Interactive Music and Media with Aura

Speaker
Roger B. Dannenberg
Senior Research Computer Scientist and Artist, Carnegie Mellon University

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

Aura is “real-time middleware” supporting interactive music and multimedia systems. Aura has evolved to manage real-time audio signal processing, video sensing, 3D graphics, and distributed systems. Aura applications are programmed in C++ and Serpent, a new real-time scripting language based on Python. I will describe some of the unique problems of rapid-prototyping for “creative” applications, show how Aura addresses these problems, and demonstrate an Aura system that uses live video input to control time-varying audio spectra.

For more information, see: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/aura/

Speaker's Bio

Roger B. Dannenberg is a Senior Research Computer Scientist and Artist at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1982. He is internationally known for his research in the field of computer music. His current work includes research on computer accompaniment of live musicians, content-based music retrieval, interactive media, and high-level languages for sound synthesis. Products based on his computer accompaniment research are used by music students around the world.

Dr. Dannenberg sometimes poses as a trumpet player and composer, and he has performed in concert halls ranging from the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem to the modern Espace de Projection at IRCAM in Paris. His most recent musical efforts involve real-time computer graphics and computer music systems that interact with live musicians. Dannenberg also performs regularly with the Roger Humphries Big Band and the Capgun Quartet in Pittsburgh. Dr. Dannenberg sometimes poses as a trumpet player and composer, and he has performed in concert halls ranging from the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem to the modern Espace de Projection at IRCAM in Paris. His most recent musical efforts involve real-time computer graphics and computer music systems that interact with live musicians. Dannenberg also performs regularly with the Roger Humphries Big Band and the Capgun Quartet in Pittsburgh.

Speaker's Website
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/