BCS Software Practice Advancement specialist group
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SPA-210 - Algorithmic Musical Composition
Dave Harvey, SPA Chair and CTO of Sibelius Software (www.sibelius.com)
18:30-20:00, TUESDAY(!) 4th September 2007
(Complimentary sandwiches and refreshments from 6pm)
Venue: BCS Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA
Admission Free. Please pre-register as soon as possible under
http://bcs-spa.org/cgi-bin/view/SPA/AlgorithmicComposition . BCS London
insists on being furnished with a complete list of expected attendees by
close of business one week before the meeting (in this case, Tuesday 28th
August). This is both for security reasons and so that they can order the
right amount of food.
Please download and print out a meeting flyer from the above URL to display
at your place of work. There you will also find a location map.
Synopsis
Since the days of Pythagoras, musicians and music theorists have explored
the relationships between music, pattern, process and mathematics. Mostly
this thinking informs models of musical structure and content: sometimes
this crosses over into tools or processes for creating music.
This talk will take a look at the development of algorithmic composition,
from Fux's codification of counterpoint and Mozart's famous musical dice
game, through to the possibilities opened up by computers and programs such
as KOAN, Max and David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence - and pose
some interesting questions along the way about what sort of musical meaning
results from these processes.
Needless to say, there'll be plenty to listen to, including some or all of
the following:
* Mash-up - Mazurka (Chopin/EMI) plus Herma (Xenakis)
* First species counterpoint
* Musical dice - minuet by "Mozart"
* Symphony Op 21 - second movement (Anton von Webern)
* Le Marteau sans Maitre - I (Pierre Boulez)
* Herma (Iannis Xenakis)
* Koan examples
* Max example
* Keykit example - Reich Clapping Music process
* Mazurka (Chopin/EMI)
Speaker Biography
David Harvey has two decades of experience in designing, building and
managing the development of software. In April 2004 he took on the role of
CTO at Sibelius Software, developers of the world's leading music notation
software. Previously he was technical Architect at UBS Investment Bank, and
has worked throughout the City of London on advanced middleware libraries
and architectures. As a consultant he has helped organisations make
effective use of object technology, and has delivered introductory and
advanced training courses in C++ and OO design. He has presented sessions at
the OT conference and elsewhere on C++, patterns, distributed computing and
software architecture, jointly (with Paul Dyson) presented the UK's first
workshop on Extreme Programming, and was conference chair for OT99.
David is also a guitarist and composer, and in 2006 gave the SPA
conference's first electric guitar recital...
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SPA Meetings Programme Organiser -
Immo Huneke, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Forthcoming meetings:
* 12th September, Cambridge (topic TBA)
* Mon(!) 8th October: SPA211 (topic TBA)
* 10th October 2007, Cambridge: Test-Driven Development - Ivan Moore
* Tue(!) 30th October: SPA212 - The new C++ standard - Lois Goldthwaite
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