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Past Events
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Empirics, Computation, Mathematics, Science and Technology in Music and Acoustical Signal Analysis (ECMST ~ MASA)
Saturday, August 28
ECMST ~ MASA II August 9 – 28, 2010 Foyer of the Musikinstrumentenmuseum Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung PK Berlin
The Other Music Festival
Friday, June 11
Burlington, VT
For Amy
Sunday, May 09
Tanna Schulich Hall 8pm, McGill University, Montreal, CA
Cellular Automata Music
Sunday, May 02
Broad Institute, Cambridge
Three Worlds, Music of Mallia, Miljkovic, Werntz
Tuesday, March 30
Jordan Hall 8pm 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Mallia-Miljkovic duo
Thursday, March 04
Stone, NYC 10pm
Upcoming Events
19th International Review of Composers, Belgrade
Tacet, Tribute to Cage
Nada Kolundzija, piano
Katarina Miljkovic, electronics
Entanglement: Video
This music is generated by a single cellular automaton: Rule 109 from A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram. It explores evolutions of the Rule under various initial conditions. Superimposition of the resulting sound structures vary from simple, static layers to repetitive modules and random distribution of sounds. The piece begins with a simple melodic material slowly growing from the texture of the Rule and, at the end, revealing a dance character of sound. Video for this piece is available on the videos page.
Contact Information
email: katarinamiljkovic@me.com
Katarina Miljkovic
New England Conservatory
290 Gainsborough St.
Boston, MA 02115-5018
@ NEC
Recording of the Cellular Automata Music, concert at Broad Institute, Cambridge Science Festival, on 5/2/2010, will be posted soon.
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Cellular Automata
The following pieces are result of my ongoing research on mapping cellular automata to music. Generative sound is always coupled with live performance of some kind, often improvisation, to contrast and enrich the mechanical aspects of electronic part. All of the chosen cellular automata are from the book A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram. Support from Wolfram Research team and Stephen Wolfram himself have been invaluable contribution to this enterprise.
For a complete list of cellular automata pieces, click here.