CEMI: The Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
Computer music center at the University of North Texas (I happen to know it well...) Amazing place to do a concert! Check out their website.
IRCAM: Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique
What else needs to be said? Some good friends and collaborators in residence include Emmanuel Fléty, Norbert Schnell, Francois Déchelle, and more.
The place where interactive performance gets real. Musicality and ingenuity combined with equal parts humour and brilliance. Michel, Joel, and Frank make it happen.
CNMAT: Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
David Wessel heads up the place where a lot of the latest cool stuff seems to originate. I spent a lot of time there, making music and looking for cables...
CIRMMT: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology
Relatively new center at McGill that is making a name for itself with researchers like Marcelo Wanderley and Philippe Depalle. Played host to NIME 2003.
NIME: New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Recently formed organization that sponsors the annual international NIME conference. The place to go for the latest in gestural control and interactive performance.
A collaboration between computer music centers at LSU, University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas. The group sponsors an annual student conference that rotates between the three institutions.
