I'd like to get my feet wet with computer music, but I'm not ready to plunk down the cash for any of the fancy software (MAX...). It doesn't help that I'm also using a PC. I'd like to do weird stuff ...

Writer and musician David Was introduces a composer who has developed a computer system that plays along with a human musician. The computer matches the musician's improvisations with riffs of its own ...

From Monday to Friday, the Department of Music’s Composition and Computer Technologies program will be hosting the 26th annual Technosonics music festival at University Venues and in Charlottesville.

His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity. By Miguel Salazar David Cope, a composer ...