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title: "13.03.2021"
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Sat, 13. March 2021

Staged as part of the [NTU CCA Singapore’s](https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/) 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:

{{< youtube EZvK8atIlnA >}}