:::: Thor Magnusson ::::
A worker in rhythm, frequencies and intensities. Research and development in the areas of music and technology. I am a professor of future music in the Music Department at the University of Sussex and a research professor at the University of Iceland. In 2021 I served as an Edgard-Varese guest professor at the Technische Universitat Berlin.
Research interests include musical performance, improvisation, new technologies for musical expression, live coding, musical notation and digital scores, artificial intelligence and computational creativity, programming education, and the philosophy of technology.
University of Sussex Profile: Thor Magnusson
University of Iceland Profile: Thor Magnusson
Current Research Projects:
- Intelligent Instruments - An ERC-funded research project
- Sonic Writing - Genealogy of Digital Musical Instruments
- MIMIC - Machine Learning in Musical Creativity
- Sema - Designing live coding languages for Machine Learning
Books:
- Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal Inscriptions (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Live Coding: A User's Manual (MIT Press)
- Scoring Sound: Creative Music Coding with SuperCollider (Leanpub)
Open Access Research Publications: Thor Magnusson
Personal Website: ixi audio
Orcid: Orcid
Twitter: @thormagnusson
Code repository: github