Personae / Acknowledgments

248 Perspectives ofNew Music PERSONAE ADACHI TOMOMI is a performer/composer, sound poet and video artist. He studied philosophy and aesthetics atWaseda University, Tokyo. He has performed improvised music (solo and with nume rous musicians) and contemporary music (works by JohnCage, Dieter Schnebel, etc.) with voice, computer and self-made instru ments in Japan, the United States, and Europe. He preformed the Japanese premiere of Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate. He has also composed works for his punkish choir group, Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus, and has collaborated with many dancers and dance com panies. His video work has been screened ina number of European film and video festivals. His CDs include the solo album sparkling mater/a/ism (naya records), and, with the Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus, nu (naya records) and yo (Tzadik). MIRIO COSOTTINI graduated from the Academy of Music of Florence (1992), received a degree inPhilosophy from the Univer sity of Florence (1999), studied composition, musical analysis and improvisation, and has made musical contributions to the fields of dance, theatre and cinema. In2005 he co-founded the GRIM (Musical Improvisation Research Group ) with Alessio Pisani. Since 2005 he has taught improvisation at the Conservatory of Padova, Italy. JACK DOUTHETT holds two masters degrees inmusic, one in performance and the other intheory and composition, and received a doctorate inmathematics from the University of New Mexico. He has published inthe disciplines of mathematics, physics, acoustics, and music theory, and his major area of interest ismathematical music theory. Though officially retired, Douthett remains active in research and continues to teach both mathematics and music theory part-time. JULIAN HOOK holds graduate degrees inmathematics, archi tecture, piano performance, and music theory, and isAssistant Professor of Music Theory at Indiana University. His research involves transformational music theory and other mathematical approaches to the study of musical structure. His recent publications have appeared inthe journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of Mathematics and Music, and the Personae 249 book Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations, published by the University of Rochester Press. GORDON DOWNIE studied music at the Universities of York and Durham and completed his PhD in computer science at Cardiff University in 1994. He is currently a senior lecturer inthe Depart ment of Computer Science, University of theWest of England, Bristol, where he pursues research into the algorithmic formali zation of music composition. His music has been featured in festivals in continental Europe including Nuovi Spazi Musicali, Nuova Consonanza, Musica Scienza, the Transit Festival, and the Saarbrucken Festival, and broadcast on German and Italian radio. In addition, his work has been featured on BBC Radio Three including several profiles on Hear and Now, and most recently his BBC orchestral commission, forms 6: event aggregates, was given its premiere broadcast by the BBC National Orchestra ofWales. He is artistic director of the Contemporary Music Ensemble ofWales. Contact: www.gordondownie.net. SCOTT GLEASON is pursuing his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He edits for Current Musicology, The Open Space Magazine, and Perspectives of New Music. PETER IVAN EDWARDS isAssistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. He studied composition at Northwestern University; the University of California, San Diego; and the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. BARBARA ROSE LANGE isassociate professor of ethnomusicology at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. Since the early 1990s she has studied popular music of Hungarians, Roma (Gypsies), and Texans. She has held Fulbright, IREX, and Mellon fellowships. She is the author of Holy Brotherhood: Roman/' Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church (Oxford, 2003). Her current project concerns recent experiments inEast-Central European folk music, and the claims that generations, gender, and politics make upon this music. STEPHEN MILES isAssociate Professor of Music at New College of Florida and Director of New Music New College. Recent projects include Social Studies, games for performers and audience (see "Composing Reflexivity: The Social Studies Project," forthcoming in Audiences and the Arts: Communication Perspectives, edited by Lois Foreman-Wernet and Brenda Dervin, Hampton Press); Hocket 250 Perspectives ofNew Music Science, for two vocal ensembles, composed collaboratively with six New College students; and a solo performance piece, The Anatomy of...