PRiSM Blog

RNCM composition student Alexander Mouzouri discusses his collaboration with Dr Timothy Foster (University of Manchester) & its resultant piece Parallaxenreisen (2023).

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Dr Sam Salem discusses his first work using PRiSM SampleRNN, THIS IS FINE, through dialogues with cellist Alice Purton & re-appropriating questions of Britishness, identity & interference.

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Composer Professor George Lewis reflects on his year-long residency at PRiSM and the resultant work Forager (feat. the new PRiSM Music Gesture Recognition app).

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RNCM PRiSM Writer in Residence Leo Mercer reflects on his residency since 2021, and the resulting mock-up app ‘Poetry 2099: 10 21st Century Poets’.

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PRiSM Writer in Residence Abi Bliss reflects on her first-hand experience of working within the PRiSM community & introduces her new podcast: Infinite Remix.

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Professor Marcus du Sautoy reflects on animating the mathematics within Xenakis’ Nomos Alpha (1965) in celebration of the centenary of the iconic greek composer.

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Composer Emily Howard in conversation with mathematician Marcus du Sautoy on their joint exploration of different forms of mathematical proof through the creation of music.

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PRiSM Doctoral Researcher Megan Steinberg discusses her upcoming project ‘Outlier’, to be premiered at PRiSM Future Music #4 on 25 October 2022.

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Simon Knighton in conversation with Professor Lasse Rempe ahead of a Dynamical Systems-inspired concert to be taking place on 22 September 2022.

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Artist Melanie Wilson reflects on the first stage of her ongoing collaboration with PRiSM & Fuel, as part of Sound and Music’s New Voices programme.

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PRiSM Doctoral Researcher Robert Laidlow reflects on his recent experience curating a BBC Radio 3 broadcast for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Vicky Clarke, Artist in Residence with NOVARS, shares insights into creation of the neural synthesis work, AURA MACHINE.

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An update from 2021 PRiSM Writer in Residence Leo Mercer.

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Project update PRiSM Scientist in Residence 2021, Rose Pritchard.

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Experiencing AI in Music, by PRiSM Writer in Residence Abi Bliss.

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Local Refinement in Computational Science and Music by Patrick Sanan, PRiSM Scientist in Residence 2021

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Launch of The Text Score Dataset 1.0 by Jennifer Walshe, Darmstadt 3 August 2021.

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José del Avellanal Carreño writes about his collaboration with BCMG clarinetist, Oliver Janes, ‘speak, sing…’ incorporating material created using the machine learning software PRiSM SampleRNN to manipulate improvisations provided by Oliver.

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Professor of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool Mathias Brust and PRiSM Doctoral researcher and Composer Zakiya Leeming talk about their collaboration [U]nusual [m]etals.

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Christopher Melen and Nina Whiteman write about their collaboration on the new PRiSM Oscillator app for Nina’s composition Escape!

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PRiSM Doctoral Researcher Bofan Ma talks about his collaboration with Professor Keeley Crockett, Professor in Computational Intelligence at Manchester Metropolitan University, and the resulting project offset iii.

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Composer Emily Howard shares some thoughts about the creative process behind the series Orchestral Geometries.

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PRiSM 8³ | 8 composers x 8 scientists x 8 performers

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A text which navigates the blurry boundaries between humans and the objects they deem sentient.

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PRiSM Directors composer Emily Howard and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy lead students in a day of mathematical-musical exploration at the RNCM.

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A new piece written especially for PRiSM Future Music 2# by PRiSM Co-Director Marcus du Sautoy.

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Sam Salem introduces three new works commissioned for PRiSM Future Music #2 by RNCM Composition students Ellen Sargen, Fraz Ireland and Bofan Ma.

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Join PRiSM’s Doctoral Researcher Robert Laidlow for a presentation exploring the creative uses of artificial intelligence, featuring quartet performances from members of the BBC Philharmonic and RNCM soloist Vanessa Guinadi.

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An artistic reflection on composition in the age of Machine Learning, by Dr Sam Salem.

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Ada Lovelace – Imagining the Analytical Engine. BBC Radio 3’s Andrew McGregor, interviews the featured composers about their compositional process and the augmented and new instruments used.

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In this first instalment on AI and music, Dr Christopher Melen, PRiSM’s Research Software Engineer, introduces neural synthesis, an exciting technique that features in the artistic work of the PRiSM team.

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The Composer and Inventor behind the Lovelace Engine take you from brainstorm to stage.

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It begins with a single exhalation and ends in the midst of an uncanny, slow, violent storm.

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Meet the PRiSM Technical Director David De Roure, exploring the intersection of maths, algorithms and music.

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