An innovative initiative that mixes music and technology will take place from October 11th to 14th at Gabriela Mistral Center. Forum-IRCAM 2017 will be held for the first time in Chile and will bring together national scientists and artists with their French counterparts. They will share with the audience in forums, workshops, concerts, and interdisciplinary activities.
Together, the attendants will discuss the latest advances related to contemporary research that connects music, sound, engineering, computer science, and mathematics. The contribution of artificial intelligence to the creation, orchestration, and musical improvisation; the development of new programming languages based on systems theories for musical analysis, and the use of the mathematical properties of waves and sound to combat diseases and to listen the noise of the mountains, are some of the topics this meeting will address.
These lectures will be given by University of Paris VI and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) researcher Carlos Agón, director of research at CNRS Jean-Louis Giavitto and associate professor at French Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) Philippe Esling. Chileans Axel Osses and Jaime Ortega, from the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the University of Chile, will also give a talk.
The Forum will also feature workshops by renowned composers. One of them is the Spanish Héctor Parra, winner of the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Foundation’s German Composition Award. His musical work is based on sound research with electronic elements. Another is the Chilean José Miguel Fernández, part of the award-winning album “50 años de música electroacústica en Chile”, who will share his creation and experience in experimental electro-acoustic music.
The program will also include a concert with works by these two composers performed by the Ensemble of Professors of the Department of Music and Sonology (DMUS) at Universidad de Chile Faculty of Arts. Andrés Maupoint will conduct the performance.
Organized by IRCAM, (COUNTRIES) have hosted this forum before. In Chile, CMM, the Department of Music and Sonology and the GEMA laboratory at Universidad de Chile, as well as the Music Institute at Catholic University supports the activity.
Registration required for free access:
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