The College of Arts and Letters will host an annual symposium that will bring together scholars from around the world to discuss various issues at the intersection of Science, Technology, and Values. This year's conference, which is being organized by the Program in Philosophy and is being co-sponsored by the Howe School of Technology Management, will have as its theme "Topics in Bioethics".

The event will take place April 25 -26, 2008, and will begin with a keynote panel that includes Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and member of the President's Council on Bioethics, and Rosamund Rhodes, Professor of Bio-medical ethics in the Department of Medical Education at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York.

Paper proposals for the second day of sessions can be sent to the address below. Submissions are welcome from across disciplines and fields, including, but not limited to: Bio-ethics, bio-technology, green engineering, technology and the arts, globalization and technology, risk assessment, values and medicine, etc.

For more information please contact:

James Hanks
Associate Professor
Peirce
Room 207
Phone: 201.216.5365
Fax: 201.216.8245

jhanks@stevens.edu

Prof. David Musial recently co-produced a Ballad in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King titled "I Have A Real Dream". Musial wrote the lyrics and his associate Steve Clark from Germany wrote the melody and hired the Prague Symphonic Orchestra to record the music.  Music arranged for seven of the artists from his Smart Trax Media company to perform the vocals.  David produced and engineered a total of 192 vocal tracks with off of the singers delivering lead as well as harmony vocals.  Musial travelled to Prince Edward Island one weekend in October to record the newest artist signed to his One World Artists Management company and the mission was honored with a feature article in the "Guardian News" for the Charlottetown area of the Province. 

http://www.getsmarttrax.com/BradyCudmore-SmartTraxMedia-CanadaNewspaper-11-2007.jpg

In January the song started to air on CBC Radio and Musial was interviewed via cel phone when he was in Los Angeles 2 weeks ago for a Music Convention by a reporter from CBC TV in Canada.  The music video and an interview will air on their evening news soon.  Here is a link for the Music Video Musial produced and directed...

http://www.getsmarttrax.com/ihavearealdream1.wmv

A live performance with an Orchestra has been offered for Dr. Martin Luther King Day in 2009 at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire. (More details to follow.)

This song is one of over 30 from his Smart Trax project which is going to commercial distribution in the Spring.  Many of our students since 1993, have observed this project grow, and have even been present at his SkyRoom Studio complex to learn the art of contemporary music production.

http://www.GetSmartSongs.com

http://www.SkyRoomStudios.com

For more information please contact:

David Musial
Program Director, Music & Technology
Morton
Room 110
Phone: 201.216.5115
Fax: 201.216.8245

dmusial@stevens.edu

Prof. Andy Brick Orchestrates Halo for the Seattle Symphony

Prof. Andy Brick is pleased to announce the completion of work on his concert orchestration of music from the blockbuster video game series Halo 1,2 and 3. Prof. Brick worked with famed Halo composer Marty O'Donnell to create this dynamic score. The score, which included professor Brick's premier orchestration of music from Halo 3 received its debut performances with the Fort Worth and Seattle Symphonies.

From Wikipedia...

"[Halo] has been praised as being among the best and most influential first-person shooters on a game console, with Halo being the Microsoft Xbox's "killer app". This has led to the term "Halo killer" being used to describe console games that aspire to be better than Halo.[3] Halo's sequel, Halo 2, broke sales records for a media release,[4] and Halo 3 sold more than US $170 million worth of copies in the first 24 hours of release, breaking the record of Halo 2.[5] As of October 4, 2007, all three Halo games combined have sold more than 20 million copies.[6] The franchise has expanded to include five novels, several graphic novels, and numerous other licensed products, from action figures to Mountain Dew. The cultural impact of the Halo series has been compared to that of the Star Wars franchise,[7] with those who enjoy the series being dubbed the "Halo Nation".[8][9] "

For more information please contact:

Andrew Brick
Industry Associate Professor, Co-Director: Music & Technology
Morton
Room 106
Phone: 201.216.8530
Fax: 201.216.8245

abrick@stevens.edu

Andy Brick, Professor of Music Theory and Orchestration, is happy to announce the completion of work on the epic MMORPG Warhammer: Day of Reckoning for Electronic Arts' Myhic subsidiary.

This highly anticipated title from EA/Mythic, the worlds largest game developer, is slated to be the largest grossing online game ever. With over 480,000 applications for prerelease beta versions, the game is projected to eclipse on-line subscriptions of the infamous World of Warcraft.

For this title, Professor Brick was contracted to conduct the Prague Symphony and Filmharmonic Orchestra of Prague through 70 minutes of music orchestrated by the Stevens Inst. Professor.

A video featuring a narration by EA/Mythic music director Brad Derrick features Prof. Brick in action with the Orchestra and can be found @

http://www.warhammeronline.com/english/home/index.php

For more information please contact:

Andrew Brick
Industry Associate Professor, Co-Director: Music & Technology
Morton
Room 106
Phone: 201.216.8530
Fax: 201.216.8245

abrick@stevens.edu

The college of Arts and Letters will host an annual symposium that will bring together scholars from around the world to discuss various issues at the intersection of Science, Technology, and Values. This year's conference, which is being organized by the Program in Philosophy and is being co-sponsored by the Howe School of Technology Management, will have as its theme "Topics in Bioethics".

The event will take place April 25 -26, 2008, and will begin with a keynote panel that includes Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and member of the President's Council on Bioethics, and Rosamund Rhodes, Professor of Bio-medical ethics in the Department of Medical Education at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York.

Paper proposals for the second day of sessions can be sent to the address below. Submissions are welcome from across disciplines and fields, including, but not limited to: Bio-ethics, bio-technology, green engineering, technology and the arts, globalization and technology, risk assessment, values and medicine, etc.

For more information please contact:

James Hanks
Associate Professor
Peirce
Room 207
Phone: 201.216.5365
Fax: 201.216.8245

jhanks@stevens.edu