Performance/talk: Embodying algorithmic music

I’m off to the RMA study day on “Embodied Research Methods in Music& Sound” in Liverpool on Tues 18th May. I’m looking forward to enjoying the very wide range of contributions, and hopefully getting some interesting responses to my ten-minute session, here’s the abstract: Embodying algorithmic musicPeople have been making computer music with algorithms for long enough that these approaches are becoming ancestral technology. This brings us to an interesting point in the development of algorithmic music. Making music with code is still a comparatively fringe activity, but as a medium for human expression, is now one of the few use cases left for writing code entirely by hand. In this context, it is becoming easier to see what algorithmic music is, and how it relates to older ancestral traditions. The embodied research method I’d like to share is performing algorithmic music in the form of vocal patterns, without the use of the computer, and then importing knowledge back to the design of…