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Collection Overview

Title: Sever Tipei Music and Papers, 1961-2015

ID: 12/5/78

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

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[Series 1: Computer Music Project Administrative Records],
[Series 2: Sever Tipei Personal Papers],
[Series 3: Coursework and Instructional Materials],
[Series 4: Performance Recordings and data discs],
[Series 5: Computer Music Project Technology],
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Series 2: Sever Tipei Personal Papers

Sub-Series 1: Administrative Papers

Box 3

Folder 1: International Computer Conferences, 1978-1987
Folder 2: Musical Score Submissions - correspondence, 1979-1989
Folder 3: Guggenheim Fellowship application and letters, 1981-1997
Folder 4: American New Music Consortium Festival, June 1984
Folder 5: IRCAM: International Computer Music Conference, 1984
Folder 6: ICMC - Vancouver, 1985
Folder 7: Midwestern Composers Symposium, April 19-20, 1985
Folder 8: ICMH and ICCH, 1986-1987
Folder 9: Center For Advanced Study grant applications, 1986-2000
Folder 10: Computers in Music Research Conference, 1988
Folder 11: International Computer Music Composition "Manifold Compositions", 1989
Folder 12: New Music and Arts Festival - Bowling Green, November 9, 1989
Folder 13: Conferences and Festivals Travel Funding, 1989
Folder 14: Midwest Composers Symposium, November 10-11, 1989
Folder 15: Illinois Arts Council applications, 1989-1992
Folder 16: National Endowment for the Arts applications, 1989-1994
Folder 17: National Center for Supercomputing applications, 1990
Folder 18: Southwest Texas State University Music Festival and Conference, November 12-16, 1990
Folder 19: Computer scores advertisement, November 16, 1990
Folder 20: Grant writing workshop, 1990
Folder 21: association for Computers and the Humanities, 3rd Biennial Conference, 1990
Folder 22: Second International Symposium on Electronic Art (SISEA), 1990
Folder 23: New Music Festival - DANA, "Manifolds" presentation and travel documents, 1991
Folder 24: Juniata College, PA - presentation, letters, documents, September 9, 1991
Folder 25: Computer Workshop - Gubbio, 1991
Folder 26: International Computer Music conference, 1991
Folder 27: NYU - presentation and travel funds, 1991-1994
Folder 28: Illinois Arts Council - Arts tour applications, 1991-1997
Folder 29: Forum on Romanian Music, November 9, 1992
Folder 30: International Festival of New Music - Moldova, 1992
Folder 31: Romania - letters, documents, photographs, 1993-1996
Folder 32: "Sounds Encounters: The Festival" Society for Composers, April 15-18, 1993
Folder 33: Argonne National Library programs and applications, 1993-1999
Folder 34: College of Fine and Applied Arts Special Grant Request, 1993-2008

