LAM
The Live Algorithms for Music Network
Partner Institutions
Goldsmiths College, London
University of Glasgow, Centre for Music Technology
Description
Quoting the LAM home page:
The network will investigate the use of autonomous computers in creative performance, promoting the development of human-machine interaction. Our interest is in systems that run live algorithms, that is to say systems which collaborate actively with human performers - or other machines - in real-time performance, and can do so without the presence of a human operator. The requirement of a live algorithm is that it should participate in a performance just as a human might, making apt and creative contributions to the musical dimensions of sound, time and structure.
The network brings together performers, composers and scientists in the areas of cognition, artificial intelligence and computing. There are currently over 20 members, and the network should expand during its initial funding period 2005-7. There will be five 2-day meetings during that time. The group is headed up by Dr Tim Blackwell (Dept of Computing, Goldsmiths) and Dr Michael Young (Dept of Music, Goldsmiths).