Alumni Juliana Friend and Ritwik Banerji in Fieldsights

Alumni Juliana Friend and Ritwik Banerji in Fieldsights

Juliana Friend published the review "Programming Improvisation" on Fieldsights in the 'Visual and New Media Review.' The review focused on the work of BCNM alum and ethnomusicologist Ritwik Banerji.

From the review:

Building on his career as a musician, he programmed a “virtual improviser” or “player-program,” an algorithm that can respond to and interact with human musicians in real time. Named after the software Max/MSP, Maxine is less a coherent physical apparatus than a network of feedback loops between algorithm, sonic input, and human musicians. Banerji programmed Maxine’s algorithm to produce spontaneity.

Read the rest of the review here.