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General discussions about the state of music composition in the 21st century, deep dives into the “whys” and “hows” of specific projects, and for the more technically inclined, research observations involving immersive audio, music informatics, and computational creativity.
Dolby Atmos is here and it's tempting to route a few audio tracks into your multichannel bus and invite your family and friends for a festival of frenetic panning. But in reality, it's tough to create …
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An EP featuring music collaboratively composed with Isomer between 2017 and 2018 is now available on a wide range of streaming sites. Here's the track list: Dark Halls (4:32) Bundles of …
Last March I reconfigured the studio to accommodate a wide 4 channel stereo speaker setup. I began developing several projects for this front-facing semi-circle, but found they translated horribly …
How Can You Build on Such a Quicksand? George Rochberg spent his life arguing for a renewal of humanist values in art. He felt the aleatoric and serial music that dominated his time was destined to …
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. In particular, his uncanny ability to capture the lens-accurate effects of light and shadow …
Allan Schindler, my friend, mentor, and colleague, passed away suddenly on October 8th, 2018. The folks at Eastman reached out to colleagues and alumni, and set up a memorial concert for Allan on …
I spent the last three weeks in Florida working with a 10-speaker dome configuration. But for reasons both musical and practical, I won't be adopting the dome in my current workflow. At least not …
I've just returned from a three-week residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida -- and what an INCREDIBLE experience it was! From the wonderful studio facilities to …
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After graduating Eastman in 2002, I got involved with music informatics research and spent several years developing music search and discovery technologies. During that time, I was exposed to emerging …
Isomer is a suite of software that produces an abstracted representation of the characteristic trends present in musical language through the analysis of symbolic or audio input. Isomer uses this …
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Much of what currently passes as interdisciplinary work in computational creativity is profoundly lacking in artistic experience and understanding. This is a pervasive and critical flaw -- after all, …
It's widely accepted that music elicits similar emotional responses from culturally connected groups of human listeners. Less clear is how various aspects of musical language contribute to these …
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