Profiles
Professor Eduardo Miranda
School of Humanities and Performing Arts (Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
Role
I am Professor in Computer Music and head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).
I am an experienced researcher and PhD supervisor (Director of Studies).
I have supervised 12 doctoral students to successful completion at Plymouth University within the last 10 years.
Should you wish to join ICCMR to study for a post-graduate degree under my supervision, please do not hesitate to contact the Graduate School for admissions information:
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/student-life/your-studies/the-graduate-school
Also, I have considerable experience with post-graduate external examinations, with 32 PhD theses examined worldwide within the last 10 years. Should you be interested in appointing me to conduct an examination at your institution, please do not hesitate to contacting me to check availability.
My academic duties include:
- Director of Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival
- Member of Peninsula Arts' steering committee for music
- Programme Manager of Res.M Computer Music
- Member of the steering committee of the Centre for High Performance Computing
- School research co-ordinator for music
Qualifications
Other Appointments (last 4 only):
Visiting Professor
Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI)
University of Bordeaux,
Bordeaux, France
2016
Visiting Research Fellow
Staatliches Institut fur Musikforschung (National Institute for Music Research)
Berlin, Germany
2010
Edgar Varèse Visiting Professor of Computer Music
Electronic Music Studios, Institute of Communications Research
Technische Universität Berlin (TUB)
Electronic Music Studios, Institute of Communications Research
Technische Universität Berlin (TUB)
Berlin, Germany
Winter Semester of 2006 - 2007
Research Scientist
SONY Computer Science Laboratory
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
Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science
American University of Paris
Paris, France
2002 – 2003
Roles on external bodies
Editor:
- Co-editor: Journal of Creative Music Systems, Huddersfield University Press. (http://jcms.org.uk/)
- Member of the Editorial Board: Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press.
- Member of the Editorial Board: Leonardo Music Journal, The MIT Press.
- Member of the Editorial Board: Contemporary Music Review, Routledge.
- Member of the Editorial Board: Leonardo Transactions, The MIT Press.
- Member of the Editorial Board: Journal of Sonic Studies.
- Member of the Editorial Board: International Journal of Unconventional Computing, Old City Publishing
- Member of the Reviewing Board: IEEE Multimedia.
- Member of the EditorialBoard: The Scientific World Journal.
- Member of the peer review college of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), Austria (appointed 2010 - )
- Member of the peer review college of the Danish Council for Strategic Research, Denmark (appointed 2010 - )
- Anonymous peer reviewing of numerous research grant proposals for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, EPSRC, AHRC, The Wellcome Trust, Racomedi
- Member of the Review Panel for Alban Scholarships, European Union (2006-2009)
Teaching interests
- Music Composition
- Computer Music / Music Technology
- Electroacoustic Music
- Artificial Intelligence
- Evolutionary Computing / Artificial Life
- Brain-Computer Interfacing / Assistive Technology
Staff serving as external examiners
- External Examiner for BA Music Computing, Goldsmiths College (2011 – 2016)
- External 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 31 PhD awards to date at:
- University of Huddersfield (2017)
- University of Kent (2017)
- University College Cork (2016)
- University of Reading (2015)
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2014)
- University of Adelaide, Australia (2014)
- University of Edinburgh (2013)
- University of Oslo , Norway (2012)
- University of Surrey (2010)
- University of Essex (2010, 2014)
- University of York (2010)
- Queen's University Belfast (2010)
- Open University (2010, 2013, 2015)
- Birmingham Conservatoire (2009, 2011)
- University of the West of England (2008)
- University of East Anglia (2008)
- Edinburgh Napier University (2008)
- University College, London (2007, 2010)
- Goldsmiths College (2007)
- Queen Mary University of London (2007, 2010, 2011, 2015)
- 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
1) 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.
2) 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.
3) 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.
4) Inventor: Eduardo Reck Miranda c/o Sony France S.A., “Synthesis of Ultra-Linguistic Utterances”, USA: US 22002/0029145 A1, Publication 07/03/2002.
5) 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.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Successful PhD completions:
2017, University of Plymouth, Aurelien Antoine. PhD Thesis: An Investigation into using Artificial Intelligence to Aid Composition of Timbre using Orchestral Instruments.
2016, University of Plymouth, Edward Braund. PhD Thesis: Unconventional Computing and Music: An Investigation into Harnessing Physarum polycephalum.
2016, University of Plymouth, Joel Eaton. PhD Thesis: Brain-Computer Music Interfacing: Designing Practical Systems for Creative Applications.
2014, University of Plymouth, Hans Holger Rutz. PhD Thesis: Tracing the Compositional Process.
2013, University of Plymouth, Nikolas Valsamakis. PhD Thesis: Non-Standard Sound Synthesis with Dynamic Models.
2013, University of Plymouth, Christian Dimpker. PhD Thesis: Extended Notation: The Depiction of the Unconventional.
2012, University of Plymouth, Noris Mohd Norowi. PhD Thesis: AnArtificial Intelligence Approach to Concatenative Sound Synthesis.
2012, University of Plymouth, Daniel Livingstone. PhD Thesis: Design Strategies for Adaptive Social Composition: Collaborative SoundEnvironments.
