00100		Leland Smith has been associated with computer music
00200	
00300	since 1966 when a sound generating system was developed at the
00400	
00500	Stanford Artificial Intelligence project.  The system used at
00600	
00700	Stanford is a refinement and expansion of ideas first developed
00800	
00900	at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in the late 50's.  During the
01000	
01100	past eight years Stanford has become the acknowledged leader in
01200	
01300	the field of computer music.  Concepts developed by Professor
01400	
01500	Smith and his colleague John Chowning are now being used in
01600	
01700	several computer sound systems in the U.S.A. and Europe.
01800	
01900		The Stanford approach to computer music emphasizes
02000	
02100	the use of the computer as a musical instrument -- perhaps the
02200	
02300	most flexible musical instrument ever developed.  As with any
02400	
02500	other instrument, the musicality of the result depends upon
02600	
02700	the musicality of the person "playing" the instrument.  However,
02800	
02900	in its present form, the computer is not at all played like other
03000	
03100	instruments.  Rather one writes a series of detailed instructions
03200	
03300	about how the music should sound and the computer (perfect slave
03350	
03375	that it is) follows these instructions exactly as written.
03387	
03400	Leland Smith's main contribution to this field has been in the
03500	
03600	development of means to communicate with the computer on musical
03700	
03800	terms.
03900	
04000		As an off-shoot of his work with computer sound systems
04100	
04200	Professor Smith has also created a computerized editing and printing
04300	
04400	system for music publishing.  This system promises to become the
04500	
04600	standard for printed music in the future.
04700	
04800		Leland Smith has been active in almost every aspect of
04900	
05000	the field of music over the past 30 years.  He has performed as
05100	
05200	a member of the orchestra with the Chicago Symphony, the San
05300	
05400	Francisco Symphony and many other groups.  His compositions have
05500	
05600	been performed at many locations here and abroad.  He has taught at
05700	
05800	Mills College, the University of Chicago and, for fifteen years,
05900	
06000	at Stanford.  During the summer of 1974 he will teach a workshop
06100	
06200	on Computer Music at Colgate University in New York.