Evan X. Merz

This week What Will Come from the Vacuum is being played in Trauenkirchen, Germany, as part of a exhibition called Physik und Musik. This piece was written as a response to images of scientific equipment.

I really enjoyed working with Brandon Buczek on the score for the newest episode of Office Problems.

Published in Hz Journal #18.

In this essay I am going to review the topic of creativity in algorithmic music [1], focusing on three perspectives on creativity offered by three groups of composers. The first section will review the definition of creativity offered by computational psychologist Margaret Boden. The second section will examine one possible measure of creativity. The next section will look at three different composers, their attitudes toward creativity and the way their algorithms embody those attitudes. Finally, I will critically examine the core questions that are being asked by algorithmic composers.

Creativity in Algorithmic Music3.

Shortly, Machine Song 1 will be performed at the CSUF New Music Festival 2013.

Shortly, two of my pieces will be performed at Cyborgs Posthuman Culture Show in Kamloops, BC.