Box 4

Folder 1: Asian Contemporary Music Festival performance - Korea, 1993
Folder 2: Midwest Slavic Conference - Michigan State, 1993
Folder 3: Rice University - Houston, Texas, January 20-24, 1993: presentation and travel documents
Folder 4: ICMC - Aarhus, Denmark, 1994
Folder 5: Proposal for a Radio Show, 1994
Folder 6: ICMC - Banff, Canada, 1995
Folder 7: ICMC - Banff Paper (poster), 1995
Folder 8: Critical Research Initiatives Program application, 1995-1996
Folder 9: ICMC - Hong Kong, 1996
Folder 10: Critical Research Initiatives Application, 1997
Folder 11: Argonne National Laboratory application, 1997
Folder 12: ICMC - Greece, 1997
Folder 13: The International Conference on Computer Design (ICAD), 1997: articles, participation list, program
Folder 14: Composer's Forum, 1997, 1999
Folder 15: University of Chicago - Argonne National Laboratory seed grant application, 1997
Folder 16: International Study for Computing in the Arts, 1997-1998: proposal, letters, lecture notes
Folder 17: ICMC - Ann Arbor, 1998
Folder 18: ICAD - "Scientific Sonification with DIASS", 1998
Folder 19: ISCM days in Romania letter, July 12, 1999
Folder 20: Arts International - Romania ISCM World Days, 1999: budget and application materials
Folder 21: Journee d'Informatique Musicale (JIM), 1999
Folder 22: International Computer Conference China "Formalizing the Concept of Sound", 1999
Folder 23: NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows Program application, 1999-2000
Folder 24: The Structure of Sound Information Channel grant application, 2000
Folder 25: ICMC - Berlin, 2000
Folder 26: CAS presentation "Music Composition, Sound Synthesis, and Sonification of Complex Data Sets", November 16, 2000
Folder 27: Enescu Symposium "Between Oedipus and Odysseus", 2000-2005
Folder 28: Honor's Symposium, 2000-2001
Folder 29: NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows Program grant applications, 2001
Folder 30: Beckman Talk, September 20, 2001
Folder 31: ITR/HCI: The Structure of Sound as an Information Channel, 2001
Folder 32: ASA - Chicago, June 6, 2001
Folder 33: ICMC: "Loudness Scaling in a Digital Instrument", 2002
Folder 34: An "Incorrect" Forum, December 10, 2002
Folder 35: UIUC Scholars Travel Fund: "Control and Randomness in Musical Composition", 2002
Folder 36: IRCAM: "Sound Design", 2004
Folder 37: ICMC - Miami, 2004
Folder 38: ICMC: Scholars Travel fund, 2010, 2013, 2016
Folder 39: Conference Presentation in Iasi, Romania, 2010: "Concieving Music Today: Manifold Compositions, DISSCO, and Beyond"
Folder 40: Research Board Application "Sculpting Sound", 2011
Folder 41: NCSA IACAT fellowship, 2012
Folder 42: UIUC Campus Research Board, 2013
Folder 43: "Complex Dynamic Systems" - WOCMAT, 2015
Folder 44: SMC - Hamburg: "Emerging Composition", 2016
Folder 45: ICMC - Barcelona, 2005
Folder 46: Center for Advanced Study application, 2005
Folder 47: ICMC - Tulane, 2006
Folder 48: UIUC Campus Research Board Travel Fund, FAA Creative Research Award
Folder 49: UIUC Campus Research Board travel fund and ICMC, 2010-2012
Folder 50: FAA Creative Research Awards, 2012
Folder 51: NCSA and Composers Forum, March 3, 2015: "Music, Collaborations, and Sewing Machines", "High Performance Computing in Music Composition and Sound Design"
Folder 52: SEAMUS composer contract, August 20, 2015
Folder 53: Campus Research Board application: "Complex Dynamic System", August 2015
Folder 54: Center for Advanced Study application: "Mirrored", October 2, 2018
Folder 55: NCSA Fellows, 2019
Folder 56: "What am I Doing" presentation slides and transparencies, undated
Folder 57: "Computer Assisted Composition" presentation and slides, undated

Box 5

Folder 1: School of Music Faculty Appointment letters, 1978-1999
Folder 2: Professional correspondence, recommendations, thank you cards, 1978-2009
Folder 3: Composers Forum "MPI - A Computer Program for Composition", February 21, 1983
Folder 4: Sabbatical letters and reports, 1984-1999
Folder 5: Tenure and Promotion, 1991
Folder 6: Composition-Theory Divison Meeting Notes, 1994
Folder 7: Composition-Theory Divison Meeting Notes, 1995-1996
Folder 8: School of Music Faculty Appointments, 2000-2019
Folder 9: Sabbatical application and report, 2004-2006
Folder 10: Application to California Institute for the Arts, 2007
Folder 11: Papers by Sever Tipei, 1972-1989
Folder 12: "Non-sequential TIme in the Compositional Process" article and notes, 1984
Folder 13: Computing in Science and Engineering article "Data Sonification", 1998
Folder 14: "Data Sonification and Sound Visualization" reprint, 1999
Folder 15: "A Learning System for DIASS", 1999
Folder 16: P.M.1.a flow diagram-original, undated
Folder 17: "Slavic Review"-peer reviewed and edited article, 1988
Folder 18: "Solving Specific Compositional Problems with MPI" - draft, 1983
Folder 19: "Sonification Report: Status of the Field"- "Sonification of Scientific Data", 1998-1999
Folder 20: "Music, Words, and Beyond" concert program, notes, newspaper clippings, May 8, 1986
Folder 21: Concert Programs and thankyou letters, 1987-2019
Folder 22: ORPHEUS software business letters, 1987
Folder 23: Veriatza recording project, 1987
Folder 24: WILL Second Sunday Concert letters, program, notes, 1992
Folder 25: Recording Project Tirreno Group Editoriale - letters, fax, memos, 1 of 2, 1995-1997
Folder 26: Recording Project Tirreno Group Editoriale - letters, fax, memos, 2 of 2, 1995-1997
Folder 27: Sonic Residues concert program, 1997
Folder 28: Browning/Tipei Duo - notes, letters, recital program, undated

