Research

With the aim of having a framework for composition and interaction of sonic experiences spread over huge areas such as parks, field games, sea, deserts, and open spaces this work-on-progress helps controlling, scheduling, and organizing distributed events. The framework consist of a custom piece of hardware and also a plug-ing for the Juum software.

GAB is an electronic system that allows the reinterpretation of musical material in real time. It is designed to be used by a pianist during the performance of musical improvisations.

Thesis Abstract
Gestural Improvisation is a type of free improvisation that aims to create short and long-term relationships in the acoustic parameters of music, such as pitch and intensity. The gestural improvisation style is closely related to the concept of real-time composition. This work describes a set of experiments based on signal processing methods and machine learning techniques that are applied to gestural improvisation music. These methods are commonly applied to other styles of music and employed in music information retrieval and computational musicology, among other elds. As a case-study, a set of twenty-one multi-channel recordings of music performed by the ve-member gestural improvisation group EnsAmble Crumble is analyzed.

The Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface (IMPI) is a piece of software for the creation and guidance of audiovisual improvisations. By drawing into a digital tablet using a defined syntax, a conductor generates in real time both the music displayed in several formats on computer screens for the musicians, and dynamic graphics projected on the stage in synchronicity with the music. The kind of musical style this system is intended for is non-tonal, non-rhythmic, and texture-oriented, which means that strong emphasis is put on the control of timbral qualities and continuum transitions. One of the main goals of the system is the translation of planned compositional elements such as precise structure and synchronization between instruments into the improvisatory domain. The graphics that IMPI generates are organic, fluid, vivid, dynamic, and unified with the music.