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Music Tech at IFI
We recently hosted a music technology event at the Department of Informatics to gather together researchers and students from the University of Oslo to see performances and demonstrations of current research.
read morePerforming with a Neural Touch-Screen Ensemble
Since about 2011, I’ve been performing music with various kinds of touch-screen devices in percussion ensembles, new music groups, improvisation workshops, installations, as well as my dedicated iPad group, Ensemble Metatone. Most of these events were recorded; detailed touch and gestural information was collected including classifications of each ensemble member’s gesture every second during each performance. Since moving to Oslo, however, I don’t have an iPad band! This leads to the question: Given all this performance data, can I make an artificial touch-screen ensemble using deep neural networks?
Interactive Music at Oslo Konserthust
We recently had the chance to present some experimental musical instruments developed as part of the EPEC project at Oslo Konserthus as part of their “Score” video game music concert.
read morePhaseRings: Music for ML-Connected Touchscreen Ensemble
PhaseRings is a touchscreen instrument that works within an ML-connected ensemble. A server tracks the four performers’ improvisations and adjusts their user interface during the performance to give them access to different sounds on their screens.
read moreConcert at ICAD2016
I joined the ANU Experimental Music Studio to perform several works at the International Conference on Auditory Display at the ANU School of Music last week - here’s some photos!
read moreNIME2015: Tracking an iPad Ensemble with Gesture Classification and Transition Matrices
I’ve just gotten back from NIME2015 in Baton Rouge where I presented a poster about my performance tracking system for iPad ensembles. Great to catch up with new and old NIMErs! The paper is available here and here’s the text of the poster:
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