Nick Collins
Went to see Nick Collins speak at Plymouth today about his PHD research towards Autonomous Musical Agents and Machine Listening Technology for Concert use. I was pleasantly surprised when he almost immediately started playing breakbeats at us.Nick is the creator of BBcut, which was later adapted into LiveCut, a very handy squarepusher emulator. His latest version of this, BBCut2 provides event analysis of live audio streams, inferring beat structure and creates a database of events with which the track is processed. Mmm, glitchy.
From what he showed us BBCut looks to be a extrememely effective tool, and can be used with Supercollider, so I'll be downloading that this evening.
Nick has also been woking on systems for machine listening that analyse live audio streams, and track beats, and can analyse notes and their features such as pitch, attack and timbre. He showed en excellent AV clip that had been processed in this way, and was being replayed - in a Tom Jenkinon stylee.
Clever....
Heres his website
He's also a member of TOPLAP who do life coding as audio performance Their WIKI is here and also Klipp av, Well cool.
posted by Hannah Drayson @ 4:46 PM
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