Seminar Abstract

22 Nov 2006:
Speaker: Jaime Serquera
Venue:     Devonport Lecture Theatre, Portland Square
Time:       14:00

Real Time considerations of LISP based systems for Algorithmic Composition

In the development of musical systems, there have been successful attempts in the design of environments for music composition. Also, there have been many solutions for the integration between synthesis and composition.

Real-time synthesis applications are very flexible for sound and music programming, but continuous and irreversible time, necessary for sound synthesis, is not the better paradigm for music composition when we need to deal with temporal structures.

Lisp is a programming language widely used for algorithmic composition because of its high level structural possibilities. Based on lisp functions, different frameworks, toolkits and even new languages have been developed for algorithmic composition. The combination of different programming languages have been used to make up for the real-time problems of Lisp based systems (mainly garbage collection, execution speed and scheduling).

Current research is concerning the potential of real-time lisp based systems at different stages of the algorithmic compositional process.