PhD in Music, University of Edinburgh (awarded in 1995)
MSc in Music Technology, University of York (awarded in 1992)
Previous Appointments (last 3 only):
Edgar Varèse Visiting Professor of Computer Music Electronic Music Studios, Institute of Communications Research, Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Berlin, Germany Winter Semester of 2006/2007
Research Scientist SONY Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France 1998 – 2003
Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science American University of Paris, Paris, France 2002 – 2003
Roles on external bodies Editorial Boards:
Regional Editor for Latin America: Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press, UK
Member of the Editorial Board: Leonardo Music Journal, The MIT Press, USA
Member of the Editorial Board: Contemporary Music Review, Routledge, UK
Member of the Editorial Review Board: Leonardo Transactions, The MIT Press, USA
Teaching interests
Music Composition
Computer Music
Electroacoustic Music
Artificial Intelligence
Evolutionary Computing / Artificial Life
Curriculum Development at UoP
Development of the MSc/MRes in Computing programme.
Development of the MSc/MRes in Computer Applications programme.
Development of the MSc/MRes in Interactive Intelligent Systems programme.
Development of the MRes in Computer Music programme.
Development of the AINT503: Interactive Intelligent Systems Workshop module (Postgraduate).
Development of the MARE502: Advanced Topics in Computer Music Research module (Postgraduate).
Staff serving as external examiners
Examiner for the MA/MSc in Music Technology, Dept of Music & Dept of Electronics, University of York (2007 – 2009)
External Examiner for the BMus in Music with Computer Sound Design, Dept of Music and Sound Recording, University of Surrey (2007 – 2010)
External Examiner for the BMus Honours (Tonmeister), Dept of Music and Sound Recordings, University of Surrey (2007 – 2010)
External Examiner for the MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Exeter (2006 –2010)
External Examiner for the MSc Music Information Technology, City University (2006 – 2009)
External examiners for PhD awards at:
Birmingham Conservatoire (2009)
University of the West of England (2008)
University of East Anglia (2008)
Edinburgh Napier University (2008)
University College, London (2007)
Goldsmiths College (2007)
Queen Mary University of London (2007)
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2004)
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2002)
University of Coruña, Spain (2001)
Research interests
Composition (including algorithmic and computer-aided)
Electroacoustic Music Composition
Sound Synthesis
New Musical Interfaces
Expressive Music Performance (by machines)
Brain-Computer Music Interface
Evolutionary Computer Music
Music Neurotechnology
Unconventional Computation (for music technology)
Artificial Intelligence and Music
Other research
Patents
Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Morphological categories for voice synthesis”, Europe: EP 1 160 764 A1, Publication 05/12/2001; Japan: P2002-23775A, Publication 04/06/2001.
Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Expressivity of Voice Synthesis”, Europe: EP 1 160 766 A1, Publication: 05/12/2001, USA: US 2002/0026315 A1, Publication 28/02/2002.
Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Vocal sounds granular synthesis by means of cellular automaton”, Europe: EP 1 160 765 A1, Publication 05/12/2001; Japan: P2002-6873A, Publication 04/06/2001.
Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Synthesis of Ultra-Linguistic Utterances”, USA: US 22002/0029145 A1, Publication 07/03/2002.
Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Sound characterisation and/or identification based on prosodic listening”, Europe: EP 1 246 164 A1, Publication 02/10/2002; PCT International: WO 02/070744 A2, Publication 10/10/2002.
Creative practice & artistic projects
Please refer to my personal website for my creative practices: PERSONAL WEB SITE
Publications Please refer to my personal website for my publications: PERSONAL WEB SITE
I have published over 120 papers within the last 10 years.
Only a selection of recent peer-reviewed publications are cited below:
Book:
Miranda, E. R. and
Wanderley, M. M. (2006). New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and
Interaction Beyond the Keyboard. Middeleton (WI): A-R Editions. 295 pp + CD-ROM.
Edited Books:
Miranda, E. R. (2010). A-Life for Music: Music and
Computer Models of Living Systems. Middleton (WI): A-R Editions. Includes a music CD.
