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title: "CCA NTU 13.03.2021"
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# Improvisation and Control

Sat, 13. March 2021

Staged as part of the NTU CCA Singapore’s recurring Free Jazz program, this episode of Machine Listening focused on the complex and evolving dialectic between improvisation and control, via a detour into the experimental computer music laboratories of the 1980s and 90s where the term ‘machine listening’ first begins to circulate.

Runsheet:

* {{<nosup>}}[Machine Listening, Essay I: Interactive (music) systems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvK8atIlnA&t=120s){{</nosup>}}
* {{<nosup>}}[Jessica Feldman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvK8atIlnA&t=932s){{</nosup>}}
* {{<nosup>}}[Luca Lum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvK8atIlnA&t=2520s){{</nosup>}}
* {{<nosup>}}[Machine Listening, Essay II: Rainbow Family](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvK8atIlnA&t=3242s) {{</nosup>}}
* {{<nosup>}}[Mattin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvK8atIlnA&t=4039s) {{</nosup>}}
* {{<nosup>}}[Bani Haykal & Lee Weng Choy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvK8atIlnA&t=5152s) {{</nosup>}}
* {{<nosup>}}[Machine Listening, Essay III: DARPA Improv](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvK8atIlnA&t=6196s) {{</nosup>}}
* {{<nosup>}}[Bridget Chappell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvK8atIlnA&t=6802s) {{</nosup>}}
* {{<nosup>}}[Lee Gamble](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvK8atIlnA&t=7700s) {{</nosup>}}

[full documentation](https://youtu.be/EZvK8atIlnA "Singapore: Improvisation and Control")