About Tavel Arts Center
The mission of The Donald Tavel Arts and Technology Center is to explore frontiers of music-related, multimedia and cross-disciplinary networked projects. Within these parameters, the work of the center extends into fine arts, education, health sciences, business, and computer science. As Tavel Center associates collaborate with researchers in these areas, new modes of creative thought innovation and expression emerge.
The locus of work at the Tavel Center is network communications on Internet2, the next generation web currently in use by universities and institutes worldwide. Due to Internet2’s ultra-high speed bandwidth, researchers are empowered to create scenarios of unprecedented complexity and convergence.
The center is the research wing of the School of Music at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). The School of Music is housed in IUPUI’s Informatics Technology Building, which is also the national center for the Abilene Backbone, the primary conduit for high speed connectivity in North America. Associates at the Center serve on the faculty of the School of Music.
The School of Music currently offers a Master of Science degree in Music Technology and Music Therapy. Two other programs; a Bachelor of Science in Music Technology and a Ph.D in Music Technology are in the proposal stage. Graduate students in these disciplines benefit by working directly with research faculty on new technologies through the work of the Tavel Center.
Donald Tavel
Donald Louis Tavel became the first person to receive a Master of Music degree from the Indiana University Center for Computer and Electronic Music. He was a pioneer in developing new uses for computers. Mr. Tavel established a computer graphics and animation department at Indiana University while teaching courses in computer music at IUPUI. Mr. Tavel was the first IUPUI music faculty member to be involved with music technology and teaching students about the power of MIDI, a means of linking electronic instruments and computers. He was also an artist who understood the impact of technology upon the creative endeavor.
Mr. Tavel held seven patents on computer hardware as well as numerous copyrights on computer software, and in 1974 developed an early version of a resynator – an electronic synthesizer designed to allow a musician to play any instrument and make it sound like a different one.
The Tavel Center will provide a lasting contribution to the study and development of artistic endeavors in our changing world and it will be the centerpiece for furthering the innovative work Donald Louis Tavel loved and pursued during his lifetime.
The Telematic Collective
The Telematic Collective is a group of artists and empiricists working collaboratively to create networked, synchronistic live performance art. Members of the collective primarily reside in research universities and centers that have access to ultra-high speed bandwidth. In North America, the primary conduit for this is the Internet2 Community. The Telematic Collective presents concerts, plays and commentaries, as well as less clearly-defined media experiences before live audiences worldwide.
Telematic Art
Technological innovations over the past decade have enabled the Internet to be used as a compelling medium for exploratory telematic performances. Telematic art employs multimedia and telecommunications with live artists in the creation of live performances. Existing in this medium is a particular aesthetic dynamic that relates directly to the quickly evolving networked culture of our age. This has much to do with the homogenization of artistic expression, conducted personally yet amplified collectively. As Roy Ascott (1989) wrote: “Telematic culture means, in short, that we do not think, see, or feel in isolation. Creativity is shared, authorship is distributed...enabling one to participate in the production of global vision through networked interaction with other minds...”
Business & Tech Forum
The Donald Tavel Arts and Technology Center explores frontiers of music-related, multimedia and cross-disciplinary networked projects. Within these parameters, the work of the center extends into fine arts, education, health sciences, business, and computer science. As Tavel Center associates collaborate with researchers in these areas, new modes of creative thought, healing and expression emerge.
Contact
Scott Deal, DMA
Center Director, Professor and Associate Director of Music Research Programs, IUPUI
Artistic Director, Telematic Collective
deal@iupui.edu
(317) 278-4136
Global Music Scholars
The Global Music Scholars Program was established in 2007 in response to enhancing the understanding of international communities and musicians’ common interests worldwide. This forum was established to encourage music scholar to engage in an open exchange of ideas and practices found in different cultures.
Music students and faculty at IUPUI are interested in increasing multicultural awareness in music education, music performance, music composition and music technology practices worldwide.
Key ingredients to the Global Music Scholar program include:
- Visiting music scholar exchange programs
- Invited residencies for international scholars
- Internet-based international conferences for shared and collaborative research
- Internet-2 telematic performance projects within the international community
Scholars interested in applying for this forum are welcome.
How To Apply
Contact the Indiana University School of Music – IUPUI for further information:
Dr. Scott Deal.
