Jeremy Castro Baguyos (born 1968 in Quezon City,

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) is a musician-researcher specializing in the realization of live interactive

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. Based at the

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(USA), he is a Professor of Music. His most notable contributions to the field are in the area of live performance combined with interactive computer technology. For the state of

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(USA), Baguyos established the state's first interactive computer music ensemble, Ensemble A.M.I. (Artificial Music Initiative), in conjunction with its first and only electronic music festival featuring interactive

, Virtual Music Week. For his own instrument, the double bass, he was one of the early practitioners of interactive computer music performance on the double bass. Inspired by the early electronic pioneers such as Robert Black and

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and building on foundational studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Baguyos studied computer music at the

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. It was at Peabody where he performed with the Peabody Computer Music Consort and collaborated with other students of computer music and established composers of computer music who shared his enthusiasm for the emerging art form. The result was the creation and performance, between 2002 and 2005, of some of the first significant repertoire for double bass and interactive electronics and probably the very first double bass repertoire to utilize the MSP extensions to the

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digital audio programming language. It is for this reason, his work differed from the few earlier experiments in interactive computer music for double bass. His realizations in public presentation were implemented in software as opposed to reliance on the much more limited hardware-based synthesis. He performed repertoire that utilized real-time audio capture and DSP, the use of automation in live performance, and simulations of musical machine intelligence. His experimental work in this area has been recorded on the "Music From SEAMUS" annual CD series of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States as well as his own solo CD released in 2005,
Uncoiled Oscillations
" (OCD). He appears frequently at notable academic conferences such as th
International Computer Music Conference
th

and the Seoul International Computer Music Festival. He is also the Principal Double Bassist of th
Des Moines Metro Opera
Summer Festival Orchestra, and has performed with the National Symphony (Washington, DC), the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra (Washington, DC), and the DC-based early music group the Washington Bach Consort.

References

University of Nebraska at Omaha Faculty Bio

Music Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
* Electronic Music Midwest * Peabody Computer Music Alumni page
myauditions.com- string committee member

Jeremy Baguyos myspace page (double bass + electronics)

Jeremy Baguyos myspace page (computer music composition)
* ICMC 2006 Reviews, ARRAY. (San Francisco: International Computer Music Association, 2008) pp. 36–37. * O'Reilly, Kyle. "Traditional Music, Technology Meld at Concert." ''Omaha World-Herald'' (March 9, 2009), p. 2B. * Baguyos, Jeremy. "Interactive Computer Music For Double Bass." ''Bass World'', Vol. 28: No. 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 13–17.

External links

Jeremy Baguyos review
in the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press, ), Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2009), pp. 101–103
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2005
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baguyos, Jeremy Castro Living people Filipino academics 1968 births University of Nebraska Omaha faculty Peabody Institute alumni People from Quezon City Classical double-bassists 21st-century double-bassists