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Uploaded by on Oct 14, 2006

A video from the 1984 ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) at IRCAM in Paris, showing MIT's Barry Vercoe and flautist Larry Beauregard (my late brother) of Boulez' Ensemble Intercomtemporain demonstrating the use of the computer as a synthetic performer, listening to and accompanying a live performer.

See also Vercoe's paper from ICMC 1984 Proceedings
http://web.media.mit.edu/~bv/papers/synthetic%20performer.pdf

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  • Is the accompaniment a computer composition ??

  • The accompaniment is a Handel flute sonata (from well before the age of computers :-). The video isn't a demonstration of computer composition - rather it's a demo of a computer listening to and accompanying a live performer, with both the live performer and computer following a score (i.e. a predefined composition).

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  • La flûte que je joue toujours a d'ailleurs appartenu à Larry. Je me souviens encore du choc que j'ai éprouvé en apprenant sa mort. Je suis allé à un service funéraire à Montréal et j'ai été très ému de voir son frère (vous ?) dire quelque mots car la ressemblance était frappante.

    Larry était brillant, doué et d'une grande bonté. Il me manque.

  • Je suis bouleversé de revoir Larry après toutes ces années. J'ai étudié au Conservatoire de Hull en même temps que lui. J'étais plus jeune et moins avancé que lui. Il a été d'une gentillesse extrême avec moi, me prêtant des partitions et des disques et m'invitant souvent à manger mon lunch avec lui en écoutant de la musique à son appartement tout près du Conservatoire. Je l'ai retrouvé avec plaisir à Paris mais je le voyais très peu car il jouait déjà dans l'Ensemble Intercontemporain.

  • Thanks. I was trying to figure out whether Dr. Barry Vercoe dabbled in computer-based compositions

  • Exceptional document! Thanks!

  • Sorry to bother you again, but what genre of music does it compose ? Just classical music ? Or can its utility be extended to other genres, i.e. pop or rock music ? I checked Barry Vercoe's website, and there were no examples of classical pieces composed with CSound

  • Yes...also.....Csound is a power language for synthesis,sampling,Dsp,etc....­is open source for win,mac,linux

  • Does CSOUND compose music ?

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