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browsing this excellent web site I found a page about Jeff Pressing
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s858418.htm
I met him in 1987 while a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. At that time he was one of the instructors of the Music Synthesis Department. I took a class with him. A great guy.
I knew him because he had written articles about piano technique for Keyboard Magazine.
I also have a great book written by him:
Synthesizer Performance and Real-Time Techniques. Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions; & London: Oxford University Press. 462pp. 1992
Anybody interested in electronic music should try to find it. http://www.areditions.com/cmdas/cmdas008.html
These guys down under are really cool 
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More links about Jeff Pressing:
http://www.move.com.au/artist.cfm/697
http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/staff/pressing.html
(from here it's possible to download some interesting articles written by Jeff Pressing as .pdf files)
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Hmm.. he died last year. |
Musician, academic, psychologist and Age music critic Dr Jeff Pressing died suddenly of a suspected heart attack. Pressing was 55, though he cut a far more youthful figure in appearance and manner.
His interests spanned educational issues and royal tennis, with music - performing, composing, analysing and inventing new forms for it - occupying a large part of his life.
Born in San Diego in 1946, Pressing studied music at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained his doctorate in music at the University of California, San Diego, and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester, New York. In 1975, Pressing moved to Melbourne to take up a lecturing post in the music department of La Trobe University and later became its head of music. He moved to the University of Melbourne in 1998 where he was a senior lecturer in psychology.
In the last two years he led its Telegenesis Research Group - a collaboration between the university and the US-based Predictive Technologies Inc.
Pressing's interest in music was in contemporary composition and jazz, electronic and improvised forms. In the early 1990s, he formed the World Rhythm Band in which he played keyboards and synthesiser.
In 1992, Pressing was commissioned by the ABC to compose Zalankara, a multicultural symphony about the plight of refugees. He reviewed new music for The Age from July, 1999, until his death.
Pressing is survived by his wife, Dr Jill Wigglesworth, and his children Adam, 15, and Rebecca, 11.
ya..I heard Zalankara. It's cool, he was a bright guy, for sure!
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this kind of stuff makes me wish to live in a country like that but I'm stuck here among pizzas and mandolins 
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just kidding
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| etc etc etc and ...mandolins and ferraris? Hmm.. |
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