Profiles

David Plans Casal (http://davidcasal.com) is a musician and researcher. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and music. He has given talks and concerts at IRCAM, the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, the Musica Viva Festival in Lisbon and the New Music Festival at Dartmouth College, several London venues including Ray's Jazz Cafe, The Shunt Vaults and Goldsmiths College, and other international venues. His current focus uses evolutionary computation techniques, in particular genetic co-evolution, as applied to the frequency domain using MPEG7 techniques, in order to create reflexive systems that mediate between an improvisor and their unconscious mind. He recently gave papers and performances at the International Computer Music Conference ('07, '08), the European Conference on Artificial Life, the Darwin Symposium, and the Computer Arts Society in London. His teaching focuses on software and hardware practices for Digital Musics, and he is an Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College (http://www.dartmouth.edu). He produces music under his own name using live algorithms and improvisation with home-made instruments, and a few aliases (subplan, peakstop) help him explore spaced-out electronic that sometimes resembles the weirder edges of dubstep, a genre that took over him while living in London.