TY - GEN
T1 - Composing and Improvising. In Real Time
AU - Guedes, Carlos
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Fig. 2. Detail of a section combining improvised and notated music on “The resolution of regional tensions.” Acknowledgments. To Rui Penha and Matthew Davies for the kind invitation to deliver this keynote address. To George Sioros, Rui Dias, Gilberto Bernardes, Konstantinos Trochidis, and Akshay Anantapadmanabhan for the brainstorms and their commitment on the projects that led to the refinement of these ideas. Some of this work was done in the realm of project “Cross-disciplinary and multicultural perspectives on musical rhythm” funded through NYU Abu Dhabi Institute’s Research Enhancement Fund grant. Earlier work of mine on RTC was part of project “Kinetic controller, driven, adaptive and dynamic music composition systems” funded by the ERDF through the Program COMPETE, by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Project ref. FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-011414, UTAustin/CD/0052/2008.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper presents a summary of my keynote address discussing the differences between real-time composition (RTC) and improvisation. A definition of real-time composition is presented, as well as a summary discussion of its theoretical framework. Finally, a comparison between RTC and improvisation is done taking into account Richard Ashley’s discussion of improvisation from a psychological perspective [1], which provides an interesting insight in this distinction. RTC is then redefined as improvised composition with computers, and the possibilities of RTC existing outside of computer music are also briefly addressed.
AB - This paper presents a summary of my keynote address discussing the differences between real-time composition (RTC) and improvisation. A definition of real-time composition is presented, as well as a summary discussion of its theoretical framework. Finally, a comparison between RTC and improvisation is done taking into account Richard Ashley’s discussion of improvisation from a psychological perspective [1], which provides an interesting insight in this distinction. RTC is then redefined as improvised composition with computers, and the possibilities of RTC existing outside of computer music are also briefly addressed.
KW - Composition
KW - Improvisation
KW - Real-time composition
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-01692-0_29
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-01692-0_29
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85057433979
SN - 9783030016913
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 445
EP - 453
BT - Music Technology with Swing - 13th International Symposium, CMMR 2017, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Davies, Matthew E.P.
A2 - Aramaki, Mitsuko
A2 - Kronland-Martinet, Richard
A2 - Ystad, Sølvi
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 13th international Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, CMMR 2017
Y2 - 25 September 2017 through 28 September 2017
ER -