iscMME 2015
- Date
- Monday 15 June 2015
- Category
- Conference
ICSRiM Student Conference on Music, Multimedia and Electronics (iscMME)
Programme
| 09:30 | Registration | |
| 10:00 | Introduction and opening | |
| Paper session 1 (Chair: Tom Morris) | ||
| 10:10 | Jack Armitage, JUCE Cross-Platform C++ Library | |
| 10:30 | Beatrice Bretherton, Luke Windsor and Kia Ng, Tempo and the heart | |
| 10:50 | Asha Blatherwick and Jon Cobb, SenseEgg: A wireless music controller for teaching children with special learning needs | |
| 11:10 | tea/coffee break – 20mins | |
| Keynote session (Chair: Kia Ng) | ||
| 11:30 | Thor Magnusson, Interfacing Sound: Visual Representation of Sound in Musical Software Instruments | |
| Lunch and demo | ||
| 12:30-14:00 | Asha Blatherwick, SenseEgg: a novel wireless interface and software system to aid in engaging children with musical themes | |
| Jack Armitage, Seaboard GRAND Demo | ||
| Paper session 2 (Chair: Alex McLean) | ||
| 14:00 | Brett Gordon, The Integration of Interactive Controllers in Live Electroacoustic Performance | |
| 14:20 | Thomas Morris, Isabel Briant, Shaun Gaisie and Francis Robson, LIVeMotion: A Multi-Sensory System to Encourage the Awareness of Mindfulness | |
| 14:40 | Shaun Gaisie and Kia Ng, MuSync: An alternative black box approach to computer music performance | |
| 15:00 | Cem Cakmak, Online Gaming as a Model for Network Music Systems | |
| 15:20 | comfort break – 10mins | |
| Paper session 3 (Chair: David Moore) | ||
| 15:30 | Alex McLean, Live coding: creating languages for making music | |
| 15:50 | Thomas Roberts, Instrumental Tuition and its Physical Implications Upon Gestural Improvisation In An Interactive Environment | |
| 16:10 | tea/coffee break – 20mins | |
| Performance (Chair: Joanne Armitage) | ||
| 16:30 | Patrick Hartono, Kecapi III | |
| 16:50 | Luis Valdivia, Xaev1uox | |
| 17:10 | Michele Pizzi, An approach to speech synthesis and analysis for the realization of ‘Vocal Fry’ (2015) | |
| 17:30 | John García Rueda, Inland | |
| 17:50 | Closing | |
iscMME 2015 Keynote
We are delighted that Thor Magnusson will be your keynote speaker!
Bio: Thor Magnusson is a lecturer in Music at the University of Sussex. His work focusses on the impact digital technologies have on musical creativity and practice, explored through software development, composition and performance. He is the co-founder of ixi audio (www.ixi-audio.net), and has developed audio software, systems of generative music composition, written computer music tutorials and created two musical live coding environments. As part of ixi, he has taught workshops in creative music coding and sound installations, and given presentations, performances and visiting lectures at diverse art institutions, conservatories, and universities internationally. Further information: http://thormagnusson.github.io
Keynote: Interfacing Sound: Visual Representation of Sound in Musical Software Instruments
In this keynote Thor Magnusson will discuss work in composition, performance and the development of audiovisual software – from small instrumental applications to live coding systems. Exploring concepts of affordances and constraints, the ixi lang and Threnoscope live coding environments will be presented as examples of limited systems that frame the musician’s compositional thoughts. Both are systems that engage with the visual as an integral element of musical composition, equally as prescriptive and representative notation for musical processes.
The talk will examine how music software development goes hand in hand with music research; where the digital system’s requirements for specifications and completeness inevitably forces a strong understanding of the source domain. Such musical practice, when expressed through performance or composition, derives from a rigid research process, yet exists separately from it.