2012, University of Plymouth, Joao Martins. PhD Thesis: Emergent Rhythmic Structures asCultural Phenomena Driven by Social Pressure in a Society of Artificial Agents.
2011, University of Plymouth, Alexis Kirke. PhD Thesis: Application of Intermediate Multi-Agent Systems to IntegratedAlgorithmic Composition and Expressive Performance of Music.
2010, University of Plymouth, Peter Beyls. PhD Thesis: Music as Emergent Complex Behaviour.
2010, University of Plymouth, Leandro Costalonga. PhD Thesis: Biomechanical Modelling of Musical Performance: A Case Study of theGuitar
2009, University of Plymouth, Marcelo Gimenes. PhD Thesis: An Approach to Machine Development of Musical Ontogeny.
2001, University of Glasgow, Alexander Duncan. PhD Thesis: EEG Pattern Classification for the Brain-Computer Musical Interface.
1999, University of Glasgow, Kenneth McAlpine. PhD Thesis: Application of Dynamical Systems to Music Composition.
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2018
'Composing with Biomemristors: Is Biocomputing the New Technology of Computer Music?'
Computer Music Journal
42,
(3)
28-46
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Unconsciously interactive Films in a cinema environment—a demonstrative case study'
Digital Creativity
1-17
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Personalised, Multi-modal, Affective State Detection for Hybrid Brain-Computer Music Interfacing'
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
1-1
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Unconsciously interactive Films in a cinema environment - a demonstrative case study'
Digital Creativity
29,
165-181
2018
'Using agent-based models to understand the role of individuals in the song evolution of humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae )'
Music & Science
1,
205920431875702-205920431875702
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Directed Motor-Auditory EEG Connectivity Is Modulated by Music Tempo'
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
11,
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Harnessing Slime Mould Communication for Musical Computing'
Interalia Magazine
Publisher Site
PEARL
2017
'Parametric Factors Affecting Concatenative Sound Synthesis'
Advanced Science Letters
23,
(6)
5496-5500
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Affective Calibration of Musical Feature Sets in an Emotionally Intelligent Music Composition System'
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
14,
(3)
1-13
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BODY MOVEMENT, SPACE, AND MOTION DATA: MUSIC AS AN EMERGENT MULTIMODAL CHOREOGRAPHY'
Human Technology
13,
(1)
58-81
Publisher Site
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Aiding Soundtrack Composer Creativity through Automated Film Script-profiled Algorithmic Composition'
Journal of Creative Music Systems
1,
(2)
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'INTERACTIVE MUSICAL BIOCOMPUTER: AN UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH TO RESEARCH IN UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTING'
Symmetry: Culture & Science
PEARL
2017
'A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold'
Journal of Visualized Experiments
(129)
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'On Building Practical Biocomputers for Real-World Applications: Receptacles for Culturing Slime Mould Memristors and Component Standardisation'
Journal of Bionic Engineering
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Affective brain–computer music interfacing'
Journal of Neural Engineering
13,
(4)
046022-046022
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'A Hybrid Computer Case Study for Unconventional Virtual Computing'
International Journal of Unconventional Computation
PEARL
2015
'Music-induced emotions can be predicted from a combination of brain activity and acoustic features'
Brain and Cognition
101,
1-11
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Wireless Interactive Sonification of Large Water Waves to Demonstrate the Facilities of a Large-Scale Research Wave Tank'
Computer Music Journal
39,
(3)
59-70
, DOI
2015
'Wireless Interactive Sonification of Large Water Waves to Demonstrate the Facilities of a Large-Scale Research Wave Tank'
Computer Music Journal
39,
(3)
59-70
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Investigating Perceived Emotional Correlates of Rhythmic Density in Algorithmic Music Composition'
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
12,
(3)
1-21
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Real-Time Hallucination Simulation and Sonification through User-Led Development of an iPad Augmented Reality Performance'
Leonardo
48,
(3)
235-242
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'The Space Between Us : Evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface'
Brain-Computer Interfaces
2,
(2-3)
103-116
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Automated identification of neural correlates of continuous variables'
Journal of Neuroscience Methods
242,
65-71
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Dynamic Time Warping for Music Conducting Gestures Evaluation'
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
17,
(2)
243-255
, DOI
2015
'A Multi-Agent Emotional Society Whose Melodies Represent its Emergent Social Hierarchy and Are Generated by Agent Communications'
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
18,
(2)
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Identifying the basis of auditory similarity in concatenative sound synthesis users: A study between musicians and non-musicians'
ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
10,
(23)
18039-18045
2014
'Histogram mapping synthesis: A cellular automata-based technique for flexible sound design'
