Post by deanna on Oct 28, 2011 8:27:45 GMT -7
The Department of Music and The ARTS Lab would like to invite you to a free-public
presentation by noted artist/composer Peter Beyls on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 6:30 pm: located
at University (Pine st.) and Central.
Peter Beyls
www.beyls.org/
Peter Beyls is a Belgian born artist/composer. Beyls initially studied electronic engineering and music at
the Royal Music Conservatory in Brussels, and since the early seventies has had numerous teaching,
research, collaborative and other creative involvements throughout Europe.
In 1977 Beyls became a visiting scholar at the Electronics Experimental Department of the Slade School
of Fine Art, University College London, and worked at the Structured Sound Synthesis Project headed by
Bill Buxton at the University of Toronto, at the School of Music at CalArts, and at Osaka Arts University,
Japan. He has designed, built and composed for numerous analogue and then digital audio/music
synthesis and processing systems over almost 40 years.
Beyls served on the board of directors of ISEA for many years. He currently teaches aesthetics of new
media at the St Lukas Hogeschool, Brussels; and coordinates research at the Interaction Lab of KASK,
and teaches theory of new media Faculty of Fine Arts, University College Ghent. Beyls also pursues
research in real-time evolutionary computing at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music
Research (ICCMR) at the University of Plymouth, UK.
presentation by noted artist/composer Peter Beyls on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 6:30 pm: located
at University (Pine st.) and Central.
Peter Beyls
www.beyls.org/
Peter Beyls is a Belgian born artist/composer. Beyls initially studied electronic engineering and music at
the Royal Music Conservatory in Brussels, and since the early seventies has had numerous teaching,
research, collaborative and other creative involvements throughout Europe.
In 1977 Beyls became a visiting scholar at the Electronics Experimental Department of the Slade School
of Fine Art, University College London, and worked at the Structured Sound Synthesis Project headed by
Bill Buxton at the University of Toronto, at the School of Music at CalArts, and at Osaka Arts University,
Japan. He has designed, built and composed for numerous analogue and then digital audio/music
synthesis and processing systems over almost 40 years.
Beyls served on the board of directors of ISEA for many years. He currently teaches aesthetics of new
media at the St Lukas Hogeschool, Brussels; and coordinates research at the Interaction Lab of KASK,
and teaches theory of new media Faculty of Fine Arts, University College Ghent. Beyls also pursues
research in real-time evolutionary computing at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music
Research (ICCMR) at the University of Plymouth, UK.