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By Kelli McQueen
Collection Overview
Title: Sever Tipei Music and Papers, 1961-2015
ID: 12/5/78
Primary Creator: Tipei, Sever
Extent: 15.15 cubic feet
Arrangement: Organized in five series: Series 1: Computer Music Project Administrative Records; Series 2: Sever Tipei Personal Papers; Series 3: Coursework and Instructional Materials; Series 4: Performance Recordings and Digital Audio Tapes (DAT); Series 5: Computer Music Project Technology. Series 2 constists of two subseries: Subseries 1: Adiministrative Papers, including grant applications, conference presentations, and faculty appointments, organized chronologically; Subseries 2: Sheet Music, Scores, and Concert Programs, organized alphabetically by title. Series 3 consists of two subseries: Subseries 1: Sever Tipei's Course Materials, organized by course number; Subseries 2: James Beauchamp's course materials and articles.
Date Acquired: 06/28/2021
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of the music and papers of Sever Tipei and James W. Beauchamp. Sever Tipei is an emeritus professor of music composition theory and the director of the University of Illinois' Computer Music Project. James Beauchamp is an emeritus professor of electrical engineering and music. Beauchamp was the director the Experimental Music Studios from 1969-1972, and co-founder of the Computer Music Project.
Biographical Note
Sever Tipei was born in Bucharest, Romania, immigrated to the United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1978. He holds degrees in composition from the University of Michigan and in piano performance from the Bucharest Conservatory (now National University of Music at Bucharest). Sever Tipei has been teaching since 1978 at the University of Illinois School of Music where he directs the Computer Music Project. MP1, his program for computer-assisted composition in use between 1973 and 1998, was the first such program to be implemented on a supercomputer ( NCSA 's CRAY X-MP), in 1986. Sever Tipei also had a Faculty Appointment (visiting scientist) at the Argonne National Laboratory between 1994 and 2003. In collaboration with Hans Kaper, Senior Mathematician (now retired), at Argonne Tipei worked on developing an Environment for Music Composition (EMC), that included software for composition, sound synthesis, automatic music notation, and visualization of music in a virtual environment. Tipei and Kaper have also pursued the sonification of complex scientific data. A more recent project, DISSCO, a Digital Instrument for Sound Synthesis and Composition, available on Github.com represents a unified approach to composition and sound synthesis.
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Acquisition Source:
Sever Tipei
Acquisition Method:
Gift
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Computer Music Project Administrative Records],
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Series 2: Sever Tipei Personal Papers],
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Series 3: Coursework and Instructional Materials],
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Series 4: Performance Recordings and data discs],
[
Series 5: Computer Music Project Technology],
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All]
- Series 1: Computer Music Project Administrative Records
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Computer Music Project Research, 1944-2001
- Folder 2: Correspondence with Jack McKenzie and Iannis Xenakis, 1966-1990
- Folder 3: "A User's Manual for the Stochastic Music Propgram" by Bruce Rogers, June 1972
- Folder 4: Experimental Music Studio budget, letters, newspaper clipping, 1976-1984
- Folder 5: National Endowment of the Arts grant application, 1980-1984
- Folder 6: Computer Music Project letters and Research Board Application, 1981-1987
- Folder 7: Research Board Application for RA in Computer Music-Printing System, 1983-1989
- Folder 8: Grant Applications, 1983-1990
- Folder 9: Experimental Music Studios 25th Anniversary records, 1984
- Folder 10: First Annual Composition Competition (FACC), 1984
- Folder 11: Directory of Scholars in Artificial Intelligence Applications on Supercomputers, 1985
- Folder 12: User Manuals: Computer Music Project and G-RAPH, 1985-1986
- Folder 13: Visiting Scholar Aureliu G. Stroe letters and documents, 1985-1986
- Folder 14: Proposal "A Digital Instrument for Additive Synthesis on Supercomputers", 1985-1992
- Folder 15: Excel Project, 1885
- Folder 16: Excel Project, 1986
- Folder 17: Applicant letters for Excel RA-ship, 1986
- Folder 18: Computer Music Workshop administrative documents, 1986
- Folder 19: University of Illinois Foundation funding applications and letters, 1987
- Folder 20: Computer Music Workshop, August 13-22, 1987
