This month (Feb 2010) Hands Free will feature software works by Arne Eigenfeldt, Oliver Hancock, Michael Young, Ross Bencina and me, Ollie Bown, featuring performances by Brigid Burke, Adrian Sherriff and Jeremy Marozeau.

Works
Arne Eigenfeldt : BeatBox
Arne Eigenfeldt is a composer, software developer, researcher in intelligent music systems, and associate professor of Music and Technology at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He will not be attending the Winter Olympics (©). BeatBox is created by Kinetic Engine, a multi-agent polyphonic rhythm generator created by Arne Eigenfeldt. Agents collaborate to form complex rhythms, while attempting to satisfy the performer’s control over density.
Ross Bencina : Live Processing using AudioMulch
Ross Bencina is a sonic improviser who develops his own performance software called AudioMulch. AudioMulch will transform live sound from everyday objects into a surreal soundscape of processed sound.
Michael Young : Piano_prosthesis
Michael Young is a composer and senior lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, and co-founder of the UK Live Algorithms for Music network. Piano_prosthesis is from a series of improvised ‘compositions’ in which performer and machine engage in an equally-based process of mutual listening, learning and response. The system classifies the improviser’s musical behaviour; each classification is then tied, in performance, to a particular stochastic musical output: The improviser is invited to respond to or mirror this process, which consequently increases in range and complexity as the performance unfolds.
Ollie Bown : Hybrid Evolved Network
Ollie Bown is an electronic musician and researcher in adaptive and evolutionary approaches to art and music. His hybrid evolved network is a modular system consisting of evolved and hand-coded components that interact to produce a dynamical reactive musical behaviour for improvisation.
Oliver Hancock: chor-respondent
Oliver was educated in New Zealand and has just completed his PhD at the University of York. He lectures at Leeds College of Music. His pieces are inspired by nature; he uses classic chaos algorithms and also invents his own compositional systems. chor-respondent generates pitches which are consonant with the live performer’s playing. It is somewhat unpredictable, but has a tendency to create phrases with a sense of harmonic cadence.
Details
Date: 17th February 2010.
Location: Guildford Lane Gallery, Guildford Lane, Melbourne 3000.
Time: doors 6pm, music 7 – 9pm.
Entry: free / donations.







