Revisiting December Hollow : Unearthing emotive shape

This paper documents an ongoing project between the composer/engineer Peter Zinovieff, composer Milton Mermikides and violinist Anne-Marie Curran-Cundy. The project is a developed realisation of Zinovieff’s 1969 December Hollow ‘fold-out score’ concept. The compositional system is designed to generate electronic music and/or conventional scores by slicing through a three-dimensional topographical score of ‘emotional zones’. Each zone is associated with a vector of musical parameters and by selecting various trajectories through the shape, countless pieces may be generated. This paper briefly outlines the approach taken to realize this idea, and develop it with the implementation of real-time processing, the mapping of score space with RGB space and vector transformations of Schumann’s Mein Herz ist Schwer , within an adaptive performance model.

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Milton Mermikides

Peter Zinovieff

Anne-Marie Curran-Cundy

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 96-99

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[0001]University of Surrey

London, UK

[0002]Unaffiliated

Cambridge, UK

[0003]University of Surrey

Guildford, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.16

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] BBC 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgfqx7 19 March 2020

[2] R Dean 2011 The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music 1st Oxford University Press Oxford

[3] S Marshak 2008 Earth: Portrait of a Planet Norton & Company New York

[4] M Mermikides 2011 Changes Over Time: Theory and Practice. PhD Thesis University of Surrey

[5] M MermikidesE Feygelson 2018 The shape of musical improvisation Music and Shape Oxford University Press Oxford

[6] T Wishart 1996 On Sonic Art Harwood Academic Publishers Amsterdam

[7] P Zinovieff 1958 The basic layered intrusion and the associated igneous rocks of the Central and Eastern Cuillin Hills, Isle of Skye D.Phil Thesis, Oxford University

[8] P Zinovieff 1969 The Special Case of Inspiration Computer Music Scores London Magazine 100 165 176

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