**THURSDAY 25 JANUARY with MICHAEL YOUNG**
Supported by the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS and the Goldsmiths GRADUATE
SCHOOL

25 JANUARY, 6-8PM, BEN PIMLOTT BUILDING, GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,
NEW CROSS, SE14 6NW. Seminar Rooms, Ground Floor, Right.

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

*AUR(O)RA: EXPLORING ATTRIBUTES OF A LIVE ALGORITHM*

This presentation proposes attributes of 'living computer music', the
product of live algorithmic behaviours. The improvisation system
"aur(o)ra", in development, illustrates how these can inform creative
design.

A live algorithm (LA) is the function of an ideal autonomous system able
to engage in performance with abilities analogous (if not identical) to a
human musician. An LA is distinct from established AI which generates
music from a rule-base, and is most relevant where structure and character
are emergent properties, products of interaction with the heterarchical
group. Living computer music diffeers from traditional live electronics
and fixed-media work by avoiding performer control or explicit a priori
knowledge (compositional design, notation). Instead, a number of other
properties are desirable...

Dr Michael Young is Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and
composer. Michael completed a PhD in composition in 1995. He has lectured
at the University of Wales, Bangor and Oxford Brookes University. His
music has drawn upon a range of live and electroacoustic resources; more
recent work has focused on interactive and generative music systems. An
undercurrent in his output is collaborative and interdisciplinary
practice; he has worked with jazz musicians and improvisers in the role of
pianist, laptop musician and/or composer, and has been commissioned to
provide electroacoustic music for performance in theatre and gallery
exhibitions. He is co-director, with Tim Blackwell, of the Live Algorithms
for Music Research Network, creaetd with funding from EPSRC.

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