Tag: musician-tweaked algorithmic composition

  • Se tu porti il vino, io faccio il pesto (for Roberto Doati)

    Se tu porti il vino, io faccio il pesto
    (for Roberto Doati)

    I’ve just made a binaural render of my Se tu porti il vino, io faccio il pesto. This was written (very quickly!) in 2020 and composed/mixed/mastered in 3rd-order ambisonics (16-channels). I took the opportunity to remaster this binaural stereo version using, amongst other things, Melda’s MCompressor plugin. I love this tool because it allows me to finely-tune several stages of…

  • hyperboles 3 in Montreal

    hyperboles 3 in Montreal

    Quasar Quartet, Le Gesu, Montreal, Canada, 19/1/17:   It was disappointingly warm in Montreal. I’d promised Martin temperatures of -20C and below (it reached -33C on my last trip) but it hovered around zero for the duration of our seven-day stay this time (reduced by a day due to cracks in our airplane’s windscreen—glad that happened…

  • Control Waves and Guest Professorship at the Folkwang University, Essen

    Control Waves and Guest Professorship at the Folkwang University, Essen

    I’m just coming to the end of my second week of teaching in the Institute for Computer Music and Electronic Media (ICEM) at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. It’s  a pleasure to be here, working with the dedicated and friendly students and staff.  I’ll be a Guest Professor until the end of 2016 and…

  • timing accuracy in hyperboles 2

    timing accuracy in hyperboles 2

    Those present at the St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh performance by Mieko Kanno of my hyperboles 2 (“until the cherries burst in the orchard”) on 20/5/16 were very patient. I told the audience that this violin plus computer piece would last 52 minutes but after the performance Dario Sanfilippo, who did the lights, told me it was more like…

  • Bangkok Thoughts: post-concert Q&A

    Bangkok Thoughts: post-concert Q&A

    Whilst searching online forY/Our Music, Salee Art Every’s excellent film about Thai  music, I stumbled across a complete recording of the post-concert question and answer session we did at Museum Siam on November 29th 2015, after the premiere of my jitterbug project. I’m always amazed at the concentrated and extended attention Thai audiences pay at events such as these.…

  • Portrait concerts in Aveiro, Portugal

    Portrait concerts in Aveiro, Portugal

    It was a pleasure to be a guest and one of the featured composers of the AVEIRO_SÍNTESE 2016 festival and the Dias De Música Electroacústica in Portugal earlier this month (5-10 April). We did a portrait concert in Aveiro and Seia featuring five pieces of mine (two 4-channel fixed media, three instrument plus electronics) spanning the years…

  • premiere of hyperboles 5, Birmingham

    premiere of hyperboles 5, Birmingham

      Ellen Fallowfield and I outed the latest version of my hyperboles project last weekend at the Crosscurrents Festival in Birmingham. After two days of intense rehearsals and development it was a real pleasure to play in the Dome of the Bramall Music Building. Scott Wilson and Annie Mahtani’s team are continuing and developing the Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre tradition…

  • hyperboles are the worst thing ever(aka Epimenides would have been gutted)Amsterdam

    hyperboles are the worst thing ever
    (aka Epimenides would have been gutted)
    Amsterdam

    Since August 2013 I’ve been working on hyperboles, a series of pieces that allow musicians to tweak the algorithm parameters that are used to generate the work’s score, sound files, and real-time processing. A software interface allows the creation of different versions of the piece with durations ranging from c. 15 to 52 minutes. It’s an invitation…

  • their faces on fire, San Marino

    their faces on fire, San Marino

    Gianpaolo Antongirolami and I premiered my new piece for baritone saxophone and computer their faces on fire in San Marino on June 20th 2014. It’s 100% algorithmically generated, and allows the musician to configure various parameters of the algorithms via a MaxMSP interface: Here’s the programme note: “their faces on fire” is a flexible, musician-tweaked algorithmic…