{"id":1342,"date":"2015-11-01T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T17:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:22:07","slug":"new-american-music-month-exhibit-opens-in-the-university-librarys-marshall-gallery-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2015\/11\/01\/new-american-music-month-exhibit-opens-in-the-university-librarys-marshall-gallery-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New American Music Month Exhibit Opens in the University Library&#8217;s Marshall Gallery Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4302\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Computer-Music-from-the-University-of-Illinois-1024x1019-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4302\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Computer-Music-from-the-University-of-Illinois-1024x1019-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Computer-Music-from-the-University-of-Illinois-1024x1019-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Computer-Music-from-the-University-of-Illinois-1024x1019-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Computer-Music-from-the-University-of-Illinois-1024x1019-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LP Recording Cover Art for \u201cComputer Music from the University of Illinois,\u201d 1967.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new exhibit, &#8220;From the Illiac Suite to the Sal-Mar Construction:\u00a0Illinois\u2019 Pioneering Experimental Music Studio,&#8221; opens today in the University Library&#8217;s Marshall Gallery to kick off this November&#8217;s American Music Month celebration.\u00a0 In 1952 the University of Illinois\u2019 ILLIAC supercomputer was the most powerful piece of technology in the world, capable of executing countless calculations in the blink of an eye and leaping over humanity\u2019s boundless memory. \u00a0But could it create music? \u00a0This question was posed by several of the university\u2019s experimental music composers. \u00a0In 1956, Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson devised a program for this machine to become more than a mere business tool. They\u00a0constructed an\u00a0artificial\u00a0collaborator capable of composing music. \u00a0Later in 1962, Salvatore Martirano continued these experiments by using the original TTL boards of the ILLIAC II to build his Sal-Mar Construction, an analog and digital collaborator capable of continuously improvising music. \u00a0Through photographs, original music, diagrams, graphic art and reports, this exhibition traces the development of early computer music and the University of Illinois&#8217; Experimental Music Studio from 1952 to 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new exhibit, &#8220;From the Illiac Suite to the Sal-Mar Construction:\u00a0Illinois\u2019 Pioneering Experimental Music Studio,&#8221; opens today in the University Library&#8217;s Marshall Gallery to kick off this November&#8217;s American Music Month celebration.\u00a0 In 1952 the University of Illinois\u2019 ILLIAC supercomputer was the most powerful piece of technology in the world, capable of executing countless calculations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}