Profiles
Dr Edward Braund
Deputy Head of School
School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Biography
Biography
Associate Professor of Computing
I am an Associate Professor of Computing and an Automation Fellow with the South West Creative Technology Network. I received my PhD from Plymouth in Unconventional Computing for Music with a focus on using P. polycephalum as a biological computing substrate. My current research looks to the information processing abilities of chemical, biological, and physical systems to develop new types of processors, sensors, and actuators.
A core focus of this work is to create prototypes that are fit for deployment outside of the laboratory and in the real world. Recent developments on this front include a method for producing biological memristors, approaches to implementing logic gates on biological substrates, an interactive bio-processor for musical improvisation, and a range of P. polycephalum sensors. Please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss your options if you're interested in studying towards a postgraduate research degree within the realms of computing for music and audio.
Research
Research
Research interests
Unconventional Computing
Publications
Publications
Venkatesh, S, Braund, E. & Miranda, E.R. (2022) SSVEP-based Brain-computer Interface for Music using a Low-density EEG System, Journal of Assistive Technology.
Braund, E. Venkatesh, S. & Miranda, E.R., (2019). PhyBox: A Programmable Interface for Physarum polycephalum-based Memristors. International Journal of Unconventional Computing.
Miranda, E.R., Braund, E. & Venkatesh, S., (2018). Composing with Biomemristors: Is Biocomputing the New Technology of Computer Music? Computer Music Journal, 42(3), pp.28-46.
Miranda, E.R. & Braund, E., (2017). A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold. Journal of visualized experiments: JoVE , (129).
Braund, E. & Miranda, E. R., (2017). On Building Practical Biocomputers for Real-World Applications: Receptacles for Culturing Slime Mould Memristors and Component Standardisation. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 14(1), pp.151-162.
Miranda, E. R, & Braund, E., (2017) Interactive Musical Biocomputer: An Unconventional to Research in Unconventional Computing. Symmetry: Culture and Science, 28, pp.7-20.
Braund, E., Miranda, E.R., and Venkatesh, S., (2022). Composing Music with Bio-Technology: An Intelligent Algorithmic Composition System Using Physarum polycephalum-based Memristors. In Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy (pp.535{555). World Scientfic.
Braund, E., Miranda, E.R., and Venkatesh, S., (2021). On Growing Computers from Living Biological Cells. In Handbook of Arti cial Intelligence for Music (pp. 933-961). Springer, Cham.
Braund, E., Venkatesh, S., & Miranda, E. R., (2020). A Nonlinear Approach to Generate Creative Data using Physarum polycephalum-based Memristors. In Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture. River Publishers.
Miranda, E.R. & Braund, E., (2017). Experiments in Musical Biocomputing: Towards New Kinds of Processors for Audio and Music. In Advances in Unconventional Computing, pp.739-761. Springer International Publishing.
Braund, E. & Miranda, E.R., (2017). An Approach to Building Musical Bioprocessors with Physarum polycephalum Memristors. In Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music, pp.219-244. Springer International Publishing.
Miranda, E.R., Kirke, A., Braund, E. & Antoine, A., (2017). On Unconventional Computing for Sound and Music. In Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music, pp. 23-61. Springer International Publishing.
Braund, E., Sparrow, R. & Miranda, E., (2016). Physarum-based Memristors for Computer Music. In Advances in Physarum Machines, pp.755-775. Springer International Publishing.
Braund, E. & Miranda, E., (2015). Music with Unconventional Computing: Towards a Step Sequencer from Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music and Art, pp.15-26. Springer, Cham.
Braund, E. & Miranda, E.R., (2015). BioComputer Music: Generating Musical Responses with Physarum polycephalum-based Memristors. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, pp.405-419. Springer International Publishing.
Braund, E. & Miranda, E.R., (2015). Music with Unconventional Computing: Granular Synthesis with the Biological Computing Substrate Physarum polycephalum. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, pp.271-282. Springer International Publishing.
Braund, E. & Miranda, E., (2014). Music with Unconventional Computing: a System for Physarum polycephalum Sound Synthesis. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science: International Symposium on Computer Music Modelling and Retrieval, pp.175-189. Springer, Cham.
Back to Music performance, Art's Council Funded project, Plymouth, UK, Dec 2020.
BioComputer Rhythms performance, Beyond Festival 2019, Heilbronn, Germany, 2019.
Biocomputer Music performance, Future Design Symposium, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2018.
Interactive Musical BioComputer installation with BBC Earth at EG10, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, USA, 2016.
BioComputer Rhythms performance, Contemporary Music Festival, Plymouth, UK, 2016.
BioComputer Music performance, Symmetry Festival, Vienna, Austria, 2016.
BioComputer Music performance, Contemporary Music Festival, Plymouth, UK, 2015.
The Creeping Garden Documentary, Fantasia Film Festival, 2014.
Personal
Personal
Conferences organised
The 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) Music, Mind, and Embodiment took place in Plymouth, UK on 16-19 June 2015.