Algorithmic Composition (Symposium and Concert) – De Montfort University, Leicester, 13 February 2008

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Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre
De Montfort University, Leicester
New Media Seminar and Concert Series

All welcome – admission free.

Symposium and Concert: Algorithmic Composition

Date: Wednesday February 13, 2008
Location: PACE Building, STUDIO 1, Richmond St., Leicester

2-5pm – Symposium
Keynote speaker: Agostino di Scipio (Music Conservatory of Naples): ‘What is needed to give this presentation a title?’
Ron Herrema (DMU): ‘Paradoxically Algorithmic’
Bret Battey (DMU): ‘Variable-Coupled Map Networks’
Ollie Bown (Goldsmiths): ‘Compositional uses of continuous time recurrent neural networks’

7pm – Concert
Agostino di Scipio – two UK premieres: Untitled (Sound Synthesis, October 2001) and Untitled (Sound Processing, October 2004)
Ollie Bown (Icarus) & Tom Arthurs (F-IRE Collective & Not Applicable Artists) a work for trumpet and interactive electronics
Ron Herrema – two world premieres: One or Two Things and Music for Being