Keep up!
Premiere
27/04/2023 - Museu Nacional da Música (PT) - Ricardo Pires
Commission
Commissioned by Ricardo Pires
Releases
2023 – Ricardo Pires - Windsor Project | [CD]• Track 3 – Keep Up!
Programme notes
In Keep up! the score is generated via real-time use of computer-assisted orchestration software by recording the first 5 seconds of the acoustics and immediately cross-referencing the spectral result with a database composed of multiple spectral analyses of an alto saxophone playing in any pitch, dynamic, and articulation.
Further, the performer starts playing what the digitally notated score displays and keeps on going until after the 7th-minute mark which is when the computer is allowed to continue or to stop. The system keeps recording every 5 seconds and repeating every step of the feedback chain until a sonic world that blurs the line between acoustics, electronics, and performance is met.
As for electronics, a system of multiple envelope followers works in real time to 'transcode' the amplitude levels of the incoming signal into numerical data. This data is then used to control a wide range of processes, such as delays, granular synthesis, and distortion, amongst others.
Hence, Keep up! seeks to blur the boundaries of human versus machine artistic creation. Such definitions as 'error', 'mistake', 'composer', and 'form' are stripped of their traditional meaning.
Written in 2022 as part of my Doctor in Music — Composition at the Royal College of Music, London (EN). With the support of The ACTOR Project (CAN); Royal College of Music London (EN); Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT); Foundation for Science and Technology (PT) and Leões de Portugal (PT).
© PRS/MCPS/SPA ISWC T-311.150.240-6
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Premiere
27/04/2023 - Museu Nacional da Música (PT) - Ricardo Pires
Commission
Commissioned by Ricardo Pires
Releases
2023 – Ricardo Pires - Windsor Project | [CD]• Track 3 – Keep Up!
Programme notes
In Keep up! the score is generated via real-time use of computer-assisted orchestration software by recording the first 5 seconds of the acoustics and immediately cross-referencing the spectral result with a database composed of multiple spectral analyses of an alto saxophone playing in any pitch, dynamic, and articulation.
Further, the performer starts playing what the digitally notated score displays and keeps on going until after the 7th-minute mark which is when the computer is allowed to continue or to stop. The system keeps recording every 5 seconds and repeating every step of the feedback chain until a sonic world that blurs the line between acoustics, electronics, and performance is met.
As for electronics, a system of multiple envelope followers works in real time to 'transcode' the amplitude levels of the incoming signal into numerical data. This data is then used to control a wide range of processes, such as delays, granular synthesis, and distortion, amongst others.
Hence, Keep up! seeks to blur the boundaries of human versus machine artistic creation. Such definitions as 'error', 'mistake', 'composer', and 'form' are stripped of their traditional meaning.
Written in 2022 as part of my Doctor in Music — Composition at the Royal College of Music, London (EN). With the support of The ACTOR Project (CAN); Royal College of Music London (EN); Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT); Foundation for Science and Technology (PT) and Leões de Portugal (PT).
© PRS/MCPS/SPA ISWC T-311.150.240-6
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Premiere
27/04/2023 - Museu Nacional da Música (PT) - Ricardo Pires
Commission
Commissioned by Ricardo Pires
Releases
2023 – Ricardo Pires - Windsor Project | [CD]• Track 3 – Keep Up!
Programme notes
In Keep up! the score is generated via real-time use of computer-assisted orchestration software by recording the first 5 seconds of the acoustics and immediately cross-referencing the spectral result with a database composed of multiple spectral analyses of an alto saxophone playing in any pitch, dynamic, and articulation.
Further, the performer starts playing what the digitally notated score displays and keeps on going until after the 7th-minute mark which is when the computer is allowed to continue or to stop. The system keeps recording every 5 seconds and repeating every step of the feedback chain until a sonic world that blurs the line between acoustics, electronics, and performance is met.
As for electronics, a system of multiple envelope followers works in real time to 'transcode' the amplitude levels of the incoming signal into numerical data. This data is then used to control a wide range of processes, such as delays, granular synthesis, and distortion, amongst others.
Hence, Keep up! seeks to blur the boundaries of human versus machine artistic creation. Such definitions as 'error', 'mistake', 'composer', and 'form' are stripped of their traditional meaning.
Written in 2022 as part of my Doctor in Music — Composition at the Royal College of Music, London (EN). With the support of The ACTOR Project (CAN); Royal College of Music London (EN); Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT); Foundation for Science and Technology (PT) and Leões de Portugal (PT).
© PRS/MCPS/SPA ISWC T-311.150.240-6
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