Funding for the CTI, which started in 1989 and was initially for three years, is allocated on an annual basis by the English, Scottish and Welsh Higher Education Funding Councils and by the Department for Education in Northern Ireland. We are pleased to report that the four funding councils have agreed in principle to continued funding of CTI. As with all Funding Council grants, of course, the money is awarded annually but it is anticipated that their support will continue until July 1999.
CTI Music expanded in April 1994 when Barbara Hargreaves joined us as Centre Secretary. She has taken over the management of our expanding mailing lists, the logging and handling of enquiries and the production of this newsletter. Her telephone number is given on our home page. Please note also that our fax number has changed again and that our telephone numbers now include the new area codes.
In the last year we have initiated a series of seminar/workshops and two of these have been held so far, both at Lancaster. In April, Stephanie Sobey-Jones and Naji Simaan from Steinberg (Education Co-ordinator and UK Technical Support, respectively), gave a detailed workshop on Cubase. They demonstrated Steinberg's latest developments in software for MIDI recording, digital audio recording and score printing for Atari, IBM and Apple Macintosh computers. In June, Nigel Morgan spent a day guiding composers and other interested music lecturers in the use of Tonality Systems' Symbolic Composer for the Macintosh. We are grateful to Holden's Computer Services of Preston for the loan of six LC475 computers for the day.
As part of another new CTI venture, we have started providing information in electronic form via the World Wide Web. At present only a few Web pages are available but we hope soon to have some back issues of Musicus on-line, and we are starting a greatly expanded Software Directory. We have already transferred our List of Interesting Mailing Lists on to the Web and we are carrying conference announcements and calls for papers. Our pages also allow access to vast quantities of musical information stored and maintained at other sites around the world. An article on the Web appears later in this newsletter.
CTI exists to serve the needs of the Higher Education community in the UK. If there is anything that you would like us to do, please get in touch with us.
Lisa Whistlecroft