Australasian Computer Music Association Annual General Meeting - Minutes
12 am -Sunday 7th July 2002
RMIT University – Melbourne
Attendance
Andrew Brown
Lissa Meridan
Anthony Hood
Mark William
Tim Opie
Anne Scott
Roger Alsop
Bruce Schneider
Ian Stevenson
George Mitri
Ina Kaminskyj
Sandra Uitdenbogerd
René Wooller
Andrew Sorensen
Lindsay Vickery
Hannah Clem
Warren Burt
Terry McDermott
Robert Griffin Morgan
Gordon Monro
Angelo Fraietta
Jonathan Mustard
Garry McKie
Alistare Riddell
Jennifer Hum
Jim Cotter
Stuart James
Andrew Lyons
David Collins
Robert Sazdov
Robert Coburn
Peter Mcilwain
1. Minutes of the last AGM 2001
Roger Alsop moved that the minutes be accepted – Lissa Meridan seconded
The motion was passed.
2. Business Arising
No issues where discussed.
3. Reports
Andrew Brown moved that the reports be accepted – Ian Kaminskyj seconded
The motion was passed.
Copies of the reports are included in the Appendix (see page 3).
4. Elections
5. Chroma
Paul Doornbusch moved that:
Each issue of Chroma be available to members through the ACMA website via a link. The link is to be protected with a password. The password for links to each issue is to remain active until the release of the next issue. The release of Chroma is to be accompanied by an email to the ACMA email list giving notification of the new issue and supplying the relevant URL.
The motion was seconded by Andrew Brown.
The motion was passed.
6. 2003 Conference
It was announced that the next ACMC be held in Perth in 2003 – Lindsay Vickery to co-ordinate
Minutes Prepared by
Peter Mcilwain
ACMA Secretary 2002
Appendix – Reports
President's Report 2001/2002 – Andrew Brown
The 2001 conference was great success thanks to the efforts of Julian Knowles and his crew at UWS.
Several Chorma issues were produced by Dan Horwood. We thank him for his work on this important but often thankless task.
The ACMA email list has had its share of lively debates and times of quiet over the year. It continues to be a vital communication tool for members (and others). Ian Whalley has managed this list and the web site for a number of years now. He will not continue in this role so we thank him for his effort.
Another ACMA executive member not standing for re-election is Anthony Hood who, as treasurer, has brought the ACMA books into line and seen the implementation of the GST tax rules. We thank him for keeping our financial house in order.
ACMA members contributed to a special edition of the journal Organised Sound edited by Ian Whalley. Ian and David Worrall are now Australasian editors for Organised Sound.
The New Zealand Sonic Art II CD has recently been released and a call
for Vol. III will go out soon.
Paul Doornbusch represented ACMA at the ICMC on a panel examining the international accreditation of tertiary music Computer Music courses.
This lead to discussion about areas of study that are relevant for computer music courses. The follow list summarises work by Stephen Travis Pope.
- Music theory and analysis
- Musical representation
- Computer assisted composition
- Musical acoustics
- Musical perception (psychoacoustics)
- Machine recognition of musical signals and events
- Sound recording and Music production
- Sound synthesis and signal processing
- Sound spatialisation
- Gestural communication and control (including MIDI)
- Computer music performance
- Audio software design
- Audio hardware design
- Computers in music education
- Computer music history, literature and musicology
There has been discussion in a number of areas about the possibility of running an ICMC in Australia or New Zealand in the next four years. While this has been considered, and rejected on a number of previous occasions there is reason to believe that we might takes steps to look seriously at the possibility.
Overall, I get the feeling that the Australasian Computer Music community is feeling more positive about itself and its future this year than for some time, and that we are turning the corner to leave the disappointment of serious cut backs to Academic and artistic funding in the 1990s behind.
Andrew Brown
July 2002
Treasurers Report 2001/2002– Anthony Hood
Membership Officers Report 2001/2002– Peter Mcilwain
The decision taken at the last AGM to include membership in the ACMA conference fee has greatly improved the operations of ACMA membership. The 2002 conference sees the inclusion of over 70 memberships. This is a significant increase from last year where the membership was 25.
Web Officers Report 2001/2002.
Throughout the year, the ACMA site was updated as new material was
forwarded. Chroma has now been added up to the current No. 30.
The site remains to be run free of traffic and hosting charges to ACMA off
the Webserver at Waikato University. Connect West continues to register the
domain name gratis. It takes me about an hour a week to maintain.
