David Wessel, Berkley's director of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, has passed away. There will be an open house on Friday, October 17, from 1PM - 6PM for those that want to pay their respects. You can find details here. People are also leaving their condolences on his Facebook Page here.
For those not familiar with David Wessel, there is a great interview with him on the Cycling 74 website from 1999 here. From that interview:
"David Wessel is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley where he directs the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Wessel worked at IRCAM between 1979 and 1988; his activities there included starting the department where Miller Puckette first began working on Max on a Macintosh. Since Wessel’s arrival in Berkeley over ten years ago, CNMAT has been actively involved in teaching Max/MSP as well as developing freely available Max-based software projects. In this 1999 interview with Gregory Taylor, Wessel talks about his musical background, his relationship with French composer and IRCAM founder Pierre Boulez, the origins of Max, and some perspectives on his current work."
Pictured and in the video below is David with his relatively new SLABS instrument and controller. The instrument has been mentioned here on MATRIXSYNTH. In 2011 he showed the instrument with the Eigenharp and Roger Linn's Linnstrument prototype at an event in San Francisco.
Uploaded on Jan 15, 2009 DavidLWessel
"Musical Demonstration of SLABS instrument with David Wessel on SLABS and Nils Bultmann on viola"
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