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Godfried-Willem Raes

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Biography

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[English] [Dutch] [German] French

Publications and essays

Available on our website in english: Beschikbaar op onze webstek in het nederlands:

List of publications (multilingual listing)

  

Compositions

Scores and Electroacoustic Compositions, including music theatre, events and happenings...

  • Catalogue of Works. (many scores can be downloaded)
  • Pieces written in 2008:
    • 'Calls for Korn' for <Korn> solo
    • "Scientia vincere tenebras", for <Hurdy> solo
    • 'Sires Hands', for <Sire> and Handy One interface
    • 'Handy Mon', for robotorchestra and Handy One interface.
    • 'Cuties for Qt', for <Qt>, commisioned by Muzikon and the Ghent Conservatory of Music and Drama (parts: Qtree, Akafest and Wouwel)
    • 'O.G.', for glitching robot orchestra
    • 'Schroeders dream' , for actor and robotic toy piano (Toypi)
    • 'Simbas Drive' for <Simba>
    • "Qua Simba", quadrada study #17 for Simba and two nude dancers
    • <Mouse Balls and Bearings>, for inside piano
    • <Birada> for two nude butoh dancers and the Quadrada interface.
    • In the works: <TechnoFaustus> , a technological chamber opera for musical automats, robots, voices, acting, dancing and instruments: Acts already finished:<Lithos>, <Eary Lis Trimbl>, <Flexes>, <Wandern>, <Tekne>, <Paradiso>, <Descent>, <Aux Arbres>, <Trance>, <Gnos>, <De weg, der Weg, the way>.

     

16mm Movies and Movie-soundtracks

  • Pietje Rood 1,2,3 and 4 (cartoons) (With Gerda Verheecke) (Cartoons)
  • Die Geisterbahn (With Raimund Krumme) (Cartoon)
  • Sonomobilofonie (With Lieve De Pelsmaecker (+))
  • These movies (16mm) are available in the Logos Archives and can be shown to groups on request

Instrument Building: Instruments, Robots and Automats...

  • Link to special catalogue of instruments, both acoustic and electronic, by Godfried-Willem Raes
  • Link to the catalogue of automated and robotic instruments build by Godfried-Willem Raes, that make up the extensive Logos M&M robot ensemble
  • Link to the composers manual to the robots that make up the M&M orchestra
     

Performances

Discography

Software (Most of which is open source and can be downloaded.)

  • All software mentioned here written before 1997 is in Microsoft Basic QBX - PDS V7.1 for IBM-type PC's. (Nothing for Mac here...). All more recent programs are either translated or originally written in Power Basic (mostly PBWIN 8.04) and/or in C++. All this code compiles to real 32/64-bit code and runs under Win98, Win2000, Win XP or Vista. None of this software is 'user friendly': not too much graphics, almost no idiotographs… Items that are not as yet downloadable can be obtained by e-mail after a simple e-mail request to the author. Make sure your e-mail software allows for binary attachments! All compiled executables and DLL's can be found in a separate directory on this website. Source code in zipped format is available on the site as well.

To select & download demos and executables, click here.

Algorithmic Composition Software

Utilities, various libraries

  • DARMS-code translator (Written in collaboration with Geert Logghe)
  • Midi-file convertors (Written in collaboration with Joachim Brackx & Johan Vercruysse)
  • Converting *.SEQ files to standard midi: H2M.EXE
  • Converting *.BIN files to standard midi: B2M.EXE
  • Viruses: the medecine is worse than the disease… (article and software)
  • Calculation of Helmholtz resonators: helmholz.exe (Written in PowerBasic CC V2.0 for Win32)
  • Global directory-wide find and replace utility: globrepl.exe (Written in PowerBasic CC V5.0 for Win32)
  • Webmaster Robot to make automatic hyperlink indexes of your entire website! hyperidx.exe (07.2002, rev.09.2008)
  • Calculation of strings for traditional as well as experimental instruments.(07.2004)

Electronic Hardware utilities

  • Preamps: operational amplifier circuit design program with filters (audio)
  • Filters: design aid for passive 2 to 8-pole LC Butterworth filter calculation (QBX code)
  • Fast Fourier Transforms, spectrum analyser (Written in Power Basic 32. Download and see...). Newest versions are integrated in our real time <GMT> project. (2001 and later)

HarmLib: a library for generalized musical harmony

  • Instructions and links for downloading and use can be found in: Users Guide in HTML NEW version 9.15: extended with real time audio functions as well as support for up to 16 midi-in and midi-out ports !!! Also the manual has been greatly improved by splitting it into a set of different linked and fully indexed hypertext html files. The new version works only compiled under PowerBasic Windows Compiler 9.00. Previous platforms (Microsoft Basic) are no longer supported. The library is now available as a a set of DLL files- and is now fully merged with and integrated into our <GMT> multitasking composition software. There also is a webpage with FAQ's about <GMT>.

