Research
Recent Performances
- Whitla Hall, Belfast, ICMC and Sonorities Festival, concert curated by Joel Ryan,
August 2009 - “Offbeat Tribute to Stockhausenâ€, with Scanner, Chris Cutler and Dan Wandewalle,
London, March 2008 Watch it on YouTube - “Peninsula Arts Festivalâ€, Sherwell Theatre, Plymouth February 2008 Watch it on YouTube
- “SPNM Open Sourceâ€, the Luminaire, North London, October 2007
- Musica Viva Festival, Lisbon, August 2007 (recording accident by engineers, note to self : _always_ record your own…)
- Shrewsbury Darwin Festival, UK, July 2007
- Igor Stravinsky Hall, IRCAM (Centre Pompidou), NIME06, Paris, Sunday 4th of April
- INTERLACE series, London, Saturday 1rst April 2006 : RECORDING
- Sonic Arts 41: Agostino di Scipio – Soundspotting, 20th February 2006 : INFO — RECORDING
- Sonic Arts Research Centre : ‘Negotiating the Piano’, February 2, 2006, Belfast : INFO — RECORDING
Research statement
My research attempts to find ways of using software to deepen the musical knowledge of its users, through practical and performance interaction. It is driven by the following questions:
Are there common musical gestures (a lexicon) behind the work of contemporary improvisers (Bailey, E.Parker, Jarrett, Taylor, Braxton) and composers (Ligeti, Finnissy, Xenakis)? Could a software system be built, to help composers/improvisers to deeper understand this lexicon, and improve their own? Would building such a system give us new insight into how musical lexicons emerge and influence each other? Could they help us discover more about our own musical practice?
Published Work
Papers
David Plans Casal, “Time After Time : Short-circuiting The Emotional Distance
Between Algorithm And Human Improvisorsâ€, in proceedings of the International
Computer Music Conference, 24-29 August 2008, Belfast.
David Plans Casal and Davide Morelli, “Remembering the Future : and Overview of Co-Evolution in Musical Improvisation.”, in proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, 27-31 August 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Tampere, Finland: The International Computer Music Association , Volume I, pp.200-206.-
David Plans Casal and Davide Morelli, “Remembering the Future : Towards and Application of Genetic Co-Evolution in Music Improvisation.”, in proceedings of the MusicAL workshop, European Conference on Artificial Life, 10-14 September 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. CD-ROM.
