Improvising with computers: a personal survey (1989–2001)

Jordà Puig, Sergi

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jnmr.31.1.1.8105

Improvising with computers: a personal survey (1989–2001)

Citació

Jordà S. Improvising with computers: a personal survey (1989–2001). J New Music Res. 2002;31(1):1-10. DOI: 10.1076/jnmr.31.1.1.8105

Resum

This paper exposes some topics and questions about music improvisation using computers that the author has considered during more than a decade of experience as a performer, composer, software designer and educator. After a quick review of several of his previous interactive music systems, some of those issues are then confronted in FMOL, a program initially designed as a tool for on-line collaborative composition that has been used by hundreds of on-line composers, and which is also being employed by the author in free-form audiovisual improvisation concerts.