There was one glitch in the year (early July) were the site could not be
accessed due to a DNS configuration problem. I am waiting on a reply from
Connect West to address this problem at the time of writing.
The site gets around 200 hits a day. The April stats are a good average,
although the hit rate usually increases dramatically closer to the annual
conference. A summary of stats for Sun-01-Apr-2001 00:11 to Mon-30-Apr-2001
23:20 (29.96 days) are below.
These patterns give an indication of what the ACMA executive might want to
discuss/provide in terms of more information for the site so that it is more
responsive to users.
Ian Whalley
General Summary
This report contains overall statistics.
Successful requests: 5,764
Average successful requests per day: 192
Successful requests for pages: 3,347
Average successful requests for pages per day: 111
Distinct files requested: 57
Distinct hosts served: 1,028
Data transferred: 122.784 Mbytes
Average data transferred per day: 4.097 Mbytes
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Directory Report
Listing directories with at least 0.01% of the traffic, sorted by the amount
of traffic.
reqs: %bytes: directory
----: ------: ---------
4382: 72.30%: [root directory]
883: 26.80%: /Chroma26-27/
499: 0.90%: /grafics/
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Request Report
This report lists the files on the site.
Listing files, sorted by the number of requests.
reqs: %reqs: last time: file
----: ------: ---------------: ----
736: 21.99%: 30/Apr/01 22:31: /
592: 17.69%: 30/Apr/01 22:31: /main5.html
563: 16.82%: 30/Apr/01 22:31: /nav5.html
317: 9.47%: 30/Apr/01 23:20: /Chroma24.html
217: 6.48%: 30/Apr/01 17:39: /Chroma24.pdf
128: 3.82%: 30/Apr/01 19:31: /conferences.html
127: 3.79%: 30/Apr/01 22:32: /links.html
119: 3.56%: 30/Apr/01 22:31: /whats_on.html
114: 3.41%: 30/Apr/01 17:53: /Chroma26-27/Chroma26-27.html
86: 2.57%: 30/Apr/01 19:58: /Chroma.html
75: 2.24%: 30/Apr/01 22:31: /committee.html
71: 2.12%: 30/Apr/01 22:32: /ozcomp.html
62: 1.85%: 29/Apr/01 02:16: /Chroma25.html
48: 1.43%: 30/Apr/01 19:30: /application2.html
39: 1.17%: 28/Apr/01 13:48: /Chroma25.pdf
29: 0.87%: 29/Apr/01 12:26: /2001Waveform.PDF
24: 0.72%: 27/Apr/01 10:33: /Chroma26-27/evidence.html
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Domain Report
This report lists the countries of the computers which requested files.
Listing domains with at least 2 requests, sorted by the number of requests.
reqs: %reqs: domain
----: ------: ------
1462: 25.36%: .au (Australia)
1067: 18.51%: .com (Commercial)
890: 15.44%: [unresolved numerical addresses]
794: 13.78%: .net (Network)
159: 2.76%: .nz (New Zealand)
77: 1.34%: ac.nz
25: 0.43%: tekotago.ac.nz
22: 0.38%: waikato.ac.nz
17: 0.29%: auckland.ac.nz
13: 0.23%: otago.ac.nz
58: 1.01%: co.nz
24: 0.42%: net.nz
144: 2.50%: .edu (USA Educational)
138: 2.39%: .nl (Netherlands)
138: 2.39%: .ca (Canada)
109: 1.89%: .uk (United Kingdom)
77: 1.34%: .jp (Japan)
65: 1.13%: [domain not given]
58: 1.01%: .es (Spain)
57: 0.99%: .cz (Czech Republic)
52: 0.90%: .fr (France)
51: 0.88%: .de (Germany)
48: 0.83%: .ch (Switzerland)
44: 0.76%: .co (Colombia)
39: 0.68%: .cl (Chile)
31: 0.54%: .br (Brazil)
31: 0.54%: .it (Italy)
26: 0.45%: .se (Sweden)
25: 0.43%: .at (Austria)
18: 0.31%: .dk (Denmark)
18: 0.31%: .il (Israel)
17: 0.29%: .be (Belgium)
16: 0.28%: .my (Malaysia)
16: 0.28%: .us (United States)
16: 0.28%: .gr (Greece)
15: 0.26%: .pl (Poland)
15: 0.26%: .no (Norway)
14: 0.24%: .ar (Argentina)
12: 0.21%: .mx (Mexico)
10: 0.17%: .ie (Ireland)
10: 0.17%: .sg (Singapore)
8: 0.14%: .fi (Finland)
8: 0.14%: .pt (Portugal)
7: 0.12%: .arpa (Old style Arpanet)
6: 0.10%: .pf (French Polynesia)
6: 0.10%: .ph (Philippines)
5: 0.09%: .org (Non-Profit Making Organisations)
5: 0.09%: .fj (Fiji)
5: 0.09%: .hk (Hong Kong)
5: 0.09%: .hu (Hungary)
5: 0.09%: .tr (Turkey)
5: 0.09%: .sk (Slovakia)
4: 0.07%: .tw (Taiwan)
4: 0.07%: .si (Slovenia)
3: 0.05%: .uy (Uruguay)
3: 0.05%: .gov (USA Government)
3: 0.05%: [not listed: 3 domains]
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Referring Site Report
This report lists which servers people followed links from.
