David Kim-Boyle is a visiting composer/researcher from the University of Sydney. He will be talking about his work with real-time, generative notations with numerous examples from recent collaborations with Australian new music ensemble Decibel, Dutch sound-poet Jaap Blonk, and the Hamburg based TonArt Ensemble. The unique musical possibilities afforded by generative notation will be discussed and he will conclude the talk with discussion of the development of a new work for the ELISION ensemble, which is the focus of his research at IRCAM, featuring the use of responsive, three-dimensional notational schemas.

Bio :
David Kim-Boyle is an Australian composer and new media artist whose music has received widespread recognition for its delicately nuanced sonic qualities and innovative use of technology. His work has been performed and presented throughout North America and Europe at various festivals and contemporary music events and he has been a guest artist at some of the world’s leading computer music research facilities including the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe), the Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast), and STEIM (Amsterdam). His creative practice is focused on the development of real-time graphic scores that explore the musical possibilities of complex open-forms and his research has been regularly presented at many of the world’s leading forums for new music research including ICMC, DAFx, SMC, TENOR and NIME and published in journals such as Contemporary Music Review, Organised Sound, Leonardo Music Journal amongst others. Current projects include a new work for the ELISION ensemble featuring a real-time reactive score, and a collection of piano etudes the score for which is based on the use of k-d trees for parametric mapping.