Computer Music Journal
38,
(4)
38-52
, DOI
2014
'Investigating affect in algorithmic composition systems'
Psychology of Music
43,
(6)
831-854
, DOI
2014
'Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing: Musical structures for increasing transparency in emotional computation'
SIMULATION
90,
(5)
606-622
, DOI
PEARL
2014
'Harnessing the Intelligence of Physarum Polycephalum for Unconventional Computing-Aided Musical Composition'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTING
10,
(3)
251-268
2014
'Histogram Mapping Synthesis: A Cellular Automata-Based Technique for Flexible Sound Design'
COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL
38,
(4)
38-52
, DOI
2014
'Neural correlates of emotional responses to music: An EEG study'
Neuroscience Letters
573,
52 - 57-52 - 57
Publisher Site
, DOI
2014
'Towards Harmonic Extensions of Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing Further Musical Structures for Increasing Transparency in Emotional Computation'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTING
10,
(3)
199-217
PEARL
2014
'Unconventional Computation and Teaching: Proposal for MUSIC, a Tone-Based Scripting Language for Accessibility, Computation and Education'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTING
10,
(3)
237-249
PEARL
2013
'Cloud Chamber: A Performance with Real Time Two-Way Interaction Between Subatomic Particles and Violinist'
Leonardo
46,
(1)
2012
'Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing – Using Music for Natural Affective Computation and Increased Processing Transparency'
Neural, Parallel, and Scientific Computations
20,
227-240
2011
'Brain-Computer Music Interfacing (BCMI): From Basic Research to the Real World of Special Needs'
Music and Medicine
3,
(3)
134-140
Publisher Site
, DOI
2011
'Constraint Programming Systems for Modeling Music Theories and Composition'
ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
43,
(4)
, DOI
2011
'Constraint Programming Systems for Modeling Music Theories and Composition'
ACM Computing Surveys
43,
(4)
Publisher Site
, DOI
2011
'A Computational Model for Rule-Based Microtonal Music Theories and Composition'
Perspectives of New Music
2,
(48)
47-77
Publisher Site
2011
'Sounds Synthesis with Slime Mould of Physarum Polycephalum'
JOURNAL OF BIONIC ENGINEERING
8,
(2)
107-113
, DOI
2010
'Constraint Application with Higher-Order Programming for Modeling Music Theories'
COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL
34,
(2)
25-38
, DOI
2010
'Artificial Evolution of Expressive Performance of Music: An Imitative Multi-Agent Systems Approach'
COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL
34,
(1)
80-96
, DOI
2010
'Plymouth brain-computer music interfacing project: from EEG audio mixers to composition informed by cognitive neuroscience'
International Journal of Arts and Technology
3,
(2/3)
154-176
Publisher Site
, DOI
2010
'Organised Sound, Mental Imageries and the Future of Music Technology: a neuroscience outlook'
ORGANISED SOUND
15,
(1)
13-25
, DOI
2010
'Contextualizing eighteenth century Enlightenment through the lenses of contemporary science'
Phys Life Rev
7,
(1)
35-36
, DOI
2009
'GLM and SVM analyses of neural response to tonal and atonal stimuli: new techniques and a comparison (vol 21, pg 161, 2009)'
CONNECTION SCIENCE
21,
(4)
383-383
, DOI
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
, DOI
2009
'Computer Music Meets Unconventional Computing: Towards Sound Synthesis with In Vitro Neuronal Networks'
COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL
33,
(1)
9-18
, DOI
2009
'Preface: Aesthetic Decisions in Computer-Aided Composition'
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC REVIEW
28,
(2)
129-132
, DOI
2009
'Music Neurotechnology for Sound Synthesis: Sound Synthesis with Spiking Neuronal Networks'
LEONARDO
42,
(5)
439-442
, DOI
2009
'Interfacing Manual and Machine Composition'
Contemporary Music Journal
28,
(2)
133-147
Publisher Site
, DOI
2008
'Emergent songs by social robots'
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
20,
(4)
319-334
, DOI
2007
'Spectral Fuzzy Sets and Markov Streaming for Granular Synthesis of Sound'
Symmetry: Culture and Science
18,
(2/3)
223-241
Publisher Site
2006
'Brain-computer music interface for composition and performance'
International Journal on Disability and Human Development
5,
(2)
119-125
Publisher Site
2005
'Iterative sound synthesis by means of cross-coupled digital oscillators'
DIGITAL CREATIVITY
16,
(2)
90-98
, DOI
2005
'Interfacing the brain directly with musical systems: On developing systems for making music with brain signals'
LEONARDO
38,
(4)
331-336
, DOI
2005
'Artificial phonology: Disembodied humanoid voice for composing music with surreal languages'
LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL
15,
8-16
2004
'A new model of sensorimotor coupling in the development of speech'
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
89,
(2)
393-400
, DOI
2004
'At the crossroads of evolutionary computation and music: self-programming synthesizers, swarm orchestras and the origins of melody'
Evol Comput
12,
(2)
137-158
, DOI
2004
'On Generating EEG for Controlling Musical Systems'
Biomedizinische Technik / Biomedical Engineering
49,
(1)
75-76
Publisher Site
2003
'On Computational Models of the Evolution of Music: From the Origins of Musical Taste to the Emergence of Grammars'
Contemporary Music Review
22,
(3)
91-111
, DOI
2003
'On harnessing the electroencephalogram for the musical braincap'
COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL
27,
(2)
80-102
, DOI
2003
'On the evolution of music in a society of self-taught digital creatures'
DIGITAL CREATIVITY
14,
(1)
29-42
, DOI
2003
'On the music of emergent behavior: What can evolutionary computation bring to the musician?'
