Talks and Writing

Some talks, presentations and writings by Gordon Monro.

Articles listed here have all appeared somewhere outside this website.

Articles and reviews

"Review: Super Human Revolution of the Species", Filter (journal of the Australian Network for Art and Technology), issue 73 (2010). Available at http://filter.anat.org.au/issue-73/review-super-human-revolution-of-the-species/#more-3820.

"Gordon Monro - Los sonidos de la naturaleza", El Niuton, issue 2, 2007, 158-164. [This was an invited contribution: I contributed text which was translated into Spanish; there are also excerpts of my work and a video interview.]

"ACMA 2005 - conference review", Chroma - Newsletter of the Australasian Computer Music Association, vol 37 (2006), 12-16.

"Evochord", artist's presentation in Generative Arts Practice: A Creativity & Cognition Symposium, ed. Ernest Edmonds, Paul Brown and Dave Burraston, Creativity and Cognition Studio Press, University of Technology, Sydney, 2005, 140-143. Also on this site (PDF, 261 kB).

Review of the book Impossible Nature by Jon McCormack . Chroma - Newsletter of the Australasian Computer Music Association, vol 36 (2005), 19-21. Also on this site. [The Chroma issue is no. 36, even though it says 34 on the front page.]

"What Are You Really Thinking?: A sonification for ICAD2004", article for the "Listening to the Mind Listening" concert. Available here on the ICAD2004 website. Also on this site (PDF, 199 kB).

"International Acoustic Ecology Symposium - conference review", Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, vol 4 no 2 (2003), 39-41.

"ACMA 2003 - conference review", Chroma - Newsletter of the Australasian Computer Music Association, vol 34 (2003), 11-17.

"Real, Electronic, Virtual - conference review", Chroma - Newsletter of the Australasian Computer Music Association, vol 32 (2002), 11-17.

"Second Iteration - conference review", Chroma - Newsletter of the Australasian Computer Music Association, vol 31 (2001), 7-10.

Waveform 2001 - Australasian Computer Music Association Conference, School of Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney, 12-14 July 2001. (I was the editor of the conference proceedings volume.)

"Some experiences with algorithms in musical composition", Proceedings of the Mathematics and Art Conference, Bond University, Dec. 2000, N. de Mestre, Bond University, (2000), 11-19.

"Computer Music in New South Wales", Organised Sound (Cambridge U.P.), vol 6 (2001), 55-61.

"An acousmatic experience - conference review", Chroma - Newsletter of the Australasian Computer Music Association, vol 26-27 (2000), 3-6. Republished in econtact, the online magazine of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community.

"In-phase corrections for Ambisonics", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Berlin, 27 Aug - 1 Sept, 2000 (ed. I. Zannos), 292-295. Download an extended version of this article (PDF, 235 kB).

"Some sound modifications using wavelets", "Imaginary Space" Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1999, 32-35. Subsequently published in MikroPolyphonie vol 5, 2001.

"Notes on 'Suite for the Organ of St John's, Neutral Bay'", Sydney Organ Journal, Winter 1999, p.13.

"Report on the 1999 ANAT Summer School", Chroma - Newsletter of the Australian Computer Music Association vol 24, 1999, 2-3.

(With Jeff Pressing) "Sound visualization using embedding: the art and science of auditory autocorrelation", Computer Music Journal, vol 22, 1998, 20-30.

"Taming chaotic waveforms", Interface 97 Conference, University of Auckland School of Music, 1997, 1-9.

"This is art, not science", Leonardo Music Journal, vol 12, 1997, 77-80. [This was an invited contribution.]

(With Jon Drummond) "Sound imaging through lagged embedding", International Computer Music Association Video Review, vol 2, 1995. [This was a short video.]

"Intuition, algorithms and 'Dry Rivers'", Australian Computer Music Association Conference 1995, 39-50, 1995.

"Fractal interpolation waveforms", Computer Music Journal, vol 19 no 1, 1995, 88-98.

"Waveform modification by lagged embedding", MikroPolyphonie, vol 1 (1995), 29-31.

(With Jon Drummond) "Geometric sound transformations", International Computer Music Conference, Aarhus, 1994, 327-328.

Talks

Presentation at the Impact7 conference, Monash University, Melbourne, 29th September, 2011.

Presentations on my work to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Queensland Institute of Technology, April 30 and May 1, 2007.

Presentation on Evochord and some of my other generative works, Electronic Music Unit, Elder School of Music, Adelaide University, March 18, 2006.

Informal presentation to the postgraduate group at the Sound Studios, SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory), RMIT University, Melbourne, 9th May 2005.

Presentation on my work Red Grains as part of Metro Screen's Kaleidoscope Festival, Sydney, November 2003.