Bill Alves — Composer

Writing

Cover of Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, my book coauthored with Brett Campbell, is available from Indiana University Press.

 

We also have related articles at our Lou Harrison blog.
Cover of Music of the Peoples of the World I am also the author of Music of the Peoples of the World, a survey of musical cultures from around the world. The third edition of this book is now available from Cengage/Schirmer.

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Many of my articles are available for free online. Here is a bibliography with links where available:

  • Insert notes for Six Pieces for Gamelan Slendro. Mode Records 330, 2021.
  • "Consonance and Dissonance in Visual Music." Organised Sound 17/2 (Fall 2012): 114-119.
  • "Correspondences and Complementarity in Visual Music." Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Symposium of Arts and Technology, 2010.
  • Liner notes for Lou Harrison: Por Gitaro. New York: Mode Records 195, 2008. Also, separate website, "The Tuning of Por Gitaro: Suites for Tuned Guitars."
  • "Digital Harmony of Sound and Light," Computer Music Journal 29/4 (Winter 2005): 49-58.
  • Review of Lou Harrison Keyboard Works, American Music 23/4 (Winter 2005): 536-539.
  • "The Electronic Works of Frederick Lesemann," SEAMUS Journal 17/1-2 (Spring 2005): 34-38.
  • "Pocket gamelan: developing the instrumentarium for an extended harmonic universe," with Greg Schiemer (principal author), Stephen James Taylor, and Mark Havryliv. Presented at International Computer Music Conference, Singapore 2003.
  • "The Journey of Light and Darkness in Toby Twining's Chrysalid Requiem," 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network 11/3 (Autumn 2003): 1-9.
  • "Kembangan in the Music of Lou Harrison," Perspectives of New Music 9/2 (Summer 2001) 29-56.
  • Review of Uncommon Practices by David Doty. 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network 10 No. 5 (Fall 2000) 16-17.
  • Hiway 70, computer music composition score, in The Csound Book CD-ROM edited by Richard Boulanger. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2000.
  • "Csound-based Microtonal Synthesis and Control with MIDI," Chapter in The Csound Book CD-ROM edited by Richard Boulanger. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2000.
  • "Postmodern Music," Seni [Indonesian Arts Journal] (December 1996), 25-37.
  • "Pleng: Composing for a Justly Tuned Gendér Barung," Presented at the Fourth International Symposium and Festival of Intercultural Music, London, April 1996. Published in Intercultural Music 4 (2001) 33-56, rpt. in 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network (Spring 1997) 1, 4-11.
  • Review of Imbas Forasnai: Chanting the Light of Foresight by Terry Riley, 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network, 9, No. 2 (October 1995) 14-15.
  • Audio demonstration of Balinese music, for Balancing Acts, a traveling museum exhibit produced by the California Museum of Science and Industry.
  • "Multicultural Elements in Music Composition," Seni [Indonesian Arts Journal] (Spring 1994).
  • Review of Coda Finale 3.0 Music Notation Software, Music Library Association Notes (March 1994), 1052-1054.
  • "Can We Live With Market-Driven Arts Alone?," Chorus! (July 1991) 16.
  • "Key Characteristics and Pitch Sets in Composing with Just Intonation," 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network, 6, No. 3 (Summer 1990), 1, 6-8, 14.
  • Review of Computer Applications in Music: A Bibliography by Deta M. Davis, SEAMUS Journal, 4, No. 1 (April 1989), 10-11.
  • "The Just Tuning System of Nicola Vicentino," 1/1: Journal of the Just Intonation Network, 5, No. 2 (Spring 1989), 8-13.
  • With Brett Campbell: "The Emancipation of the Consonance: Post-Modern Music," Duende (November 1988), 19-21, 28-29.