LEONARDO
36,
(1)
55-59
, DOI
2002
'Modelling the development of mirror neurons for auditory-motor integration'
JOURNAL OF NEW MUSIC RESEARCH
31,
(4)
367-375
, DOI
2002
'Generating Source Streams for Extralinguistic Utterances'
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
50,
(3)
165-172
Publisher Site
2002
'Emergent Sound Repertoires in Virtual Societies'
Computer Music Journal
26,
(2)
77-90
Publisher Site
, DOI
1998
'The role of speech synthesis in Requiem per una veu perduda'
Organised Sound
3,
(3)
235-240
, DOI
1998
'Music, Machines, Intelligence and the Brain'
Journal of Electroacoustic Music
31,
(4)
32-33
1994
'Music composition using cellular automata'
Languages of Design
2,
(2)
105-117
1994
'From symbols to sound: AI-based investigation of sound synthesis'
Contemporary Music Review
10,
(2)
211-232
, DOI
0
'i-Berlioz: Towards Interactive Computer-Aided Orchestration with Temporal Control'
International Journal of Music Science, Technology and Art
PEARL
Books
2012
Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance.
Springer
Miranda ER
2011
A-Life for Music: Music and Computer Models of Living Systems.
Middleton, WI, USA
A-R Editions
Computer Music and Digital Audio Series
24
Publisher Site
2007
Evolutionary Computer Music.
Springer Verlag
2006
New Digital Musical Instruments.
21
A-R Editions, Inc.
Computer Music and Digital Audio Series
2002
Computer Sound Design.
Focal Pr
2001
Composing Music with Computers.
Focal Pr
2000
Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence.
Routledge
1999
Musica y Nuevas Tecnologias: Perspectivas para el Siglo XXI.
Barcelona
L'Angelot
1998
Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician.
Focal Pr
Chapters
2018
'A Universal Biocomputing Model for Creative Applications: A Nonlinear Approach Using Physarum polycephalum-based Memristors'
in Adamatzky A
Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture
World Scientific
2018
'Artibiotics: An Artificial Biology Musical Experiment'
in Schmidt M
The Art of Antibiotics
Vienna
Biofaction KG
96-114
Publisher Site
PEARL
2018
'Music Neurotechnology: a natural progression'
in Emmerson S
The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching out with Technology
Oxford
Taylor & Francis
Publisher Site
PEARL
2018
'BCI for Music Making: Then, Now, and Next'
in Nam CS; Nijholt A; Lotte F
Brain–Computer Interfaces Handbook: Technological and Theoretical Advances
Florence, KY
CRC Press
Publisher Site
PEARL
2018
'On Mapping EEG Information into Music'
in Miranda E; Castet J
Guide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing
London
Springer-Verlag London
Publisher Site
PEARL
2017
'An Approach to Building Musical Bioprocessors with Physarum
polycephalum Memristors'
in Miranda ER
Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music
Springer International Publishing
Publisher Site
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Experiments in Sound and Music Quantum Computing'
in Miranda E
Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music
Springer International Publishing
Publisher Site
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'On Unconventional Computing for Sound and Music'
in Miranda E
Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music
Springer International Publishing
Publisher Site
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Experiments in musical biocomputing: towards new kinds of processors for audio and music'
in Adamatzky A
Advances in Unconventional Computing
Springer, Cham
739-761
Publisher Site
2017
'A Comparison of Fitness Functions in a Genetic Algorithm for
Acoustic–Articulatory Parameter Inversion of Vowels'
in Bosman PAN
New York, NY, USA
ACM
PEARL
2016
'Recomposing Beethoven with Music Neurotechnoly'
in Bresson J; Agon C; Assayag G
The OM Composer's Book.3
Paris
Delatour & IRCAM Georges Pompidou
173-192
PEARL
2016
'Physarum-Based Memristors for Computer Music'
Advances in Physarum Machines Sensing and Computing with Slime Mould
Springer
755-775
, DOI
2014
'Brain-Computer Music Interfacing: Interdisciplinary Research at the Crossroads of Music, Science and Biomedical Engineering'
in Castet J
London
Springer-Verlag London
Publisher Site
PEARL
2014
'Creative Music Neurotechnology with Symphony of Minds Listening'
in Miranda E; Castet J
Guide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing
New York
Springer
271-295
PEARL
2013
'Pulsed Melodic Processing – the Use of Melodies in Affective Computations for Increased Processing Transparency'
in Holland S; Mulholland A; Seago A
Music and Human-Computer Interaction
London
Springer
Publisher Site
2012
'On computer-aided composition, musical creativity and brain asymmetry'
The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process
215-231
2012
'On Computer-aided Composition, Musical Creativity and Brain Asymmetry'
The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process
Farnham, UK
Ashgate
52-58
Publisher Site
2012
'An Overview of Computer Systems for Expressive Music Performance'
in Kirke A; Miranda ER
Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance
Springer
1-48
Publisher Site
2012
'Artificial Evolution of Expressive Performance of Music: An Imitative Multi-Agent Systems Approach'
in Kirke A; Miranda ER
Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance
Springer
99-123
Publisher Site
2011
'Evolutionary Morphing for Music Composition'
in Miranda ER
A-Life for Music
A-R Editions, Inc.
