Dr. Maria Kallionpää will give a lunchtime talk on the piano as a super instrument in the Mixed Reality Lab meeting space at 12:30pm on Wednesday 27th July.
The purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical knowledge on how the interactive music techniques usually associated with computer game music could benefit the classical music composers and performers (and vice versa). We will focus on techniques used in procedural music. Certain interactive computer game scores and sound installations represent this genre, as well as electronic real-time-based compositions that may or may not require a human performer. In the context of interactive computer games, dynamic music systems directly react to the gamers´ actions. The authors´ aim was to find out how such systems could be used as part the electroacoustic composer´s technical and expressive vocabulary. Automatisation challenges the concept of form, rhythm, and harmony in a musical work. Instead of a closed entity, a dynamic music composition is a never-ending story with infinite number of alternatives, which is why such works get created again in every performance.
Dr. Maria Kallionpää is an internationally active composer, pianist, and toy piano performer. She was a holder of the AHRC and Scatcherd European Scholarships in 2010-2013 at the Oxford University and won the first prize of the OUPHIL composition competition in 2013. Moreover, she has graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien. Her works have been presented, for example, at Musikverein Wien, Philharmonie Luxembourg, and Sibiu Philharmonia. In 2011 Kallionpää was a composer in residence of the Turku European Culture Capital and a finalist of the Tenso European Chamber Choir Composition Competition. Kallionpaa has participated to various mixed-art projects incorporating film, video art, and theatre. soundcloud.com/m-kallionpaa
University of Nottingham School of Computer Science Nottingham, NG8 1BB
email: mrl@cs.nott.ac.uk