This album is made by the producer JonaMari. Enjoy!

Jonamari - Distrust

JonaMari - Confused

JonaMari - Trust

JonaMari -HAHA!

JonaMari - Panick

JonaMari - Inside Look

JonaMari - Joy

Composed as one the major pieces for my PhD portfolio in 2021,  Now for Orchestra is an autobiographical piece which explores intuitive vs formalist approaches to composition, including algorithmic and computer-assisted compositional techniques.

Now for Orchestra

Performance for the World TB Day

Étoile Magique (Magic Star)

For SuperCollider, ixi Language, Analog Synthesizer and DSP 

Étoile Magique is a serial music composition for computer coding and various synthesis methods, created in six-movements and based on a mathematical game of the same name. The partitions are written to be performed by five components. An integral part of this work is the use of analog synthesizers in the time interval for each melodic line. I am inspired by a mathematical game, The Magic Star, to create this 30 minute texture of formalized events. The main component of this realization is ixi language. A computer programming language for musical creativity.

http://www.stazioneditopolo.it/
http://www.stazioneditopolo.it/24h-2016/

Étoile Magique | Performance for the World TB Day | ToBe Continued Festival 2016

CHIASMA is a prototype, representing the initial results of my project on composing with genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation. 
Genetic algorithms provide means of numerical and combinatorial optimization by generating more promising ideas from a specifiable set of components and processes. Individuals of an initial population with a random set of genes “mate”, and produce “offspring”, which would evolve under the process of natural selection over the course of generations.
CHIASMA uses an intelligent machine listening system to evaluate fitness values of generated individuals, by using fast Fourier transform as its translation method. The initial population is created from two random arrays, representing their random genomes. They mate to create offspring with the successful traits highlighted. Each chromosome array is compared to the target one through a simple linear distance function. individuals would then have an importance weight factor, used as a multiplication value when added to the mating pool, to assure that more desirable genes are passed on to the next generation. A mutation rate of one percent is considered to increase the chance of fit individuals being generated.
The research project focuses on employing the process of genetic evolution as the composition structure, as changes in parameters of the algorithm such as allowed population per generation, mutation rate, search environment, lifespan, etc. influence the events and speed of the system reaching its target. 

The algorithm is written in Supercollider.

Artwork by Arash Akbari
Mix/Master by Remmy for Duality Sound Lab

CHIASMA

musical experience of the experimentalist

Composer and sound artist working with serial and computer music. My work focuses on structured sound systems developed through algorithmic and stochastic processes. Poetic and mystical references inform the conceptual layer of the work alongside formal and computational methods.

Composer based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Originally a rock band drummer, Brian decided to put away the sticks for a while to pursue a music degree with the ultimate aim of composing music for film. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music Honours Degree (1999) and PhD in Musical Composition (2022) from the University of Edinburgh and for the past 26 years has been working as a composer, music educator and consultant.

His composition work spans a wide range of activities including composing for concert hall,  film, multi-media installation and theatre.

His credits include scoring music for a variety of film projects including the award winning animation Nocturne in Sea Shark, Beginning Ending, Ten Dead Men, Conversations with Dead Men, Salt of the Earth, A Stately Suicide and Christmas Hear Kids.

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