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SUMMARY:Notes on the Synthesis of Music - Dr Sam Aaron: Research Associate
 \, Computer Laboratory\, Digital Technology Group\, University of Cambridg
 e
DTSTART:20120307T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Andreas Bulling
DESCRIPTION:Can programming languages help us to free our creative potenti
 al? Formalised descriptions of data\, events and process have clearly been
  used to great effect within academic and industrial settings but could th
 ey also be useful in artistic contexts?\n\nThis talk introduces Improcess\
 , a novel cross-disciplinary collaborative project focussed on the design 
 and development of tools to structure the communication between performer 
 and musical process. One of the core outputs of Improcess is the continued
  development of Overtone a Clojure front-end to the state-of-the-art realt
 ime sound synthesis engine SuperCollider. Overtone is currently being esta
 blished as a music platform for both research and performance. It facilita
 tes a truly exciting high-level exploration of musical ideas such as the d
 esign and structure of sound\, the coordination of multiple concurrent per
 formers and the creation of a semantically rich meta-model for musical con
 cepts capable of being projected to an arbitrary number of bespoke Domain 
 Specific Languages.\n\nThrough live coding\, monome button bashing and lou
 d music performances such as synthesized dubstep\, we'll dive into the arc
 hitecture of the system and explore some of the deeper computational quest
 ions that working in a musical context forces you to answer. Finally we wi
 ll emphasise the importance of musical notation - not just from an ethnomu
 sicological perspective but also as an opportunity to explore the design a
 nd application of programming languages in novel contexts.\n
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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