Miranda, E. R. and Biles, J. A. (2007). Evolutionary Computer
Music. London (UK):
Springer. Includes a music CD.
Edited Journal Issues:
Miranda, E. R. (Issue Editor) (2009). Aesthetic Decisions in
Computer-Aided Composition. Issue of Contemporary
Music Review 28(2).
Miranda, E. R. and Overy K. (Issue Editors) (2009). Exploring Music Through Neuroscience. Issue of Contemporary Music Review 28(4).
Book Chapters:
Durrant, S. and Miranda E.
R. (2010). "Neuroscience of Music: Progress, Challenges and
Caveats". In T. Klouche (Ed.), Mathematical and Computational
Musicology. Heidelberg:
Springer.
Miranda, E. R. (2008)
“Digital Sound Synthesis for Multimedia Audio”. In Wiley
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, B. Wah (Ed.), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley
& Sons.
Journal Papers:
Anders, T. and Miranda, E. R. (2010). “A Survey of
Constraint Programming Systems for Modelling Music Theories and Composition”, ACM
Computing Surveys XX(X), Article X.
Miranda, E. R., Kirke, A.
and Zhang, Q. (2010). “Artificial Evolution of Expressive Performance of Music:
An Imitative Multi-Agent Systems Approach”, Computer Music Journal 34(1):xx-xx.
Anders, T. and Miranda, E.
R. (2010). “Constraint Application with Higher-Order Programming for Modeling
Music Theories”, Computer Music Journal 34(2):xx-xx.
Kirke, A. and Miranda, E.
R. (2010). “A Survey of Computer Systems for Expressive Music Performance”, ACM
Computing Surveys
42(1), Article 3.
Miranda, E. R., Bull, L.,
Gueguen, F. and Uroukov, I. S. (2009). "Computer Music Meets
Unconventional Computing: Towards Sound Synthesis with In Vitro Neural
Networks", Computer Music Journal 33(1):09-18.
Miranda, E. R. and
Matthias, J. (2009). "Music Neurotechnology for Sound Synthesis", Leonardo42(5):439-442.
Durrant, D., Hardoon, D.
R., Brechmann, A., Shawe-Taylor, J., Miranda, E. R. and Scheich, H. (2009).
“GLM and SVM analyses of neural response to tonal and atonal stimuli: new
techniques and a comparison”, Connection Science 21(2-3):161-175.
Miranda, E. R. (2008).
"Emergent Songs by Social Robots", Journal of Experimental and
Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 20(4):319-334.
Miranda, E R. (2006).
“Brain-computer music interface for composition and performance”, International
Journal on Disability and Human Development 5(2):119-125.
Miranda, E. R. (2005). “Artificial Phonology:
On Synthesising Disenbodied Human Voice for Composing Music with Surreal
Languages”, Leonardo Music Journal
15:8-16.
Miranda, E. R. and Brouse,
A. (2005). “On Interfacing the Brain Directly with Musical Systems”, Leonardo 38(4):331-336.
Miranda, E. R.and Valsamakis, N. (2005). “Iterative
Sound Synthesis using Cross-Coupled Digital Oscillators”, Digital
Creativity
16(2):79-92.
Conferences organised
Music,
Science and the Brain,
Plymouth, UK (2008). [co-organiser]
Music-AL
Workshop, Workshop of
Music and Artificial Life part of European Conference on Artificial Life
(ECAL), Lisbon, Portugal (2007).
6th
European Conference on Artificial Life / 1st Workshopon Artificial Life Models forMusical
Applications, Prague,
Czech Republic (2001). [co-organiser]
XV Annual
Congress of the Brazilian Computer Science Society / II Brazilian Symposium on
Computer Music, Canela,
Brazil (1995).
World
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education / Artificial Intelligence in
Music Education Workshop,
Edinburgh, UK (1993). [co-organiser]
Conference Programme Committees (last 5 years only):
2010:
Member of
the Programme Committee of EvoMUSART 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.
