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 …
Towards a Progressive Art
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 …
The Aural Savant
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 Memorial
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 …
4 Channels Wide
The last three weeks I spent in Florida working with a 10-speaker dome configuration were invaluable. But for reasons both musical and practical, I won't be adopting the dome in my current …
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency
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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Composing Music with Isomer
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 …
Representing Musical Models (the Isomer way)
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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The Pleasures of Music
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, …
Automating Musical Descriptions: A Case Study
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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A Study in Stylometry
In July of 2013, Patrick Juola, a computer science/mathematics researcher at Duquesne University, uncovered the fact that J.K. Rowling was writing detective novels under an assumed name. Juola used …
What the Future Sounds Like
Electronic music pioneer Peter Zinovieff sums up Isomer's raison d'etre in a single sentence... https://youtu.be/8KkW8Ul7Q1I?t=25m35s See this fantastic documentary in its entirety here. …