Publisher Site
2011
'An Ontomemetic Approach to Musical Intelligence'
in Miranda ER
A-Life for Music
A-R Editions, Inc.
2011
'A Biophysically Constrained Multi-Agent Systems Approach to Algorithmic Composition with Expressive Performanc'
in Miranda ER
A-Life for Music
A-R Editions, Inc.
Publisher Site
2010
'Game of Life Music'
in Adamatzky A
Game of Life Cellular Automata
Springer-Verlag
489-501
2009
'Digital Sound Synthesis for Multimedia Audio'
in Wah BW
Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering
Hoboken, NJ
Wiley-Interscience
2008
'Cellular Automata Sound Synthesis: From
Histograms to Spectrograms'
in Adamatzky A
Automata-2008
Frome, UK
Luniver Pr
2007
'Cellular automata music: From sound synthesis to musical forms'
Evolutionary Computer Music
170-193
, DOI
2007
'Experiments in generative musical performance with a genetic algorithm'
Evolutionary Computer Music
100-116
, DOI
2006
'Putting some (artificial) life into models of
musical creativity'
in Deliège I; Wiggins GA
Musical Creativity
London
Psychology Pr
2006
'On Making Music with Artificial Life Models'
in Ascott R
Engineering Nature
Bristol
Intellect Ltd
2005
'Musique de la Vie Artificiel'
in Daubner E; Poissant L
Art et Biotechnologies
Montreal
Université de Saint-Etienne
2002
'Integrating Perception and Production in
a Neural Network Model'
in Bullinaria JA; Lowe W
Connectionist Models of Cognition and Perception
World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Conference Papers
2018
'Generating Orchestral Sequences with Timbral Descriptors'
Timbre 2018: Timbre Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Montreal, Canada
04/07/2018
07/11/2018
PEARL
2018
'Dervish Sound Dress; a development of a musical interface garment which explores wearable technology using sound and haptic feedback for performance and interaction'
Sound and Music Computing Conference
Limassol, Cyprus
04/07/2018
07/07/2018
Publisher Site
PEARL
2018
'Musical Acoustics, Timbre, and Computer–Aided Orchestration Challenges'
International Symposium on Musical Acoustics
Montreal, Canada
25/06/2017
29/06/2017
PEARL
2018
'i-Berlioz: Interactive Computer-Aided Orchestration with Temporal Control'
Della Ventura M
5th International Conference of New Musical Concepts
Treviso, Italy
17/03/2018
18/03/2018
Milan
ABEditore
45-60
PEARL
2017
'Computer Generated Orchestration: Towards Using Musical Timbre in Composition'
9th European Music Analysis Conference
Strasbourg
28/06/2017
01/07/2017
Université de Strasbourg
PEARL
2017
'Factors Influencing Vocal Pitch in Articulatory Speech Synthesis: A Study Using PRAAT'
Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2018)
Hamburg, Germany
31/08/2017
03/09/2017
PEARL
2017
'A Comparison of Fitness Functions in a Genetic Algorithm for Acoustic–Articulatory Parameter Inversion of Vowels'
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2017
Berlin, Germany
15/07/2017
19/07/2017
PEARL
2017
'A Knowledge-based, Data-driven Method for Action-sound Mapping'
NIME 2017 : New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Copenhagen
15/05/2017
19/05/2017
PEARL
2017
'Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis'
37-42
, DOI
2016
'Towards a Timbral Classification System for Musical Excerpts'
2nd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production
London
13/09/2016
PEARL
2016
'Frontiers: Expanding Musical Imagination With Audience Participation'
New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (NIME 2016)
Brisbrane, Australia
Publisher Site
PEARL
2016
'Adapting a Computational Multi Agent Model for Humpback Whale Song Research for use as a Tool for Algorithmic Composition'
Sound and Music Computing Conference
Hamburg, Germany
31/08/2016
03/09/2016
PEARL
2016
'Sonification of Dark Matter: Challenges and Opportunities'
Sound and Music Computing Conference
Hamburg, Germany
31/08/2016
03/09/2016
PEARL
2016
'An affective brain-computer music interface'
International Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Meeting - 2106
Pacific Grove, California, USA
2016
'Blyth – Eastbourne – Wembury: Sonification as a compositional tool in electroacoustic music'
2nd International Conference on New Musical Concepts
Treviso, Italy
05/03/2016
06/03/2016
PEARL
2016
'A User-Centric Algorithmic Composition System'
2nd International Conference on New Music Concepts
Treviso, Italy
PEARL
2016
'Analysis of mimed violin performance movements of neophytes patterns, periodicities, commonalities and individualities'
88-108
, DOI
2016
'Biocomputer music: Generating musical responses with Physarum polycephalum-based memristors'
405-419
, DOI
2016
'Music with unconventional computing: Granular synthesis with the biological computing substrate physarum polycephalum'
271-280
, DOI
2016
'The hybrid brain computer music interface - Integrating brainwave detection methods for extended control in musical performance systems'
132-145
, DOI
2015
'Music and Dementia: Two Case-studies'
NA NA
CMMR 2015
Plymouth
2015
'Identifying music-induced emotions from EEG for use in brain-computer music interfacing'
923-929
2015
'Music with unconventional computing: Towards a step sequencer from plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum'
15-26
, DOI
2015
'Towards an evolutionary computational approach to articulatory vocal synthesis with PRAAT'
62-70
, DOI
2015
'Towards Human-Computer Music Interaction: Evaluation of an Affectively-Driven Music Generator via Galvanic Skin Response Measures'
87-92
2014
'Q-MUSE: A QUANTUM COMPUTER MUSIC SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR A PERFORMANCE FOR ORCHESTRA, ELECTRONICS AND LIVE INTERNET-CONNECTED PHOTONIC QUANTUM COMPUTER'
