TEDxGrandRapids - Patrick Flanagan - Innovate: Cyborg Musicality
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Music-making machines have existed for centuries, but interacting with them in live performance poses new technical challenges and aesthetic questions about the locus of creativity and musical expression. Speaker Bio: Patrick Flanagan serves as the token human in the cyborg percussion ensemble Jazari, which fuses African rhythms, algorithmic ... Read more
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- -: TEDxGrandRapids - Patrick Flanagan - Innovate: Cyborg Musicality
June 4, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Music-making machines have existed for centuries, but interacting with them in live performance poses new technical challenges and aesthetic questions about the locus of creativity and musical expression. Speaker Bio: Patrick Flanagan serves as the token human in the cyborg percussion ensemble...
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