Developing a new performance with a new quantum computer

Dr Alexis Kirke, a Senior Research Fellow of the ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) at Plymouth University, has begun a two-week residency at the University of Southern California (USC) in the Quantum Computation and Open Quantum Systems (QCOQS) group. Alexis has been invited to collaborate with this world-leading research group to develop a musical performance using its $15m… Continue reading Developing a new performance with a new quantum computer

Ground-breaking performance by ICCMR’s The Paramusical Ensemble

The Paramusical Ensemble

Four individuals with complex neurological conditions have, for the first time, taken part in a live musical performance with a string quartet. The film of this ground-breaking musical performance will premiere at Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2016.  It showcases an extraordinary project led by Plymouth University and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability which saw four patients at the… Continue reading Ground-breaking performance by ICCMR’s The Paramusical Ensemble

‘An Accident of the History of Technology’ podcast with Guy Edmonds

CogNovo Research Fellow, Guy Edmonds, has published a podcast with Roger Malina on the very early days of cinema. It has the title “The Divorce of Eye and Ear is an Accident of the History of Technology” and is available on the international, interdisciplinary, multi-lingual online platform, Creative Disturbances. Creative Disturbances is a new Leonardo… Continue reading ‘An Accident of the History of Technology’ podcast with Guy Edmonds