Paul Doornbusch

Independent

The Australian College of the Arts moved an intensely hands-on practical audio production course to online delivery during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Great effort went into ensuring the highest quality in student experience. Furthermore, innovative ways were found to give students hands-on experience even in remote settings. This paper discusses t...

A review of Google's Bach "doodle" and AI algorithmic composition / harmonisation system.

This article documents the early experiments in both Australia and England to make a computer play music. The experiments in England with the Ferranti Mark 1 and the Pilot ACE (practically undocumented at the writing of this article) and those in Australia with CSIRAC (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer) are the oldes...

MuSA Conference 2017 - Presentation on the paper Early Computer Music Experiments in Australia, England and the USA.

While the early experiments in Australia to get a computer to play music are relatively well documented, recently there have been unearthed some previously unknown similar early experiments in England. The Ferranti Mark 1 played popular tunes similar to Australia’s CSIRAC and the UK Pilot ACE computer could algorithmically create sounds. This paper...

This is a more easily digestible rundown of the CSIRAC music story, written for the 60th anniversary of computing in Victoria. https://theconversation.com/how-australia-played-the-worlds-first-music-on-a-computer-60381

For a Sage encyclopaedia on music, this composition entry discusses musical composition from historical developments through to the present day.

Encyclopaedia entry for Electronic Music

This first definitive reference resource to take a broad interdisciplinary approach to the nexus between music and the social and behavioral sciences examines how music affects human beings and their interactions in and with the world. The interdisciplinary nature of the work provides a starting place for students to situate the status of music wit...

CSIRAC was probably the first computer in the world to play music, although that was never devel-oped. The music was never recorded, but it has been reconstructed to a very high degree of authenticity. The book documenting this, The Music of CSIRAC, interviewed several of the original personnel in-volved with CSIRAC and the music. This paper fills...

The great adventure of music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is the use of computers. There have been enormous challenges to overcome for the pioneers of computer music, from original and unique technical requirements to new aesthetics. The result of these developments is now a dominant musical activity. There is no linear trajectory or...

A review of the book "Algorithmic Composition: Paradigms of Automatic Music Generation."

There is little doubt that algorithmic composition really came into its own as computers became less expensive and more accessible. Formalizable and mathematical approaches to musical composition have had a longer history, but were less intensely applied before the development of commodity computers. Gerard Nierhaus is a composer who teaches Algori...

The concept of "presence" is a major part of the discourse of VR. Creating a sense of presence can be crucial to the effectiveness of museum exhibits and VR presentations. Sound can play various roles in technology-based presentations, by creating or enhancing a sense of presence, and providing a continuity of experience. This paper discusses these...

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When invited to write about my pre-compositional practice and in attempting to reflect upon that, a couple of significant points struck me; what exactly is pre-compositional practice, and do I engage in this activity at all? My compositional practice is largely algorithmic in nature, and it is in its output equally as often electronic as it is inst...

Mapping concerns the connection between structures, or gestures and audible results in a musical performance or composition. Algorithmic composition is sometimes the process of imagining a gesture or structure -perhaps physical or visual -and then applying a mapping process to turn that structure of the conceptual domain into sound which may displa...

Background For millennia we were accustomed to a direct link between action and sound. Before the invention of the telephone, we could usually see (and imagine) the cause of a sound. However, with the developments of the telephone, radio, recording and so on, sounds have become more disembodied from their source or cause. While with acoustic musica...

Mapping concerns the connection between structures, or gestures and audible results in a musical performance or composition. This is important to computer music composition as most of it is algorithmic in some way or another and it involves mapping. Algorithmic composition is sometimes the process of imagining a gesture or structure -perhaps physic...

An Australian-built "automatic computer" known as CSIRAC, was one of the world's earliest stored program electronic digital computers. Although the music performed by the CSIRAC may seem crude and unremarkable compared to the most advanced musical developments of the time, it was the first music in the world to be performed on a computer, and the m...

The Australian-built ''automatic computer'' ini-tially known as the CSIR Mk1, and later known as CSIRAC, was one of the world's earliest stored-program electronic digital computers (Williams 1997). (See Figure 1.) Coincidentally, it may also have been the first computer to play music, even though later work done elsewhere in the 1950s is clearly th...

The concept of "presence" is a major part of the discourse of VR. Creating a sense of presence can be crucial to the effectiveness of museum exhibits and VR presentations. Sound can play various roles in technology-based presentations, by creating or enhancing a sense of presence, and providing a continuity of experience. This paper discusses these...

Several aspects of sound in VR are addressed in this overview. Sound is typically a poor cousin to the visual domain in virtual reality systems. The lack of effective audio facilities and practice in VR mean that certain problems are not as well represented as others are. Sound is critical to the success of many VR activities. This paper is an over...

It is proposed that dualism between opposing states in spatialised sonic structures can be used as a significant starting point for discussion of the semantics of space in musical composition. A line of argument is traced that categorises different organisations of spatial parameters according to their properties of coherence or incoherence from th...

Mapping in instrument design has been an area of con- centrated investigation. Mapping as part of algorithmic composition has not been so thoroughly investigated. This is possibly because it is usually an integrated part of

Mapping concerns the connection between gestures, or structures and audible results in a musical performance or composition. While this is of intense interest to performers of new instruments and instrument designers, it has also been an area of interest for some composers. Algorithmic composition is sometimes the process of imagining a gesture or...

Mapping concerns the connection between structures, or gestures and audible results in a musical performance or composition. This is important to computer music composition as most of it is algorithmic in some way or another and it involves mapping. Algorithmic composition is sometimes the process of imagining a gesture or structure-perhaps physica...

PLACE-Hampi provides a framework for a new approach to the rendering of the cultural experience, whose aesthetic and representational features gives the general public a dramatic new appreciation of the many layered significations of such historical, archaeological, and architectural spaces. While PLACE-Hampi embodies a single user interaction mode...