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PROFESSOR EDUARDO RECK MIRANDA
The NewScientist article
"Cultured" robots make sweet music together said
Eduardo Miranda shuts the door of his study, leaving two "warbling"
robots to their own devices. He has programmed them to blurt out
sequences of random notes, and two weeks later, he returns to find that
the robots are still cooing in their eerily human voices, but they have
now "evolved" to sing a repertoire of 20 sounds together.
Miranda, a composer and computer scientist at the University of Plymouth
in the UK, hopes that such collaborations between singing robots will
one day help him to compose music that no human would ever come up with.
"The robots develop their own musical culture. There are no
pre-programmed musical rules."
Eduardo Reck Miranda, MSc(York), PhD(Edinburgh) is Professor in
Computer Music, Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research,
University of Plymouth, UK.
He is also Associate Member of the Creativity and Cognition Studios,
Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney,
Australia.
Eduardo served as a research scientist at SONY Computer Science
Laboratory in
Paris before moving to the University of Plymouth in 2003 to establish
the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR). His
research is aimed at understanding how and why people create, perform,
and listen to music.
His research methodology is
predominantly based
upon
computational modelling and creative practice. He believes that music is
a
highly sophisticated human capacity, which has played an important role
in the evolution of human cognition. He is the regional editor for South
America of Organized Sound (CUP) and a member of the editorial boards of
Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press) and Contemporary Music Review
(Routledge). In addition, he is an active composer in his own right. His
music has won prizes and has been performed in concerts and festivals
worldwide.
Eduardo coedited
Evolutionary Computer Music,
edited
Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence (Contemporary Music
Studies),
coauthored
New Digital Musical Instruments: Control And Interaction Beyond the
Keyboard (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series),
authored
Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician (Music
Technology
Series),
Composing Music With Computers, and
Computer Sound Design: Synthesis Techniques and Programming (Music
Technology),
and
composed
Miranda: Mother Tongue.
Eduardo also coauthored
Making Music with Algorithms: A Case Study,
A New Model of Sensorimotor Coupling in the Development of
Speech, and
Iterative Sound Synthesis using Cross-Coupled Digital
Oscillators,
and authored
Brain-computer music interface for composition and
performance,
Artificial Phonology: On Synthesizing Disembodied Humanoid Voice for
Composing Music with Surreal Languages,
At the Crossroads of Evolutionary Computation and Music:
Self-Programming Synthesizers, Swarm Orchestras, and the Origins of
Melody, and
Generating Source Streams for Extralinguistic Utterances.
Listen to Eduardo's
BBC Radio Devon
interview.
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