2009:
Paper
Reviewer for the 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for
Musical Expression (NIME 2009), Pittsburgh, USA.
Paper Reviewer for
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2009), Montreal, Canada.
Member of the
Scientific Programme Committee of the 6th Sound and Music Computing
Conference (SMC’09), Porto, Portugal.
Member of
the Technical Programme Committee of the 7th Audio Engineering
Conference of AES-Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Member of
the Programme Committee of the 4th Australian Conference on
Artificial Life (ACAL’09), Melbourne, Australia.
Member of
the Programme Committee of ACM Creativity & Cognition 2009, Berkeley, USA.
Member of the Programme Committee of 12th
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM 2009), Recife, Brazil.
2008:
Member of
the Programme Committee of XVIII Congress
of ANPPOM (National Association for Research and Post-Graduation in Music),
Salvador, Brazil.
Paper
Reviewer for the 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for
Musical Expression (NIME 2008), Genova, Italy.
Member of
the Programme Committee of AES-Brazil 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Member of the
Scientific Programme Committee of the 5th Sound and Music Computing
Conference (SMC’08), Berlin, Germany.
Paper Reviewer for
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2008), Belfast, UK.
2007:
Chair and
Member of the Programme Committee of Music, Brain& Cognition Workshop, part of Neural Information
Processing Systems Conferences (NIPS 07), Whistler, Canada.
Chair and
Member of the Programme Committee of Music-AL Workshop, Workshop of Music and
Artificial Life part of ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.
Member of
the Programme Committee of European Conference on Artificial Life 2007 (ECAL
2007), Lisbon, Portugal.
Paper Reviewer for PureData Convention 07, Montreal, Canada.
Member of
the Programme Committee of International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence
and Music, 20th International Joint Conference of Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI), Hyderabad, India.
Member of
the Programme Committee of 7th International Conference on New
Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2007), New York, USA.
Member of
the Programme Committee of AES-Brazil 2007, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Member of
the Programme Committee of XI Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Sao Paulo,
Brazil.
Member of the Programme
Committee of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence
(ICAT 2007), Esbjerg, Denmark.
Member of the
Scientific Programme Committee of the 4th Sound and Music Computing
Conference, Lefkada, Greece.
Paper Reviewer for
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2007), Copenhagen, Denmark.
2006:
Member of the Program Committee of 7th
International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2006, Victoria,
Canada.
Member of the Program Committee of the
Special Track on AI in Music and Art of the 19th International FLAIRS
Conference, Melbourne Beach, USA.
Member of the Technical Programme
Committee of the 4th Audio Engineering Society – Brazil Conference,
Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Member of the Programme Committee of the
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2006), New Orleans, USA.
Member of the Programme Committee of 6th
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2006),
Paris, France.
Member of the Programme Committee of the
3rd Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2006), Marseille,
France.
Member of the Programme Committee of XVI Congress of ANPPOM (National Association for
Research and Post-Graduation in Music), Brasilia, Brazil.
2005:
Member of the international programme committee for
Generative Arts Practice, Sydney. Australia.
Member of
the papers review panel of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME05),
Vancouver, Canada.
Member of
the papers review panel of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2005),
Barcelona, Spain.
Member of
the papers review panel of 6th International Symposium on Information
Retrieval (ISMIR 05), Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Member of
the papers review panel of the XV Congresso da Associação Nacional de Pesquisa
e Pós-Graduacao em Música (ANPPOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Member the
paper’s committee of the Annual Congress of the Brazilian Computing Society / X
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Poços de Caldas, Brazil.
2004:
Member of
the programme committee of EvoMusart 2005, 3rd European Workshop on
Evolutionary Music and Art, Lauzanne, Switzerland.
Member of
the papers review panel of the Special Track on AI in Music and Art of the 18th
International FLAIRS Conference, Melbourne Beach, USA.
Member of
the programme committee of the International Computer Music Conference
(ICMC2004), Miami, USA.
Member of
the programme committee of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence, São Luiz, Brazil.
