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 …