Episode 7: Michael Gurevich, lecturer at the Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen’s University, Belfast, serves as guest editor of the Winter 2010 issue of Computer Music Journal. In this podcast, Michael discusses the fields of Computer Music and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The conversation was recorded on December 14, 2010. [1]

Seaquence is an experimental musical petri-dish. Adopting a biological metaphor, Seaquence allows you to create and combine musical lifeforms into unique, dynamic compositions. This is a short demo showing how it works. Visit the project at seaquence.org

I’ve created my own system based on WII remotes, Max Msp, Osculator and FM8 in order to translate my drawings into Sound, every line or shape has its own frequency, I believe that, the power of thinking contains a lot of visuals, music, motion and much more in it,
on this performance I’ve been trying to [...]

Graph layouts use spring layout algorithms. Springs and other physical systems are very interesting systems and have fundamentally musical properties such as decay and oscillation.

I took the graph drawer found here and stole the state of the graph every couple of frames: http://js1k.com/demo/618

The instrument I used in the background is an additive string [...]

Slow-Fi is a generative self correcting audio/visual environment. Original concept and software by Jason Soares 2004. Modified in 2009 by Jason Soares & JFRE Coad. Download for Mac/PC. Slow-Fi EP release August 24th, 2010 on imputor? Records.

Once running, the emitter (pulsing circle) will launch hexagon shapes from itself. These hexagons [...]

This is a performance for Buchla Lightning and synthesizer from 1998. I am, in 2010, returning to my work with the Lightning, and find that this performance still stands the test of time, despite the fairly low quality of the video. MaxMSP was used to control the Lightning performance. The entire performance is 13 minutes [...]

This prototype interface was specifically designed to be used by multiple users at once, which is an interesting implication of multi-touch interfaces.

Initially based on only mouse and keyboard interaction and single-user oriented interaction paradigms, it now provides multi-user oriented alternative interaction methods thanks to the rapid improvements in technology. However, the technology providing the user [...]

In the latest issue of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s online journal, eContact, Dylan Menzies unveils the O-Bow. The O-Bow uses an optical flow sensor, like the one on the bottom of your mouse, to sense speed, direction and angle of motion.

The O-Bow is a bow controller consisting of an optical flow sensor [...]