and Dissonance in Visual Music." Organised Sound 17/2 (Fall 2012): 114Ð119.
• "Correspondences and Complementarity in Visual Music," Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Symposium of Arts and Technology, 2010.
• Liner notes for Lou Harrison: Por Gitaro. New York: Mode Records 195, 2008. Also, separate website, "The Tuning of Por Gitaro: Suites for Tuned Guitars."
• "Digital Harmony of Sound and Light," Computer Music Journal 29/4 (Winter 2005): 49-58.
• Review of Lou Harrison Keyboard Works, American Music 23/4 (Winter 2005): 536-539.
• "The Electronic Works of Frederick Lesemann," SEAMUS Journal 17/1-2 (Spring 2005): 34-38.
• "Pocket gamelan: developing the instrumentarium for an extended harmonic universe," with Greg Schiemer (principal author), Stephen James Taylor, and Mark Havryliv. Presented at International Computer Music Conference, Singapore 2003.
• "The Journey of Light and Darkness in Toby Twining's Chrysalid Requiem," 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network 11/3 (Autumn 2003): 1-9.
• "Kembangan in the Music of Lou Harrison," Perspectives of New Music 9 #2 (Summer 2001) 29-56.
• Review of Uncommon Practices by David Doty. 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network 10 No. 5 (Fall 2000) 16-17.
• Hiway 70, computer music composition score, in The Csound Book CD-ROM edited by Richard Boulanger. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2000.
• "Csound-based Microtonal Synthesis and Control with MIDI," Chapter in The Csound Book CD-ROM edited by Richard Boulanger. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2000.
• "Postmodern Music," Seni [Indonesian Arts Journal] (December 1996), 25-37.
  
• "Pleng: Composing for a Justly Tuned Gender Barung," Presented at the Fourth International Symposium and Festival of Intercultural Music, London, April 1996. Published in Intercultural Music 4 (2001) 33-56, rpt. in 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network (Spring 1997) 1, 4-11.
  
• Arrangement of Sonata in E minor for Cello and String Orchestra by Antonio Vivaldi. National Cello Institute Publications, 1996.
• Review of Imbas Forasnai: Chanting the Light of Foresight by Terry Riley, 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network , 9, No. 2 (October 1995) 14-15.
  
• Audio demonstration of Balinese music, for Balancing Acts, a traveling museum exhibit produced by the California Museum of Science and Industry.
  
• "Multicultural Elements in Music Composition," Seni [Indonesian Arts Journal] (Spring 1994).
  
• Review of Coda Finale 3.0 Music Notation Software, Music Library Association Notes (March 1994), 1052-1054.
  
• Arrangement of Chanson Triste by Piotr Tchaikovsky for cello and string orchestra. National Cello Institute Publications, 1993.
• "Can We Live With Market-Driven Arts Alone?," Chorus! (July 1991) 16.
  
• "Key Characteristics and Pitch Sets in Composing with Just Intonation," 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network, 6, No. 3 (Summer 1990), 1, 6-8, 14.
  
• Review of Computer Applications in Music: A Bibliography by Deta M. Davis, Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States Journal, 4, No. 1 (April 1989), 10-11.
  
• "The Just Tuning System of Nicola Vicentino," 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network, 5, No. 2 (Spring 1989), 8-13.
  
• With Brett Campbell: "The Emancipation of the Consonance: Post-Modern Music," Duende (November 1988), 19-21, 28-29.