My interactive music composition Soliloquy (for Violin and interactive music system with Max/MSP) was premiered in WOCMAT (International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology), an annual event for electroacoustic music and related research. The concert took place at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei on December 4, 2011.
Program Notes for Soliloquy (for Violin and Max/MSP)
Soliloquy, an interactive music composition for solo violin and interactive computer music system, is intended to describe a self-dialogue behavior in which an individual is divided into two roles that either contradict or support each other. The instrumental part acts as the self-speaker and the computer response acts as the inner thought of the speaker. The two are separate on the surface but actually come from the same self. The self-speaker speaks in well-defined words but the inner thought can be some vague feelings or unlingualized will. Similarly, the violin conveys itself with definite pitch but the computer may response with indefinite pitch. During the live performance, the interactive music system detects the note density, pitch range, and the phrase onset of the violin part and musically responses to it in real-time. The interactive music system is programmed in Max/MSP. The real-time audio synthesis techniques used include reverberation, harmonizer, delay, granular synthesis, looping, ring modulation, and etc.
WOCMAT 2011 was very successful this year with guests from IRCAM and united states. I also took a picture with guest lecturers Arshia Cont (from IRCAM) and interactive music composer Cort Lippe (from USA). They are very important figures in this field and it is great to have a chance to meet them.
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