EVOLUTIONARY AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS FOR MUSIC AND ART

I didn't like computers until I learnt to programme. Then I realised that they provided a pretty unique means of understanding the world. Then I realised that these same models that are used to understand the world could be used to make things that somehow captured something of the organisational principles of living things.

These basic adaptive systems turn out to be really appealing control systems for all kinds of audio and visual and audio-visual systems - for performance, improvising and animation.

Then I realised that the whole endeavour could be turned on its head and the same sets of tools could be used to not only understand the world, but invent new worlds. Poetry, science-fiction, composition and animation all in one. And you can perform with them. Brilliant.

Contact: alice[at]ecila.org

Past affiliations:

For ongoing work at CEMA, please visit the Design After Nature Project blog.
Visit Sussex University for my Music Informatics Music and Algorithms course notes.
Archives of all blip events can be found at www.blip.me.uk
CCNR (Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics) within the
EASy (Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems groups) at the University of Sussex.
Core member of Live Algorithms for Music (LAM) research network.