“IPEM’S HISTORY: IPEM was founded in 1963, as a joint venture between the Belgian Radio and Television broadcasting company (BRT) and Ghent University. The idea was to combine audio engineering with music production, thus building a bridge between scientific research and artistic research. The institute was first located in the electronics laboratory of Prof. H. dr. ir. Vuylsteke, but soon after it was associated with the department of musicology, which was lead by Prof. dr. J.L. Broeckx and later on by Prof. dr. H. Sabbe. Together with ir. W. Landrieu, they developed the institute into a music studio and a center for the study of contemporary music. Music production at IPEM was lead by the composers L. De Meester, K. Goeyvaerts and L. Goethals, all employed by the BRT. They realized many compositions and radio transmissions related to contemporary music. Since 1968, research results at IPEM were published in yearbooks. In collaboration with Sonology (then at Utrecht), this resulted in 1972 in an international journal, called Interface.”
From: Journal of New Music Research
Composer Micheline Lesaffre at Brussels’s Musical Instrument Museum (MIM
David Van de Woestijne operating an echo and reverb machine (circa 1963).
Sound technician Ivan Schepers at work in IPEM’s Muinkaai studio (early 1980s).
Composer Louis De Meester at work in IPEM’s Technicum studio (circa 1963)
Landrieu’s mixer with filters.
Generator bank with sine wave oscillator group, developed by Walter Landrieu
Landrieu’s electronic organ (based on a design by Hubert Vuylsteke).
A generator group developed by Walter Landrieu.
Landrieu’s electronic organ (based on a design by Hubert Vuylsteke).
The mechanics lab at IPEM’s Muinkkaai space (1965–1970).
The insides of a Melowriter.
The Melowriter – a kind of music typewriter – designed at IPEM in 1976 by Hans Janssen. The Melowriter allowed users to notate compositions into an 8 bit code.
Composer Robin Heifetz on the piano at IPEM’s Muinkkaai studio. This photo was taken by Michiel Hendryckx to illustrate Heifetz’s piano and tape composition That Which Is The Beginning
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IPEM – Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music : ’50 years of electronic and electroacoustic music at the Ghent University’
In commemoration of IPEM’s 50th anniversary, Metaphon presents next to the CD edition (2 CD’s with lavishy illustrated 88 page book) a deluxe vinyl edition containing 3 LP’s with the book and the 2 CD’s (same material as the LP’s) all housed in a hardboard linen LP box. From the huge archive of IPEM recordings a selection was made featuring works by Lucien Goethals, Didier Gazelle, Louis De Meester, David Van de Woestijne, Stefan Beyst, Helmut Lachenmann, Boudewijn Buckinx, Karel Goeyvaerts, Emmanuel Van Weerst, Peter Beyls, Raoul De Smet, Frank Nuyts, Ricardo Mandolini, Peter Schuback, Stephen Montague and Yves Knockaert. All tracks were recorded at the IPEM studio and mastered from the original tapes. Most tracks are previously unreleased.
Book & CD Available Here : IPEM
Internet :
http://www.thewire.co.uk/galleries/photo-gallery_institute-for-psychoacoustics-and-electronic-music
http://www.mim.be/the-ipem-studio-equipment?from_i_m=1
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