Alexis Kirke

Teaching interests
BA Sound and Music Production

UoP Research group membership

Other research
Composer-in-residence, Plymouth Marine Institute 

Publications

Journal

Kirke, A. (1996). “A Short Term Memory forNeural Networks Which Allows Recognition and Reproduction of Complex Sequencesof Integers with the Minimum Number of Weights.” Neural Processing Letters,Vol. 3, pp. 49-54.

 Kirke, A., Miranda, E.R. (2007)."Capturing the Aesthetic: Radial Mappings for Cellular AutomataMusic". Journal of the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Vol. 21, pp. 15-23.

 Kirke, A. and Miranda, E. R. (in print)."A Survey of Computer Systems for Expressive Music  Performance." ACM Computing Surveys(Accepted)

 Miranda, E.R., Kirke, A. and Zhang, Q., (toappear). "An Imitative Multi-Agent System Approach to ExpressivePerformance of Music." Computer Music Journal (Accepted).

 Book

Kirke, A. 1997. “Learning and Co-operationin Mobile Multi-robot Systems.” PhD Thesis, University of Plymouth

 Kirke, A. and Miranda, E. R. (to appear).“Using a Biophysically-constrained Multi-agent System to combine ExpressivePerformance with Algorithmic Composition.” E. R. Miranda (Ed.) Music andArtificial Life. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions. (In Print)

 Kirke, A. and Miranda, E. R., (to appear)."Artificial Social Composition: A Multi-Agent System for Composing MusicPerformances by Emotional Communication", T. Klouche (Ed.) Mathematicaland Computational Musicology. Heidelberg: Springer.

 Miranda, E. R., Kirke, A. (to appear).“Game of Life Music”, A. Adamatsky (Ed.) Applications of Game of Life CellularAutomata. Frome, UK: Luniver Press.

 Conference

Kirke, A., Miranda, E.R. (2007)."Evaluating Mappings for Cellular Automata Music", Proceedings ofECAL 2007 Workshop on Music and Artificial Life (MusicAL 2007), Lisbon(Portugal).

 Kirke, A. and Miranda, E. R. (2008)."An Instance Based Model for Generating Expressive Performance DuringComposition", Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference -(ICMC2008), Belfast (UK).

 Kirke, A. and Miranda, E. R. (2008)."COMPER: Towards a Model for Generating Compositions from Expressive MusicPerformances", Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference -(ICMC2008), Belfast (UK).

 Kirke, A. and Miranda, E. R. (2009). "Artificial Social Composition: A Multi-Agent System for Composing MusicPerformances by Emotional Communication", Proceedings of InternationalConference on Music and Emotion- (ICME2009), Durham (UK).

Additional information
(Composer Bio) Alexis Kirke is a composer based in the South-West of England who works across multiple platforms including the large-scale multimedia and acoustic works, the creation of science-based algorithmic scores, soundtracks for silent film shows and the supply of tracks for production music libraries. He is composer-in-residence for the Plymouth Marine Institute - the UK leader in Marine research and work on sustainability, marine pollution and conservation. Alexis holds two PhDs, one in Arts and one in Technology. He has worked as a Project Manager and a Stock Market Analyst (where he developed some of the foundation concepts of the industry textbook ‘Optimal Trading Strategies’). He is a member of the University of Plymouth's Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, and has published articles on Algorithmic Composition and Performance. Alexis is a poet and critic who has written for publications such as Terrible Work, Oasis, Tremblestone (UK) and Transmog (US). He has also been invited to read at Glastonbury Festival, and was editor of the UK's first poetry webzine 'Brink'. 

Links
http://www.alexiskirke.com