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Christopher Dobrian Christopher Dobrian is an author, teacher, researcher and composer of instrumental and electronic music. His substantial contributions to the field include his authorship of important teaching materials about interactive music software. Among Dobrian's recent computer compositions are 'Talk to Me' (1998), an interactive computer audio installation, 'There's Just One Thing You Need To Know' (1998) for computer piano and computer-mediated synthesizer, and 'Alter Egos' (1997) for computer-processed contrabass and computer-mediated synthesizer, which received its premiere performance by Bertram Turetzky and Daniel Koppelman. Recent instrumental works include 'Metallurgy' (1996) for amplified violoncello and six brass instruments and 'I, Alone' (1995) for violoncello solo, both written for and premiered by David Gibson in Troy, New York, and 'Poems of Passage' (1994) for orchestra. Christopher Dobrian is author of many articles about computer music, music theory, and interactive systems, including several user manuals for Max and MSP (1990 - 1998), and 'Algorithmic Generation of Temporal Form: Hierarchical Organization of Stasis and Transition' (1995), which was published in the proceedings of the 1995 International Computer Music Conference and the proceedings of the 1995 International Symposium of Electronic Art. Christopher Dobrian is currently on the faculty of the Music Department of the School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, where he directs the Gassmann Electronic Music Studio and the Gassmann Electronic Music Series.

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