    We are still looking for people willing to help us in further developing granular code sections, debugging, porting more code to DLL format, more elaborate support for real-time sound synthesis, graphics, device drivers, audio streaming, etc... Sofar we welcome and welcomed contributions from Kristof Lauwers and Johannes Taelman.

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    GMT: a general purpose multitasking framework for use under PowerBasic Windows Compiler V9.00 and the Win32Api

    • <GMT>: multitasking programming language for real time algorithmic music composition in Basic [PowerBasic 32 bit Windows compiler required]. This software package for programming composers has full support for musical syntax: extended counterpoint and harmony, real temporal autonomy of musical voices and processes, real time input and output devices... It is a 32-bit PC programming environment with full access to all Win32Api functions (including real time audio!) from within racing fast Basic. Better and way faster than ircam/opcode's lazy MAX. Last update: Version 9.90. [08.09.2008]. (New DLL, New zips, newly updated manual with real time audio functions, ftp support, USB I/O devices support...) .
  • Users Manual for <GMT> Instructions for downloading are contained in this document. The files are in a single subdirectory with URL: http://www.logosfoundation.org/gmt/ on the webserver. The version available now is for use under the recent 32bit Power Basic Compiler for Windows. The software fully supports the Win32Api, including callback functions and codepointers, DLL calls etc.... Feel free to download the zip-files. We advise you to install them under C:\b\pb\gmt\ on your PC. This makes sure you do not skip any essential files and that all libraries are in the directories where the program expects them to be....
  • To file download directory...
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    Hardware

     

    Architecture

    Education - Onderwijs

    • Association Ghent University , department of music & drama
    • Orpheus Institute for postgraduate education in music

    Syllabus

    Experimental Music / Experimentele Muziek (Composition class)

    Improvisation Class (1982 up to 2007)

    Acoustics Class

    Research Methodology Class

    Sound Laboratory

    Ad Valvas voor de studenten

    Academic Collaborations:

    • Ghent State University:
      • Vakgroep toegepaste wiskunde en informatika, Prof.Dr.Freddy Brackx
      • Onderzoeksgroep muziekwetenschappen UG (Prof.dr.Marc Leman)
    • Hogeschool Gent:
      • Department BME: Elektronika
      • Department Akademie: Multimedia
      • Department of music & drama
    • Orpheus Higher Institute for Music
    • Museum of Musical Instruments (MIM) , Brussels
    • Technical University Eindhoven
    • Brabants Conservatorium, Tilburg (Fontys)

    Artistic Collaborations:

    Dick Raaijmakers, Phill Niblock, Ernesto De Sousa (+), Gavin Bryars, Maury Coles, Mauricio Kagel, Barbara Van Loon, Luk Vaes, Horatio Radulescu, Lieve De Pelsmaecker(+), Herman Schepens, Jan Emiel Daele (+), Raimund Krumme, Gerda Verheecke, Moniek Darge, Paul Lytton, Peter Pieters (+), Gust Gils (+), Luk Houtkamp, Freek Neyrinck, Michel Waisvisz (+), Jan Kruger (+), Sakis Papadimitriou, George Peixinho(+), Floros Floridis, Richard Teitelbaum, Hugh Davies(+), Roy Ashbury, Paul Burwell (+), Tony Wren, Josef Anton Riedl, Francois Dufresne (+), Michael Jullich, Trimpin, Jacques Remus, Paul Woodrow, Stephen Cripps (+), Johan Huys, Roland Corijn, Richard Lerman, Walter Lievens, Luk Brewaeys, Hans Karsten Raecke, Jackson Mac Low (+), Jerry Hunt (+), Genesis P.Orridge, John Zorn, Tom Cora (+), Henri Chopin (+), Takehisa Kosugi, Tadashi Endo, Charlie Morrow, Koen Kessels, Ictus, Douglas Quin, Champ d'Action, Seth Josel, Tom Pauwels, Dominika Eyckmans, Karin De Fleyt, Yu & Kumi Wakao, Christof Schlaeger, Lies Gellynck, Emilie De Vlam, Tonya Lockyer, Leonaar Degraeve, Petra Dubach, Mario Van Horrik, Leon Van Noorden, Mark Dijkstra, Llorenc Barber, Anne Faulborn, Nicoletta Branchini, Klarenz Barlow, Mark Applebaum, Jasna Velickovic, Moritz Eggert, Marian De Schryver, Jelle Meander, Maja Jantar, Wu Wei, Michael Manion, Bruno Spoerri, Bart Maris, Rainer Boesch, Ghislain Potvlieghe, Marcel Ketels, Dirk Moelants, Dick Van Der Harst, Koen d'Hous …

    Particularly active Students and former students:

    Composition students:

  • Former students:
  • Geert Logghe
  • Jan Emmery (+)
  • Hans Roels (masters degree, 1998)
  • Francesca Verbauwhede (masters degree, 1996)
  • Johan Vercruysse (masters degree, 1995)
  • Joachim Brackx (masters degree, 1999)
  • Zachar Laskevicz
  • Annelies Van Parijs (masters degree, 1999)
  • Bruno Forment
  • Kris De Baerdemacker (masters degree, 2000)
  • Luk Vaes
  • Marc Maes
  • Brent Wetters (masters degree,2001)
  • Jonathon Kirk (composer in residence at Logos, 2000-2001)
  • Matthias Troffaes
  • Diana Ferreira
  • Thomas Smetryns (masters degree, 2003)
  • Sebastian Bradt (masters degree, 2003)
  • Barbara Buchowiec (masters degree, 2004)
  • Kristof Lauwers(masters degree, 2004)
  • Yvan Vander Sanden (masters degree, 2007)
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  • Students (2007-2008):
  • Lukas Huisman
  • Jasper Braet
  • Edmund Lauret
  • Algernon Van Peel
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    • Improvisation Students

  • Stefaan Smagghe, Werner Schurmans, Ingeborg Cneut, Karin De Fleyt,
  • Marc Maes, Johan Vercruysse, Iris Algoet, Petra Dejonge, Bruno De Busschere, Olga Zolotareva, Nancy Lareu, Helena De Beul, Gwen Vandelangerijt, Debby Desmet, Leonaar Degraeve, Kristof Lauwers, Joachim Brackx, Kris De Baerdemacker, Laura Maes, Petra Van Tendeloo, Dorien Godfroid, Elke Soenen, Jonas Pannecoucke, Heleen Van Haegenborg, Celine Rulens, Inge Stassen, Benjamin Dousselaere, Luydmyla Garaschuk, Barbara Buchowiec, Daan Janssens, Johannes Westendorp, Yvan Vander Sanden, Pieter Matthynsens, Gwendolyn Desmet, Thomas Smetryns, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe...
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    Avant-Garde Chamber Music students:

  • Bert Jacobs, Rudy Lareu, Iris Algoet, Tomma Wessel, Karin Gutschke, Geert Logghe, Luk Vaes
  • Karin De Fleyt, Marc Maes, Joachim Brackx, Barbara Verfaillie, Wim Belaen, Inge Kerkhove, Marc Defraeye, Barbara Belza, Leonaar De Graeve, Helena De Beul, Sophie Trepannier, Hans Roels, Kobe Baeyens, Bruno De Busschere, Joachim Brackx, Lies Gellynck, Vanessa Defauw, Laura Maes, Chen Wan Yu, Jonas Pannecoucke, Heleen Van Haegenborg.

    • Doctoral Students:

  • Hans Roels (Augent)
  • Florian Heyerick (Augent)
  • Laura Maes (Augent)
  • Arne Deforce (Orpheus Institute)
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    Bibliography:

    Writings by other people on and about Godfried-Willem Raes:

    Mark Ansseeuw, Yves Knockaert, Prof.Dr.Herman Sabbe, Larry Wendt, Frank Pauwels, Warren Burt, Joel Chadabe, Prof.Dr.Jean-Paul van Bendegem, Karel Goeyvaerts (+), Bart Hopkins, Roger Sutherland, Pierre Darge, Paul Dutton, Hugh Davies(+), Douglas Quin, Gordon Monahan, Prof.Dr.Albert Mayr, Luc Janssens, Prof.Dr.Mark Delaere, Maarten Beirens, Dennis Bartory-Kitz, Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen, Peter Paul De Temmerman, Christof Rutten, Jaan Claeys, Marleen Wijnants , Kris De Decker, Mattias Parent, Karel Van Keymeulen,Michael Arntz...

    Daily life properties

    • Vegetarian for over 40 years

      Patrofagie is de heimelijke rite van de karnivoor

    • Quasi permanent pipe smoker (real cuban cigars, on festive occasions…)
    • Anarchist, anti-royalist, anti-nationalist
    • Atheist & Agnosticist
      If there were a God, we would have to murder him
      &
      God is a meaningless question
    • Philosophical orientation: positivistic-pragmatism (cybernetic and hedonistic)

      The truth is in the machine, as long as it works…

    • Heterosexual

      Das ewig Weibliche zieht uns hinan...

    • Length: 1m76 Weight: 56kg [BMI 18.0]
    • No driving license, no car, no TV, no kids, no dog, no cat, no sports, no cellular phone, no Ipod, no Mac…
    • Never ever drank Coke nor ever entered a Mac Donalds.
    • Virtuoso bicycle rider
    • Tango dancer , milonguero
    • Speaks fluently Dutch, German, English, French and Jabbertalk.
    • Reads Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Basic, Darms, C, Fortran, Hex, Music, Assembler, HTML…
    • Favorite writers: Michel Houellebecq, Willem Frederik Hermans, Michel Onfray, Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Joyce, Antonin Artaud, Willem Elschot
    • Favorite scientists: Niels Bohr, James Watson & Francis Crick, Kurt Goedel
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