(Inconspicuous)Nomad Music is a multidisciplinary center for research in interactive audio. By studying mental processes, digital technologies, and traditional techniques, we explore how the line between creator and user can be blurred or even intentionally confused. Our work is often computer-based, but this is not exclusively the case. Of equal interest is the exploration of interactivity in non-digital environments.
Ongoing areas of interest include: Composition, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Audience-centric interfaces, Embodied Interaction, Software Music Systems, Synthesis Techniques and Algorithms, Physical Modeling, Mobile Music, Sensors, Signal Processing, Digital Recording and Editing, Psychoacoustics and Musical Acoustics, Music Information Retrieval, Data Sonification and Sound Visualization, Music Cognition, Music Affect, Music Therapy, Music Education, and Acoustic Interactivity.
Work has begun on a new project, The Hearing Lineage, that examines how we hear and learn. At its heart is a human-driven algorithm (that is, designed, controlled and implemented by the composer) that allows each instrument to "learn" the music that it hears the others play. Each has certain tendencies of pitch and rhythm, but each also has the goal of repeating what it hears exactly -- at least, as far as that is truly possible.
KebyarButton is an evolving Balinese gamelan emulator. By algorithmically generating a simple version of a core section of a gamelan composition, KebyarButton encourages users to develop a basic understanding of the style. Each performance of KebyarButton is unique.
There is sound, and there are objects to play with. Paramitas is ready to be experienced.
