[spectre] June meeting - David Plans Casal

[Paul Brown]

Reminder:  CAS is pleased to announce it's June meeting: a talk
and performance by David Plans Casal.  This meeting is free and
is open to the public.  Please circulate to interested colleagues,
students and friends.

Tuesday 3 June - 6:30 for 7:00 pm

David Plans Casal

MPEG7 and genetic co-evolution:  Sound Improvisation Strategies

Venue:  Room G22, History of Art Film and Visual Media
Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Nearest tubes - Euston Square, Warren Street & Russell Square
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/index_html

Musical improvisation is driven mainly by the unconscious mind,
engaging the dialogic imagination to reference the entire
cultural heritage of an improviser in a single flash. This
workshop will introduce a case study of evolutionary computation
techniques, in particular genetic co-evolution, as applied to the
frequency domain using MPEG7 techniques, in order to create an
artificial agent that mediates between an improviser and her
unconscious mind, to probe and unblock improvisatory action in
live music performance or practice.

David Plans Casal is a musician and researcher, and digital
technologist at Brunel University. His research focuses on
artificial intelligence and music. He has given concerts at IRCAM
(Igor Stravinsky Hall), the Sonic Arts Research Centre in
Belfast, and several London venues. His research proposes that
musical improvisation is driven mainly by the unconscious mind,
engaging the dialogic imagination to reference the entire
cultural heritage of an improviser in a single flash. He uses
evolutionary computation techniques, in particular genetic
co-evolution, as applied to the frequency domain using MPEG7
techniques, in order to create an artificial agent that mediates
between an improviser and her unconscious mind, to probe and
unblock improvisatory action in live music performance or
practice.

Advance notice - a CAS-Xtra meeting will be held on 12 June in
association with TESLA:  Anna Valentina Murch, Recent Large-Scale
Public Artwork

2008 is CAS 40 = 40 years of supporting the computer arts

http://www.computer-arts-society.com

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