- Folder 21: International Computer Music Conference, 1987
- Folder 22: International Computer Music Conference, 1987
- Folder 23: International Computer Music Conference Exhibitors and Sponsers, 1987
- Folder 24: Meet the Composer-Arts Midwest: Hiller and Albright, 1987
- Box 2
- Folder 1: International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 1987
- letters, notes, documents
- Folder 2: Illinois Arts Council Application for ICMC, 1987
- Folder 3: ICMC application and budget proposal, 1987
- Folder 4: ICMC - AT&T Reception, 1987
- Folder 5: ICMC conference multimedia notes, 1987
- Folder 6: ICMC Publicity, 1987
- Folder 7: ICMC - Concerts Selection Process, 1987
- Folder 8: Brochure Correspondence, 1987
- Folder 9: Consortium to Distribute Computer Music - Larry Austin correspondence, 1987-1991
- Folder 10: Brunswick Foundation funding application and letters, 1988
- Folder 11: National Center for Supercomputing Applications: Summer Workshop at U of I, 1989
- Folder 12: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1989
- Folder 13: National Endowment for the Arts: Equipment Grant, 1986-1987
- Folder 14: National Endowment for the Arts: application and letters, 1984-1987
- IBM equipment grant
- Folder 15: Beckmam Institute Newsletters and correspondence, 1988-1992
- Folder 16: Advanced Scientific Computing and Technical Education Research applications, 1989-1993
- Folder 17: Wiring Diagrams, 1991
- Folder 18: Research Board Proposals: "Digital Instrument for Additive Synthesis", 1991-1992
- Folder 19: Request for Equipment: IBM Ultimate Audio Adapter RS/6000 375, 1993
- Folder 20: Computer Music Project user manuals, 1993-1994
- Folder 21: Research Board Proposal and graduate student applications, 1993-1995
- Folder 22: Educational Technologies Board Grant application materials, 1994
- Folder 23: Research Board Proposals and letters, 1995-1998
- Folder 24: Individual Investigation LDRD Program application, 1996
- Folder 25: UIUC Campus Research Board application and letters, 1997-1999
- Folder 26: Education Technologies Board grant letters and application, 1998
- Folder 27: FAA Computing for the Arts, 1998
- Folder 28: RA Jobs letters and applications, 1998-1999
- Folder 29: Research Board applications and letters, 1997-2000
- Folder 30: Historical Marker for Computer Music, 2000
- Folder 31: Research Board grant application, 2000-2001
- Folder 32: CFAC computing policy committee, November 5, 2007
- Folder 33: NSF: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation, 2007-2010
- Folder 34: NCSA: UIUC Fellowship application, 2008
- Folder 35: Research Board Application and IMCN: McGill and FAA Creative Research Award, 2009
- Folder 36: Campus Research Board: CMP CD, 2014-2015
- Folder 37: Computer Music Project upgrade, 2015
- Folder 38: Computer Music Project 35th Anniversary funding letters, 2018
- Folder 39: Computer Music Project policies, undated
- Box 16
- Folder 1: Lejaren Hiller and Robert Barker at the music typewriter, 1961
- Folder 2: Salvatore Martirano and the SAL-MAR Construction, 1970s
- Folder 3: James Beauchamp at the PDP5 computer, 1974
- Folder 4: Herbert Brun and pipe, undated
- Folder 5: Sever Tipei compiling MP1 data, undated
- Oversize Portfolio Case 1
- Folder 1: Event posters, 1983-1988
- Item 1: Two Concerts in Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Experimental Music Studios, December 7, 1983
- Item 2: Soundshapes Combined Media in Composition, May 8, 1987
- Item 3: Changes: New Music in Recognition of John Cage's 75th Birthday, 1987-1988
- Item 4: International Computer Music Conference, August 23-26, 1987
- Folder 2: Event Posters, 1990-1997
- Item 1: Information Art: Diagramming Microchips, September 6-October 30, 1990
- Item 2: National Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US, October 24-26, 1991
- Item 3: 19th Annual Internation Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, July 1992
- Item 4: Music, Media, and Movement: The 1993 Seamus Music Conference, March 31-April 3, 1993
- Item 5: +522 Composers and Computers: An On-Going Collaboration, March 12, 1997
- Folder 3: Event Posteres and Photograph, undated
- Item 1: Indy Silicon Graphics, undated
- Item 2: Iannis Xenakis, undated
- poster of photograph
- Item 3: High Performance Computing and Music Composition, undated
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Computer Music Project Administrative Records],
[
Series 2: Sever Tipei Personal Papers],
[
Series 3: Coursework and Instructional Materials],
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Series 4: Performance Recordings and data discs],
[
Series 5: Computer Music Project Technology],
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All]
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