Interactive Composition and Computational Neuroscience Models

Presenter: Jônatas Manzolli, head of NICS/UNICAMP and full professor at IA/UNICAMP

This talk explores the convergence between concepts developed around contemporary music and formulations that emerged in our research based on models from computational neuroscience. We start by pointing out that musical composition evolved from the use of symbolic notation to the writing of the internal organization of sound. This may be observed in expanded instrumental techniques and in more recent strategies using new interfaces for musical expression. The possibility of operating on the dynamics of the internal organization of sound material in real time adds new dimensions to musical information, and thus introduces new possibilities in the application of computational models as a support for musical analysis and creation. In tandem with these ideas, we will present concepts expressed in the paper “Computational Modeling of Mind and Music” (Vershure & Manzolli, 2013) and a set of system-compositions that we developed recently.

(video presentation in portuguese)

When: August 7th, 2014

Where: CCSL Auditorium, IME/USP