Sub-Series 2: Sheet Music, Scores, and Concert Programs

Box 6

Folder 1: "AGA matter" score and article, undated
Folder 2: "ANL-folds" score, 1996
Folder 3: "Cage Variations-Maverick", December 8, 2002
Folder 4: "Cantus Interruptus" score, 1994
Folder 5: "Clariphannies" score and article, 1980-1988
Folder 6: "Cunicull" score transparenccies, undated
Folder 7: "Cuniculi", 1985
Folder 8: "Cuniculi" stage notes, 1987
Folder 9: "Curses (Blesteme)" score and notes, 1996
Folder 10: "Dad Cabaret" and "Manifest i" - performance stage notes, undated
Folder 11: "Dux Markovians and Tress", undated
Folder 12: "Funktasia" and "Stripped Throat", 2003-2007
Folder 13: "HB with G & B" - "Translation for Voice, Clarinet, and Piano", undated
Folder 14: "HB with G & E" score, 2010
Folder 15: "Happy And" score, undated
Folder 16: "Ianus" Instrumental Parts, 1 of 2, 2006
Folder 17: "Ianus" Instrumental Parts, 2 of 2, 2006
Folder 18: "Jewel Steps Grievance" score, 2011
Folder 19: "Lament" score and article, 1979-1994
Folder 20: "Maiden Voyages (I)" score and notebook, 1984
Folder 21: "Maiden Voyages" presentation and score, 1985
Folder 22: "Maiden Voyages (II)" score and article, 1985
Folder 23: "Maiden Voyages - A Score Produced with MP1", 1986
Folder 24: "Memories of Thoughts Past" score and parts, 1991
Folder 25: MP1 -notes and printouts, 1 of 2, 1992
Folder 26: MP1 - notes and printouts, 2 of 2, 1992
Folder 27: "Portrait of the Artists as a Young Woman Killing Herself with a coup de telephone", 1994
Folder 28: New Record document for "Raw Cuts", February 19, 2002
Folder 29: "Rumage Sale", 1975
Folder 30: "Sound in C" - notes, undated
Folder 31: "UI0622 MWDAT1 BIN 05", December 1, 1989
Folder 32: Composition Sketches on manuscript paper, undated

Box 7

Folder 1: "Cuniculi: For Five Tubas", 1986
Folder 2: "Dux Markovians and Tress", "HB with G & E", "Ianus, 2002-2010
Folder 3: "Happy And", "Kings Nap", undated
Folder 4: "Les Liasons Dangereux", "Many Worlds", "Melopoeia", "Musica Natura", 1985-1989
Folder 5: "Never Mind" - "Reconnaissances Pour Gerard", 1978: "Never Mind"; "On the Church of St. John of the Studion"; "Pardon my Motski"; "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman"; "Reconnaissances Pour Gerard"
Folder 6: "Translation for Voice, Clarinet, and Piano"-"Toaca", undated
Folder 7: "Undulating Michigamme", undated
Folder 8: Newspaper articles, promotional materials, 1986-2001
Folder 9: Concert prorams and Photograph, 1975-1978

Box 8

Folder 1: "Canto CXVI", "Cuniculi", "Clariphanies", 1980-1986
Folder 2: "L'Execration du Pere-Mere", 2002
Folder 3: "HB with G & E", undated
Folder 4: "Maiden Voyages", 1984
Folder 5: "Melopoeia: A Song for Sappho", undated
Folder 6: "Nevermind", "Reconaissance pour Gerard", "Popea", undated
Folder 7: "Three Improvisations", "Toaca", "Translation", 1976-2004
Folder 8: "Undulating Michigamme", 1976-1978
Folder 9: Conference and concert posters, 2003