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Dear all,

Next Monday 8 March, at 4.15pm, Ilias Bergstrom will present the seminar Harnessing the embodied knowledge of musicians to allow the real-time performance of correlated music and computer graphics.

The seminar will take place in room 105 in the Electronic Engineering Department, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. Directions of how to get to Queen Mary are available at http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/newsevents/c4dm-seminars.php as are details of future seminars. The room is under access control, so people from outside QM will need to contact C4DM to get in - the lab phone number is +44 (0)20 7882 5528 and if I'm not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If you are coming from outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so I can make sure no-one's stuck outside the doors.

All are welcome to attend. For those unable to do so, a video recording of the seminar will be streamed live and also made available online after a few days. Please see the above website for details.

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Next Monday's seminar (8 March, 4.15pm):

Title:
Harnessing the embodied knowledge of musicians to allow the real-time performance of correlated music and computer graphics

Speaker:
Ilias Bergstrom
University College London


Abstract:
A presentation of a novel, entirely custom developed system, for facilitating the live performance of Visual Music / abstract animation. The hypothesis is that by using musical instruments as the primary user interface for the performance, we may usefully re-map the embodied/enactive knowledge that musicians have of their instruments. Musicians may then perform live visual music, taking advantage of the expressivity their instruments afford them. For this work, a new control data mapping strategy had to be developed, of ‘Mutable Mapping’, which entails manually manipulating the mapping during a performance, gradually altering and re-routing digital control data.


Bio:
Visual arts, music and technology have always competed for my attention, but never has one managed to distract me from the other for too long. From drawing and airbrushing, I was soon compelled to create imagery using the computer. Gravitating towards generative, procedural imagery, my computer science studies taught me to use program code as an artistic medium. In parallel, from playing drums and keyboards, I later also included computers in the music making process, intrigued by the sound creation capabilities they afford. My work has increasingly gravitated towards integrating visual arts, music and technology, while always maintaining live embodied performance at the center stage.

Ilias Bergstrom is a PhD candidate at University College London, currently putting the finishing touches to his thesis. He holds a masters degree from the UCL MSc in Vision, Imaging and Virtual Environments, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Växjö University, Sweden.



Tim Murray Browne

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Centre for Digital Music (C4DM)
Electronic Engineering Department
Queen Mary, University of London
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