[x] Group of X: Christopher Anderson, Fri Mar 28, 7pm

[jim andrews]

I'm happy to announce that Christopher Anderson will be presenting his work to the Group of X on Fri Mar 28 at 7pm.

Christopher Anderson is a recent master of fine arts graduate, sessional instructor and research assistant in the School of Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver British Columbia. He is a composer and performer with a background in both traditional and electroacoustic music. His interests include exploring new approaches to interactive music performance and the use of generative systems within composition. Much of his recent work has been in assisting a generative music project the Generative Electronica Research Project (GERP) within the Metacreation, Multi-Agent Systems lab (MAMAS) at SFU. Christopher recently presented some of this work at the October 2013 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, Music Metacreation workshop in Boston. He also writes electronic music related articles for the online magazine PopMatters.

For this Group of X meeting he will be discussing the use of generative systems in live mixed media performance and how they relate to his practice.  He will demonstrate some of his MFA thesis work as well as some systems that have emerged from his work as a research assistant with MAMAS at SFU.  He will also be looking at how some corpus based algorithmic processes can provide some interesting results for use in live performance and in music studio production practices.  Some areas of live performance aesthetics such as ephemerality will also be discussed.

His Vimeo performance videos: http://vimeo.com/user7857243

SoundCloud site of his generative system GEDMAS: https://soundcloud.com/pitter-pattr

Website: oscillatedspace.com (under construction)

LOCATION

The talk is at Jim Andrews's and Natalie Funk's place at #805, 4350 Beresford St, Burnaby (Metrotown). There's free parking at the foot of the building and on Beresford St. Just don't park in the bus stop. It is easy to get here by skytrain. Go to the Patterson skytrain station. Walk up Beresford St. for 3-5 minutes. You can only walk in one direction on Beresford cuz it starts at the Patterson station. We are at the corner of Willingdon and Patterson. Buzz 139. BYOB. We will provide sushi and possibly sweets.

MAP

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=4350+Beresford+St,+Burnaby,+BC