Finding Aid for Sever Tipei Music and Papers, 1961-2015 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

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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

Browse by 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 data discs],
[Series 5: Computer Music Project Technology],
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Series 4: Performance Recordings and data discs

Box 12

Reel 1: "Amores" by John Cage, November 19, 1980
Reel 2: "And you Also..."--"Katastrophe", undated
Reel 3: "Clariphannies", undated
Reel 4: "Happy And", undated
Reel 5: "Happy And" drone, undated
Reel 6: "Happy And", "Vouie V", December 12, 1979
Reel 7: "Katastrophe", undated
Reel 8: "Lament", October 7, 1981
Reel 9: "Les Liasons Dangereuses", March 30, 1977
Reel 10: "Melopoeia", undated
Reel 11: "Music, Words, and Beyond", "Cuniculi", May 8, 1986
Reel 12: "Music You Can't Dance To", undated
Reel 13: NYU Players, 1 of 2, March 28, 1982
Reel 14: NYU Players, 2 of 2, March 28, 1982
Reel 15: "Portrait of the Artist...", undated: Jean Geil, Debra Zae Munn, Lucinda Lawrence-Powell, Connie Brown
Reel 16: "The Sophisticates", January 5, 1975
Reel 17: "Sphaera" by William ALbright, January 24, 1992
Reel 18: "Sphaera": tape part, January 27, 1992
Reel 19: Sever Tipei, piano plays, undated
Reel 20: "Translation", October 26, 1983
Reel 21: WDET Improv, undated
Item 22: Baseline Backup: /uand/U1, August 4, 1988
Item 23: Misc. Backups, January 27, 1989
Item 24: TAR backups, January 27, 1989
Item 25: Backup of Tipei RT /u filesystem tar, March 1, 1989
Item 26: /u2, March 12, 1989
Item 27: Misc. Backups, March 20, 1989
Item 28: AIX 2.1 Backup, December 18, 1989
Item 29: /u1, December 18, 1989
Item 30: /u tar, August 5, 1990
Item 31: /u2, August 5, 1990
Item 32: anfiles 8jwb, October 24, 1990
Item 33: 1,/usr,/scss TAPE 1 of 2, January 4, 1991
Item 34: 1,/usr,/scss TAPE 2 of 2, January 4, 1991
Item 35: /u2, March 3, 1991
Item 36: /u PART 1 tar backup, June 29, 1991
Item 37: /u PART 2 tar backup, June 29, 1991
Item 38: /u2 tar backup, June 29, 1991

Box 13

Item 1: 1) /NEXT/U/NEXTrootdis, October 13
Item 2: 2) /u2, August 30, 1999
Item 3: 2) /NEXT/u2, October 15
Item 4: 2) /NEXT/u2, November 18
Item 5: 3) /Next/u3, October 1
Item 6: 3) /NEXT/u3, October 19
Item 7: 3) /NEXT/US, November 12
Item 8: 3) ru3, November 17
Item 9: 4) /NEXT/u4, October 5
Item 10: 4) /NEXT/u4, October 19
Item 11: 4) /NEXT/u4, November 11
Item 12: 5) /Next/ U3, October 3
Item 13: 5) /NEXT/u5, October 20
Item 14: 6) /NEXT/U6 /NEXT/clicals, October 6
Item 15: 6) /NEXT/u6 /NEXT/clients, October 21
Item 16: 6) /NEXT/us/ NEXT/clients, April 14
Item 17: 7) RS, August 25
Item 18: 7) SGI/rootdir, October 6
Item 19: 7) SGI/rootdir, October 22
Item 20: 8) /SGI/U.sgi, February 3
Item 21: 8) /SGI/u.sgi, November 18
Item 22: 9) USR2.sgi, October 28
Item 23: 9) /SGI/usr2.sgi, November 19
Item 24: 9) usr2.sgi, undated
Item 25: 10) /timbre, October 8
Item 26: 10) /timbre, November 2
Item 27: 10) /timbre, November 21
Item 28: 11) /RS/rootdir, November 30
Item 29: 11) /RS/rootdir, November 7
Item 30: 11) /RS/roodir, undated
Item 31: 12) /RS/roousin/RS/ws, November 10
Item 32: 12) /RS/usr2/RS/rootdir, undated
Item 33: chp.nxt1:/u/users No. 2, undated
Item 34: dennely/Timbre, undated
Item 35: Donnacha, undated
Item 36: Old User Files, October 1, 1999
Item 37: test, undated
Item 38: TVS Demo / Opiei from Carrell, 1991
Item 39: /us/Sever/projects/Curses, January 5, 1998
Item 40: Walters next anch., undated
Item 41: Music 199 ST - Discovery: "Collective composition", Spring 2006
Item 42: "Dux Markovian and Tiens" Revisions, 2008
Item 43: "Electronic Masters" vol. 6, 2018
Item 44: "Funktasia: Music by Zack Browning and Sever Tipei", 2006
Item 45: "raw cuts: experimental music", 1 of 2, 1998
Item 46: "raw cuts: experimental music", 2 of 2, 1998
Item 47: "Transient Images", 2015
Item 48: "Trees", November 18, 2008
Item 49: "Trees", November 10

Box 14

Item 1: "Chamber Music", 1979-1985: "Fantasy" by David Liptak; "All for One" by Scott A. Wyatt; "Clariphannies" by Sever Tipei; "Akhanda" by Don Baker and Zack Browning
Item 2: "Cuniculi" for 5 Tubas, undated
Item 3: Dinu Ghezzo, Dolby A safety dub, undated
Item 4: "Many Words", undated

Box 15

Item 1: MP1, undated