Listing the top 30 referring sites by the number of requests, sorted by the
number of requests.
reqs: %reqs: site
----: ------: ----
3021: 75.71%: http://www.acma.asn.au/
229: 5.74%: http://acma.asn.au/
223: 5.59%: http://www.google.com/
133: 3.33%: http://farben.latrobe.edu.au/
70: 1.75%: http://google.yahoo.com/
29: 0.73%: http://www.altavista.com/
20: 0.50%: http://www.csu.edu.au/
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Referrer Report
This report lists the referrers (where people followed links from, or pages
which included this site's images).
Listing referring URLs, sorted by the number of requests.
reqs: URL
----: ---
947: http://www.acma.asn.au/main5.html
594: http://www.acma.asn.au/Chroma26-27/Chroma26-27.html
468: http://www.acma.asn.au/
407: http://www.acma.asn.au/nav5.html
301: http://www.acma.asn.au/Chroma24.html
222: http://www.google.com/search
210: http://www.acma.asn.au/Chroma25.html
132: http://farben.latrobe.edu.au/ACMA/
70: http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query
68: http://acma.asn.au/main5.html
46: http://acma.asn.au/nav5.html
45: http://www.acma.asn.au/Chroma26-27/evidence.html
45: http://acma.asn.au/Chroma25.html
43: http://acma.asn.au/Chroma24.html
33: http://www.acma.asn.au/Chroma.html
28: http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query
27: http://acma.asn.au/
19: http://www.google.de/search
16: http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/culture.html
11: http://search.ninemsn.com.au/results.asp
10: http://www.audiomulch.com/links.htm
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File Type Report
This report lists the extensions of requested files.
Listing extensions with at least 0.1% of the traffic, sorted by the amount
of traffic.
reqs: %reqs: Mbytes: %bytes: extension
----: ------: -------: ------: ---------
2326: 40.35%: 45.549: 37.10%: .html [Hypertext Markup Language]
1896: 32.89%: 40.951: 33.35%: .gif [GIF graphics]
256: 4.44%: 26.438: 21.53%: .pdf [Adobe Portable Document Format]
521: 9.04%: 9.399: 7.66%: .jpg [JPEG graphics]
29: 0.50%: 0.227: 0.19%: .pdf [Adobe Portable Document Format]
736: 12.77%: 0.218: 0.18%: [directories]
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Operating System Report
This report lists the operating systems used by visitors.
Listing operating systems, sorted by the number of requests for pages.
reqs: pages: %pages: OS
----: -----: ------: --
3542: 1858: 55.98%: Windows
1882: 1011: 30.46%: Windows 98
501: 250: 7.53%: Windows NT
418: 223: 6.72%: Windows 95
387: 202: 6.09%: Windows 2000
321: 158: 4.76%: Windows Me
27: 13: 0.39%: Unknown Windows
6: 1: 0.03%: Windows 32-bit
1252: 788: 23.74%: Macintosh
1233: 780: 23.50%: Macintosh PowerPC
19: 8: 0.24%: Macintosh 68k
625: 461: 13.89%: OS unknown
188: 167: 5.03%: Robots
126: 44: 1.33%: Unix
93: 34: 1.02%: Linux
32: 9: 0.27%: SunOS
1: 1: 0.03%: IRIX
3: 1: 0.03%: WebTV
Ian Whalley <musik@waikato.ac.nz>
Sat Jul 07
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