9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology – CIM14
Berlin, Germany
PEARL
2014
'Affective jukebox: A confirmatory study of EEG emotional correlates in response to musical stimuli'
580-585
2014
'Effects of different bow stroke styles on body movements of a viola player: An exploratory study'
1368-1374
2014
'Evaluating perceptual separation in a pilot system for affective composition'
905-911
2014
'Gesture in performance with traditional musical instruments and electronics: Use of embodied music cognition and multimodal motion capture to design gestural mapping strategies'
100-105
, DOI
2014
'Music with unconventional computing: A system for physarum polycephalum sound synthesis'
175-189
, DOI
2013
'Emotional and multi-agent systems in computer-aided writing and poetry'
17-22
2013
'Harnessing the intelligence of physarum polycephalum for unconventional computing-aided musical composition'
153-169
2013
'Towards harmonic extensions of pulsed melodic affective processing - Further musical structures for increasing transparency in emotional computation'
87-111
2013
'Unconventional computation and teaching - Proposal for MUSIC, a tone-based scripting language for accessibility, computation and teaching'
50-67
2013
'Learning to Make Feelings: Expressive Performance as a Part of a Machine Learning Tool for Sound-Based Emotion Control'
490-499
2012
'Emergent Construction of Melodic Pitch and Hierarchy Through Agents Communicating Emotion Without Melodic Intelligence'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011)
Huddersfield, UK
2012
'Application of Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing to Stock Market Algorithmic Trading and Analysis'
9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR2010)
London, UK
2012
'New Approaches in Brain-Computer Music Interfacing: Mapping EEG for Real-Time Musical Control'
Music, Music and Invention Workshop
College of New Jersey, Ewing NJ (USA)
2011
'Application of Multi-Agent Whale Modelling to an Interactive Saxophone and Whale Duet'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011)
Huddersfield, UK
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2011
'Cellular Automata Dynamic Control for Sound Design with Histogram Mapping Synthesis and the Multitype Voter Model'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011)
Huddersfield, UK
2011
'Cloud Chamber: A Performance Involving Real Time Two-way Interaction Between Subatomic Radioactive Particles and Violinist'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011)
Huddersfield, UK
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2011
'Combining EEG Frontal Asymmetry Studies with Affective Algorithmic Composition and Expressive Performance Model'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011)
Huddersfield, UK
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2011
'Developing Methods for Computer Programming by Musical Performance and Composition'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011)
Huddersfield, UK
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2011
'Prioritizing Audio Features Selection Using Analysis Hierarchy Process as a Mean to Extend User Control in Concatenative Sound Synthesis'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011)
Huddersfield, UK
2011
'Reproducibility and Random Access in Sound Synthesis'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011)
Huddersfield, UK
2011
'Towards using Expressive Performance Algorithms for Typist Emotion Detection'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011)
Huddersfield, UK
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2011
'Order dependent feature selection in Concatenative Sound Synthesis using Analytical Hierarchy Process'
, DOI
2011
'Neurogranular synthesis: Granular synthesis controlled by a pulse-coupled network of spiking neurons'
354-363
, DOI
2010
'Cellular automata sound synthesis with an extended version of the multitype voter model'
19-24
2010
'Musical interaction patterns: Communicating Computer Music knowledge in a multidisciplinary project'
199-206
, DOI
2010
'On the Traceability of the Compositional Process'
Sound and Music Computing (SMC 2010)
Barcelona, Spain
01/01/2010
2010
'Algorithmic Sound Composition using Coupled Cellular Automata'
3rd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference - (CHAO S2010)
Chania, Greece
01/01/2010
2010
'Evolutionary Sound Synthesis: Rendering Spectrograms from Cellular Automata Histograms'
381-390
2009
'A Computational Model that Generalises Schoenberg's Guidelines for Favourable Chord Progressions'
6th Sound and Music Computing Conference
Porto, Portugal
01/01/2009
2008
'Multi-Agent Simulation for Generating Expressive Music Performance'
World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS2008)
Fairfax, USA
01/01/2008
2008
'Activation in auditory cortex correlates with the distance of musical key change'
6th Forum of the Foundation of European Neuroscience Societies
Geneva, Switzerland
01/01/2008
2008
'Hearing Thinking'
Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design
Napoli, Italy
01/01/2008
2008
'Mix-It-Yourself with a Brain-Computer Music Interface'
7th ICDVRAT with ArtAbilitation
Maia/Porto, Portugal
01/01/2008
2008
'Towards Brain-Computer Music Interfaces: Progress and Challenges'
34-38
2008
'Breeding Rhythms with Artificial Life'
5th Sound and Music Computing Conference
Berlin, Germany
01/01/2008
2008
'An A-Life Approach to Machine Learning of Musical Worldviews for Improvisation Systems'
