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Concert with Andromeda is Coming and Artificially Intelligent Friends
Andromeda is Coming, the exploratory music project of (me!) Charles Martin and Alec Hunter recently developed a concert of new works all featuring research into intelligent (or AI-enabled) musical instruments. Incorporating new perspectives in our work, we invited two members of my ANU SMCClab research lab, Yichen Wang and Sandy Ma to join us for a 60-minute concert of live audio-visual performances.
read moreICASSP 2024 in Seoul, Korea
I travelled to Seoul, Korea for ICASSP 2024 to see Xinlei Niu present our paper SoundLoCD: An Efficient Conditional Discrete Contrastive Latent Diffusion Model for Text-to-Sound Generation.
read moreExperimenting with Intelligent Synths and AI in a MIDI Plug
I’m back at work for a research-focussed year and getting back to the Intelligent Musical Instruments theme that I set for my lab.
read moreOrbits: Magic Lanterns at Powerhouse Late
In August 2023, I performed live electronic music as part of a magic lantern show at the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, Sydney. We were invited to present the show as a response to the museum’s drawing exhibition A Line, A Web, A World. The recording of my live soundtrack performance became the album Orbits.
read moreTeaching 14 Laptop Ensembles
This is a write-up of my presentation at the 2023 Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC2023), held at the University of New England in Parramatta, NSW in October 2023. The talk described five years of running a laptop ensemble as a credit course in the ANU School of Computing, and the challenges — and surprises — of scaling it to 61 students in 2023.
read moreSMCClab projects on gesture, collaboration and intelligence
I’ve recently been thinking about projects my lab has been working on and how to focus our work in future to take advantage of collaboration and knowledge-sharing within my group.
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