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 …
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 …
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, …
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. …
Inferring Meaning from Expectation
Of all the sublime moments in operatic literature, few surpass "Pur ti miro, pur ti godo" (I gaze at you, I possess you), the final love duet between Nero and Poppea in Monteverdi's "L'incoronazione …
Radio Project: Valley of the Tharsans
After many long months of development and testing, I'm thrilled to announce Isomer's composition debut! And if that's not exciting enough, Isomer's first project was recently selected for programming …
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