January 22, 2007
AUR(O)RA:
EXPLORING ATTRIBUTES OF A LIVE ALGORITHM
NEW THURSDAY CLUB EVENT :: MICHAEL YOUNG :: THURSDAY 25 JANUARY, 6-8PM, BEN PIMLOTT BUILDING, GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, NEW CROSS, SE14 6NW :: FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME.
AUR(O)RA: EXPLORING ATTRIBUTES OF A LIVE ALGORITHM--This presentation proposes attributes of 'living computer music', the product of live algorithmic behaviours. The improvisation system "aur(o)ra", in development, illustrates how these can inform creative design.
A live algorithm (LA) is the function of an ideal autonomous system able to engage in performance with abilities analogous (if not identical) to a human musician. An LA is distinct from established AI which generates music from a rule-base, and is most relevant where structure and character are emergent properties, products of interaction with the heterarchical group. Living computer music diffeers from traditional live electronics and fixed-media work by avoiding performer control or explicit a priori knowledge (compositional design, notation). Instead, a number of other properties are desirable...
Dr Michael Young is Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and composer. Michael completed a PhD in composition in 1995. He has lectured at the University of Wales, Bangor and Oxford Brookes University. His music has drawn upon a range of live and electroacoustic resources; more recent work has focused on interactive and generative music systems. An undercurrent in his output is collaborative and interdisciplinary practice; he has worked with jazz musicians and improvisers in the role of pianist, laptop musician and/or composer, and has been commissioned to provide electroacoustic music for performance in theatre and gallery exhibitions. He is co-director, with Tim Blackwell, of the Live Algorithms for Music Research Network, creaetd with funding from EPSRC.
For more information on the Thursday Club check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email maria x at drp01mc[at]gold.ac.uk
Posted by jo at January 22, 2007 05:00 PM