5th Sound and Music Computing Conference
Berlin, Germany
01/01/2008
2008
'An Instance Based Model for Generating Expressive Performance During Composition'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC2008)
Belfast, UK
01/01/2008
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2008
'Autonomous Development of Singing-Like Intonations by Interacting Babbling Robots'
International Computer Music Conference - ICMC 2008
Belfast, UK
01/01/2008
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2008
'COMPER: Towards a Model for Generating Compositions from Expressive Music Performances'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC 2008)
Belfast, UK
01/01/2008
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2008
'Constraint-Based Composition in Realtime'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC 2008)
Belfast, UK
01/01/2008
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2008
'Equipping Artificial Guitar Players with Biomechanical Constraints: A Case Study of Precision and Speed'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC2008)
Belfast, UK
01/01/2008
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2008
'Higher-Order Constraint Applications for Music Constraint Programming'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC 2008)
Belfast, UK
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2008
'Spectral synthesis and control with cellular automata'
2007
'Non-Formal Rehabilitation via Immersive Interactive Music Environments'
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2007)
Copenhagen, Denmark
01/01/2007
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2007
'Octopus Music API: Modellling Musical Performance'
Simposio Brasileiro de Computacao Musical - SBCM 2007
Sao Paulo
01/01/2007
Brazilian Computer Society
Publisher Site
2007
'Musicianship for Robots with Style'
New Interfaces for Musical Expression - (NIME 2007)
New York, USA
01/01/2007
2007
'Commonalities between F2 distribution and musical timbre'
Language and Music as Cognitive Systems Conference
Cambridge, UK
11/05/2007
13/05/2007
2007
'Emergent Musical Environments: An Artificial Life Approach'
ECAL 2007 Workshop on Music and Artificial Life (MusicAL 2007)
Lisbon, Portugal
01/01/2007
2007
'Emergent rhythmic phrases in an A-Life environment'
ECAL 2007 Workshop on Music and Artificial Life - MusicAL 2007
Lisbon, Portugal
01/01/2007
2007
'Evaluating Mappings for Cellular Automata Music'
ECAL 2007 Workshop on Music and Artificial Life - MusicAL 2007
Lisbon, Portugal
01/01/2007
2007
'Neural Correlates of Tonality in Music'
Music, Brain & Cognition Workshop - NIPS Conference
Whistler, Canada
01/01/2007
2007
'Artabilitation ICMC panel paper Denmark 2007: Non-formal rehabilitation via immersive interactive music environments'
77-80
2006
'Evolving musical performance profiles using genetic algorithms with structural fitness'
1833-1839
2006
'Music knowledge analysis: Towards an efficient representation for composition'
331-341
2006
'Brain-Computer Interface for Generative Music'
International Conference Series on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies (ICDVRAT 2006)
Esbjerg, Denmark
01/01/2006
2006
'An Idiomatic Plucked String Player'
International FLAIRS Conference - Special Track: Artificial Intelligence in Music and Art
Miami, USA
01/01/2006
Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society
Publisher Site
2006
'A Connectionist Architecture for the Evolution of Rhythms'
EvoWorkshops 2006
Budapest, Hungary
Berlin, Germany
Springer
Publisher Site
2006
'A connectionist architecture for the evolution of rhythms'
696-706
2006
'The development of musical styles in a society of software agents'
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
Bologna, Italy
01/01/2006
2006
'Towards an evolution model of expressive music performance'
1189-1194
2006
'Real-time granular synthesis with spiking neurons'
Conscious Reframed - 8th International Conference
Plymouth, UK
01/01/2006
2006
'Towards an Interaction and Evolution Model of Expressive Music Performance'
Sixth International conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA2006)
Jinan, China
01/01/2006
2005
'Orb3 Adaptive Interface Design for Real time Sound Synthesis & Diffusion within Socially Mediated Spaces'
International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME'05)
Vancouver, Canada
01/01/2005
2005
'EV Ontology: Multilevel Knowledge Representation and Programming'
10th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
01/01/2005
Brazilian Computer Society
Publisher Site
2005
'Societies of rhythmic agents: A neural representation of rhythm'
10th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW2005)
Bilzen, Belgium
01/01/2005
2005
'Towards a Model for Embodied Emotions'
Artificial intelligence, 2005. epia 2005. portuguese conference on
54-63
2005
'Composition As Game Strategy: Making Music by Playing Board Games Against Evolved Artificial Neural Networks'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC 2005)
Barcelona, Spain
01/01/2005
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2005
'ORB3 - Musical Robots within an Adaptive Social Composition System'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC 2005)
Barcelona, Spain
01/01/2005
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2005
'Plymouth Brain-Computer Music Interface Project: Intelligent Assistive Technology for Music-Making'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC 2005)
Barcelona, Spain
01/01/2005
2005
'Steering Generative Rules with the EEG: An Approach to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing'
