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Introducing the Leonardo Music lournal Editorial Board J Larry Austin is a composer, teacher, computer-music practitioner, author and entrepreneur. He directed the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) at the Universityof North Texas in Denton from 1981to 1991. He is the current president of the International Computer Music Association. His works, widely performed, are recorded on Columbia, Irida, Folkways, Source, Advance and Centaur and are published by Peer International, MJQ Music, Semar Editore, Sonic Arts Editions and American Composers Alliance. Jody Diamondis a composer, performer, writer and educator specializing in Indonesian contemporary music and related developments worldwide. She is Director of the American Gamelan Institute and editor of Balungan, an international journal of Southeast Asian performing arts. She was a Senior Fulbright scholar in Indonesia in 19881989and is now on the music facultyof Dartmouth College. E l l i s Freedman is of counsel to the New York law firm of Whitman & Ransom. He has represented composers for many years and is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Composers Orchestra,The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Virgil Thomson Foundation, and The Charles IvesSociety.In addition,he isSecretary ofThe Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and is actively involved with other organizations in the music world. Graeme Gerrard is a composer of electroacoustic music and a lecturer in music technology and composition at the Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Melbourne . He founded the Australian Computer Music Association in 1989; currently President of the Association, he also edits and publishes its quarterly newsletter, Chroma.He is presently developing a microcomputer-based performance system for real-time digital signal processing. John Michael Grey is a composer, keyboardist, psyche acoustician and specialistin digital applications in audioand music. After studying psychology at Stanford University,he co-founded the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford. He presently directs research for Good Sound Foundation and Rebit, Inc. Hiswork has included: 1) digital analysis and synthesis of musical instrument sound and acoustical environments; 2) percep tual factors involved in musical timbre; 3) crosscultural musical perception, especially comparing Western and Balinese musics. Currently he is focused on the practical application of technology to the performance of music and enhancing the listening experience. BartHopkin is a designer and builder of acoustic musical instruments and a student of musical instruments worldwide . Since 1985 he has been publisher and editor of the journal Expmhental Musical Instruments. Roger F. Malina is a National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) astronomer and is the Executive Editor of Leonardo and the Leonardo MusicJournal. His particular interests includethe culturaldimensions of spaceexploration, the impact of telecommunications systems in the arts, and the synthesis of the visual and sound arts. Ian Maxwell is Deputy Chairman of the Mirror Group Newspapers. He is also a Director of Maxwell Communications Corporation and Nimbus Records; Nimbus is a worldrenowned classicalmusiclabel and the leadingindependent European disc-pressing operation. Elliot Mazer is a record producer of 30 years’ standing, producing sound tracks and various kinds of pop music, including work by Neil Young,Janis Joplin and Linda Ronstadt . He has extensive experience with digital audio and computer applications and is currently Vice-president of RCS in New York. Larry Polansky is an active composer, performer, writer and music systems designer who is currently an assistant professor of music at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A., and Co-Director of the Bregman Electroacoustic Music Studio there. From 1980 until 1990 he taught at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College , Oakland,California,U.S.A.,where he alsoco-authored the computer-music language, HMSL. He is founder and editor of Frog Peak Music and associate editor of Perspectives o f New Music. David Rosenboom is Dean of the School of Music at the California Institute of theArtsinValencia, California, USA. Known for his innovations in American contemporary music, he has written for all forms of instrumental and electronic media, is an active performer, has been a pioneer in real-time, interactive performance with computer-music systems and has conducted research into informationprocessing modalities of the nervous system in relation to aesthetic experience. I Wayan Sadra...

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