Tim and Jasmin
It could be a difficult gig for honours students to speak about their projects early in the year. I thought this was the case with Tim Swalling who gave us a brief overview of A-Life and music and his thoughts on his project. I didn't get a full picture of what he was up to, but I suspect that's because he is still opening his project up. It would be great to hear from him again at the end of the year.
Let us begin by acknowledging Tim Swalling's initiative. Tim brought hand outs.
Tim's focus is Artificial Life as it pertains to music creation.
Artificial life seems to be like artificial intelligence, but with sex instead of intelligence. Fair trade. It's an evolutionary model and therefor deals with the reproduction and natural selection of populations rather than the learning style of an individual entity. 1
Tim pointed to Gommog's work as an example of this evolutionary model applied to music.
Tim seems to have some big plans - quoting his hand out, to "develop a more effective method for combining selective and developmental processes". 1 He said that this might be more complex than current options, as most contemporary a-life music is limited by the simplicity of its structures. 1
He also spoke about developing a system where the music is integral to the model, rather than the current industry standard of being an incidental byproduct of the population. 1
There was something about Tim - an air of competence (and it was more than just the handout) - which makes me keen to hear what evolves for him this year.
Jasmin Ward.
Jasmin rocks.
If the Uni introduces Official Hug a Hippy Day, Jasmin would be my first choice.
Her project sounded fascinating. She's using music technology to recycle urban sonic waste into music. 2 I thought this was intelligent, creative, proactive and well just darn impressive. Her project reminds me of Robin Minard's focus, they seem to share a concern for the sonic experience of the urban community. Interesting that they both have an architectural leaning. It will be fascinating to see what Jasmin ends up doing with this and future projects.
Jasmin was obviously not at ease speaking in front of an audience. It almost hurt to watch her, and I didn't catch everything she said. Hopefully she will distribute her paper throughout the flightless bird of EMU so we can get a deeper understanding of her vision and activities. Maybe a microphone would be worth considering, for future quieter speakers.
What a delight to have Tim, Jasmin and Seb speak to us. It's inspirational to hear what study in music technology could enable us newbies to do, if we survive the initiation.
1. Tim Swalling. Bringing Music to A-Life: Artificial Life in the Creation of Music Lecture presented at University of Adelaide, 4 May 2006.
2. Jasmin Ward. Lecture presented at University of Adelaide, 4 May 2006
Let us begin by acknowledging Tim Swalling's initiative. Tim brought hand outs.
Tim's focus is Artificial Life as it pertains to music creation.
Artificial life seems to be like artificial intelligence, but with sex instead of intelligence. Fair trade. It's an evolutionary model and therefor deals with the reproduction and natural selection of populations rather than the learning style of an individual entity. 1
Tim pointed to Gommog's work as an example of this evolutionary model applied to music.
Tim seems to have some big plans - quoting his hand out, to "develop a more effective method for combining selective and developmental processes". 1 He said that this might be more complex than current options, as most contemporary a-life music is limited by the simplicity of its structures. 1
He also spoke about developing a system where the music is integral to the model, rather than the current industry standard of being an incidental byproduct of the population. 1
There was something about Tim - an air of competence (and it was more than just the handout) - which makes me keen to hear what evolves for him this year.
Jasmin Ward.
Jasmin rocks.
If the Uni introduces Official Hug a Hippy Day, Jasmin would be my first choice.
Her project sounded fascinating. She's using music technology to recycle urban sonic waste into music. 2 I thought this was intelligent, creative, proactive and well just darn impressive. Her project reminds me of Robin Minard's focus, they seem to share a concern for the sonic experience of the urban community. Interesting that they both have an architectural leaning. It will be fascinating to see what Jasmin ends up doing with this and future projects.
Jasmin was obviously not at ease speaking in front of an audience. It almost hurt to watch her, and I didn't catch everything she said. Hopefully she will distribute her paper throughout the flightless bird of EMU so we can get a deeper understanding of her vision and activities. Maybe a microphone would be worth considering, for future quieter speakers.
What a delight to have Tim, Jasmin and Seb speak to us. It's inspirational to hear what study in music technology could enable us newbies to do, if we survive the initiation.
1. Tim Swalling. Bringing Music to A-Life: Artificial Life in the Creation of Music Lecture presented at University of Adelaide, 4 May 2006.
2. Jasmin Ward. Lecture presented at University of Adelaide, 4 May 2006
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