Sound and Music Computing 05
Salerno, Italy
01/01/2005
Sound and Music Computing Network
Publisher Site
2005
'Toward Direct-Computer Musical Interfaces'
International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME05)
Vancouver, Canada
01/01/2005
2005
'Granular sampling using a pulse-coupled network of spiking neurons'
539-544
2005
'Evolving emotional behaviour for expressive performance of music'
497-497
2005
'A Memetic Approach to the Evolution of Rhythms in a Society of Software Agents'
10th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music - SBCM 2005
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
01/01/2005
Brazilian Computer Society
Publisher Site
2005
'A framework for comparison of process in algorithmic music systems'
Generative Arts Practice - A Creativity & Cognitinion Symposium
Sydney, Australia
01/01/2005
2005
'Artificial Singing with a Webcam Mouth-Controller'
Sound and Music Computing 2005
Salerno, Italy
01/01/2005
Publisher Site
2005
'On the Learning Stages of an Intelligent Rhythmic Generator'
Sound and Music Computing 2005
Salerno, Italy
01/01/2005
2005
'Musical Composition by an Autonomous Robot: An Approach to AIBO Interaction'
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 2005
London, UK
01/01/2005
2005
'Extended waveform segment synthesis, a nonstandard synthesis model for microsound composition'
2005
'Granular synthesis of sounds through Markov Chains with Fuzzy control'
2004
'Composition for Ubiquitous Responsive Environments'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC 2004)
Miami, USA
01/01/2004
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2004
'Cellular Automata in MIDI based Computer Music'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC 2004)
Miami, USA
01/01/2004
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
2003
'A-Life and Musical Composition: A Brief Survey'
IX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music
Campinas, Brazil
01/01/2003
Brazilian Computer Society
Publisher Site
2002
'Sounds of Artificial Life'
173-177
2002
'Mimetic development of intonation'
107-118
2000
'The art of rendering sounds from emergent behaviour: Cellular automata granular synthesis'
350-355
, DOI
1997
'Who composed Entre l'Absurde et le Mystère?'
XVII Annual Congress of the Brazilian Computing Society / IV Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music
Brasilia, Brazil
Brazilian Computer Society
Publisher Site
1996
'Machine Learning and Musical Invention: A Case Study'
7th International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA)
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
01/01/1996
1996
'Computer-Assistance in Concept Formation and Musical Invention'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC 1996)
Hong Kong
01/01/1996
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
1993
'Music Representation: Between the Musician and the Computer'
Artificial Intelligence in Music Education Workshop / World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
Edinburgh, UK
01/01/1993
0
'An Instance Based Model for Generating Expressive Performance During Composition'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC2008)
Belfast, UK
01/01/2008
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
0
'COMPER: Towards a Model for Generating Compositions from Expressive Music Performances'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC2008)
Belfast, UK
01/01/2008
0
'Equipping Artificial Guitar Players with Biomechanical Constraints: A Case Study of Precision and Speed'
International Computer Music Conference - (ICMC2008)
Belfast
01/01/2008
International Computer Music Association
Publisher Site
0
'Towards Brain-Computer Music Interfaces: Progress and Challenges'
International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Bio-Medical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL2008)
Aalborg, Denmark
01/01/2008
0
'Octopus Music API: Modellling Musical Performance'
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music
Sao Paulo, Brazil
01/01/2007
0
'An Idiomatic Plucked String Player'
FLAIRS Conference - Special Track: Artificial Intelligence in Music and Art
Miami, USA
01/01/2006
0
'Evolving Musical Performance Profiles using Genetic Algorithms with Structural Fitness'
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006)
Seattle, USA
01/01/2006
0
'Music Knowledge Analysis: Towards an Efficient Representation for Composition'
11th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 05)
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
01/01/2006
Heidelberg, Germany
Springer
Publisher Site
0
'Artificial Singing with a Webcam Mouth-Controller'
Sound and Music Computing 2005
Salerno, Italy
01/01/2005
0
'Evolving Emotional Behaviour for Expressive Performance of Music'
Intelligent Virtual Agents 2005
Kos, Greece
01/01/2005
Heidelberg, Germany
Springer - LNCS 3661-0497
Publisher Site
0
'Towards a Model for Embodied Emotions'
Workshop on Affective Computing: Towards Affective Intelligent Systems (AC 2005)
Covilha, Portugal
01/01/2005
0
'Evolving Emotional Behaviour for Expressive Performance of Music'
Intelligent Virtual Agents 2005
Kos, Grece
Performances
20110211
20130629
Cloud Chamber.
[California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, USA] - [ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford-Appleton Labs, Didcot, UK] - [Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University, Plymouth UK[
Publisher Site
Other academic activities
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