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Uncertain Practices Ars Electronica Garden Espoo/Helsinki / 9 – 13 September 2020

Spring 2020 marked a period of enhanced uncertainty all around the world with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing societies into lockdown. The situation brought up societal and governance challenges that were further internalized into individuals’ thinking and their relationships as communities … Continue reading

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Digital Musical Instruments as Probes: How computation changes the mode-of-being of musical instruments

This is another Organised Sound (Open Access) publication by Koray Tahiroğlu, Thor Magnusson, Adam Parkinson, Iris Garrelfs and Atau Tanaka. This article explores how computation opens up possibilities for new musical practices to emerge through technology design. Link tot he … Continue reading

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Idiomatic Patterns and Aesthetic Influence in Computer Music Languages of musical instruments

This is an Organised Sound (Open Access) publication by Andrew McPherson and Koray Tahiroğlu. In this article we examine the ways in which computer music languages might similarly influence the aesthetic decisions of the digital music practitioner, even when those … Continue reading

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Symposium on Digital Musical Interactions OODI Maijansali, Helsinki / 14 November

The symposium, Socio-Cultural Role of Technology in Digital Musical Interactions, discussed critically our relationships with music and digital musical instruments, exploring how these new relationships build embodied behaviours, expectations, beliefs, interpretations and actions in various ways we practice and act … Continue reading

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Technology-assisted Creativity: from Human to Post-Human Keynote / BOZAR, Brussels 17 October 2019

In this talk Koray Tahiroğlu introduced our current research on digital musical instruments (DMIs) in which autonomous and intelligent computational features are applied to music generation with machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) tools. https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/sustainable-transformations

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AI x Music Festival / Ars Electronica 2019

Koray Tahiroğlu was invited to give a talk in AIxMusic Festival at Ars electronica on “Intelligent Sonic Agents: Otherness of Digital Musical Instruments” and a workshop on “Digital Musical Interactions” and also presented our NOISA project in AIxMusic exhibition. https://ars.electronica.art/outofthebox/en/noisa/

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London Workshop – Goldsmiths, University of London, 15 February 2019

The main purpose of the workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge among the participants, discussing the key features of musical culture in digital musical instrument (DMI) practices through our own research. The workshop will result in a set … Continue reading

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Academy of Finland Research Fellow Project

A new Academy of Finland Project started in September 2018, Digital Musical Interactions – Instruments – Performances is looking into socio-cultural role of digital musical instruments and our current relationship with with them. http://dmi.aalto.fi

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Open position (Research Assistant in Soundform Project)

Open position (Research Assistant in Soundform Project), DL 28.12.2018 We are hiring 1 full time or 2 part time student assistants – visual communication designers / programmers / sound designers / musicians –  to help us to create a visual soundforming … Continue reading

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Release of PESI Extended System, available for Open Source distribution

I am very happy to announce the Open Source release of PESI extended system developed at SOPI research group. This system is designed for co-located collaboration, providing spatial opportunities for musical exploration. The software system includes 2 main components; PESI_OnBody … Continue reading

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