Guillermo Pozzati (Buenos Aires, 1958) is an Argentine composer, teacher and researcher. In 1992 he completed a residency as guest composer at the "Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics" at Stanford University. Finalist of the '4th International Music Software Competition' (Bourges, 1999) for the creation of "GEN: a Lisp Music Environment"", he was invited by the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) to provide an article about the software. As a theorist, Pozzati developed the concept of 'Infinite Suite', this idea was presented at the 'International Computer Music Conference' in Montreal (2009). In the same year, he became a Finalist in the International Electroacoustic Music Competition 'MUSICA NOVA', Czech Republic. Pozzati obtained the prestigious "Ciudad de Buenos Aires" first prize (2000), that carries with it a life grant for the winner and he was honored, among other distinctions, with the Medal of the "Concejo Argentino de la Música" (CAMU-UNESCO). The Arditti quartet selected one of his compositions to be played in a workshop in Buenos Aires (2001). "A Minute of SoniKMundus", a little piece of one minute duration is part of the Vox Novus International Mix (2010). As such it was performed with dancers at the Stratford Circus (London) and broadcasted by HEC-TV from Saint Louis, Missouri (USA). Pozzati is currently Director of the career in electroacoustic music composition at the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte (IUNA) in Buenos Aires and the Director of the 'Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollos Computacionales en Música' (CIDCOM) in the same institution.

 

 

 

GEN: A LISP music environment

GEN is a free, open source, MIDI Lisp Environment for music composition. It runs on the Windows OS family (xp, vista, seven, etc.). GEN is not a standalone application, it requires Allegro CL 8.2 free express edition installed on your machine  (download it from here).  Basic support for processing input midi streams is also given, but the main idea behind GEN is to provide tools for designing and testing algorithms for music generation. These algorithms can be implemented in Common Lisp. Users non familiar with Lisp can use the GEN graphic user interface to generate music according to stochastic or deterministic generation strategies. Gen results can be saved as MIDI files. Gen was inspired by the Lisp music software line represented by environments such as Common Music (by Rick Taube).

For more information, please visit the project website clicking here.

 

Infinite Suite

The expression 'Infinite Suite' refers to a type of musical composition that is based on successive fragmentations of a musical piece, called the 'mother piece'. Every piece in an infinite suite shows a particular permutation of the fragments in which the 'mother piece' is broken. However, only those permutations that produce musical processes that are significantly different from each other are considered in practice. These permutations should lead the listener to 'understand' the potential of the fragments to produce well differentiated musical experiences.

For more information, please visit the project website clicking here.