By Associate Professor Oliver Bown

Conference Papers

Bray L; Bown O, 2014, 'Digital Composition Systems: User experience study', in Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne, July 9th-11th, 2014., Melbourne, presented at Australasian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne, 09 July 2014 - 11 July 2014

Bown O; Bell R; Parkinson A, 2014, 'Examining the Perception of Liveness and Activity in Laptop Music: Listeners’ inference about what the performer is doing from the audio alone', in Proceedings of the NIME 2014 Conference, Goldsmiths, London, June 30th-July 3rd, 2014., London, presented at New Interfaces for Musical Expression, London, 30 June 2014 - 03 July 2014

Bown O; Saunders R, 2014, 'A Survey of Programmers’ Practices for Handling Complexity in Creative Coding', in Proceedings of the xCoAx Conference, Porto, June 26th-27th, 2014., Porto, presented at xCoAx Conference, Porto, 26 June 2014 - 27 June 2014

Hespanhol L; Tomitsch M; Bown O; Young MM, 2014, 'Using Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction to Promote Social Encounters Around Large Media Façades', in Wakkary R (ed.), Proceedings of the 2014 Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2014, Association for Computing Machinery, Vancouver, BC, pp. 945 - 954, presented at DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2014, Vancouver, BC, 21 June 2014 - 25 June 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598568

Bown O, 2014, 'A Model of Runaway Evolution of Creative Domains', in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Ljubljana, June 10th-13th, 2014., Ljubljana, presented at International Conference on Computational Creativity, Ljubljana, 10 June 2014 - 13 June 2014

Bown O, 2014, 'Empirically Grounding the Evaluation of Creative Systems: Incorporating Interaction Design', in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Ljubljana, June 10th-13th, 2014., Ljubljana, presented at International Conference on Computational Creativity, Ljubljana, 10 June 2014 - 13 June 2014

Bown O, 2014, 'A model of runaway evolution of creative domains', in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity Iccc 2014

Bown O, 2014, 'Empirically grounding the evaluation of creative systems: Incorporating interaction design', in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity Iccc 2014

Pasquier P; Eigenfeldt A; Bown O, 2014, 'Preface', in Aaai Workshop Technical Report, pp. vii

Eigenfeldt A; Bown O; Pasquier P; Martin A, 2013, 'Reflections on the First Musical Metacreation Weekend', in Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'13) workshops, Boston, MA, October 14-15th, 2013., Boston, MA, presented at Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE), Boston, MA, 14 October 2013 - 14 October 2013

Bown O; Britton S, 2013, 'Methods for the Flexible Parameterisation of Musical Material in Ableton Live', in Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'13) workshops, Boston, MA, October 14-15th, 2013., Boston, MA, presented at Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE), Boston, MA, 13 October 2013 - 14 October 2013

Bown O; Eigenfeldt A; Martin A; Carey B; Pasquier P, 2013, 'The Musical Metacreation Weekend: Challenges arising from the live presentation of musically metacreative systems', in Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'13) workshops, Boston, MA, October 14-15th, 2013., Boston, MA, presented at Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE), Boston, MA, 13 October 2013 - 14 October 2013

Bown O; Saunders R, 2013, 'Multi-feature visualisations of phenotypic behaviour for creative interactive evolution', in Gecco 2013 Proceedings of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, pp. 49 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2464576.2464602

Bown O; Young MM; Johnson S, 2013, 'A Java-based Remote Live Coding System for Controlling Multiple Raspberry PI Units', in Hope C; Vickery L (ed.), ICMC 2013 Proceedings, [International Computer Music Association], [2013], [San Francisco], pp. 31 - 38, presented at International Computer Music Conference, Perth, Australia, 07 August 2013 - 17 August 2013, https://www.dropbox.com/s/qf3vd4crhgrcrjw/1216_TNM_ICMC_Proceedings_screen.pdf

Bown O; Martin A, 2013, 'Backgammon: Process-based musical explorations using the Agent Designer', in C and C 2013 Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013 Intersections and Interactions, pp. 390 - 391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2466627.2481236

Hespanhol L; Bown O; Cao J; Tomitsch M, 2013, 'Evaluating the effectiveness of audio-visual cues in immersive user interfaces', in Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference Augmentation Application Innovation Collaboration Ozchi 2013, pp. 569 - 572, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2541016.2541094

Martin A; Bown O, 2013, 'The Agent Designer Toolkit', in C and C 2013 Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013 Intersections and Interactions, pp. 386 - 387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2466627.2481211

Mark MC; Bown O, 2013, 'Towards a creativity support tool in processing: Understanding the needs of creative coders', in Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference Augmentation Application Innovation Collaboration Ozchi 2013, pp. 143 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2541016.2541096

Eigenfeldt A; Bown O; Pasquier P; Martin A, 2013, 'Towards a taxonomy of musical metacreation: Reflections on the first musical metacreation weekend', in Aaai Workshop Technical Report, pp. 40 - 47

Pasquier P; Eigenfeldt A; Bown O, 2012, 'AAAI Workshop - Technical Report: Preface', in Aaai Workshop Technical Report

Bown O; Martin A, 2012, 'Autonomy in music-generating systems', in Aaai Workshop Technical Report, pp. 8 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v8i4.12554

Martin A; Jin CT; Carey B; Bown O, 2012, 'Creative experiments using a system for learning high-level performance structure in Ableton live', in Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference Smc 2012

Bown O; Jones D; Britton S, 2012, 'Surface as structure: The multi-touch controller as map of musical state space', in Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference Smc 2012

Martin A; Jin CT; Bown O, 2011, 'A toolkit for designing interactive musical agents', in Proceedings of the 23rd Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference Ozchi 2011, pp. 194 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2071536.2071567

Bown O; McCormack J; Kowaliw T, 2011, 'Ecosystemic methods for creative domains: Niche construction and boundary formation', in IEEE Ssci 2011 Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence IEEE Alife 2011 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, pp. 132 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954651

Bown O; McCormack J, 2011, 'Creative agency: A clearer goal for artificial life in the arts', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 254 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21314-4_32

Young M; Bown O, 2010, 'Clap-along: A negotiation strategy for creative musical interaction with computational systems', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity Iccc 10, pp. 215 - 222

McCormack J; Bown O, 2009, 'Life's what you make: Niche construction and evolutionary art', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 528 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0_59

Bown O, 2009, 'A framework for ecosystem-based generative music', in Proceedings of the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference Smc 2009, pp. 195 - 200

Bown O, 2009, 'Against Individual Creativity', in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings

Bown O; McCormack J, 2009, 'Creative Agency: A Clearer Goal for Artificial Life in the Arts', in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings

Bown O, 2009, 'Ecosystem models for real-time generative music: A methodology and framework', in Proceedings of the 2009 International Computer Music Conference Icmc 2009, pp. 537 - 540

Jones D; Bown O; McCormack J; Pachet F; Young M; Berry R; Asaf I; Porter B, 2009, 'Stimulating creative flow through computational feedback', in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings

Bown O; Wiggins GA, 2007, 'On the meaning of life (in artificial life approaches to music)', in Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, pp. 65 - 71

Bown O; Lexer S, 2006, 'Continuous-time recurrent neural networks for generative and interactive musical performance', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 652 - 663, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11732242_62

Conference Posters

Ocampo Blanco R; Bown O, 2024, 'Integrating Generative AI into Creative Workflows: Dealing with Consistency, Scene Control, and Refinement in a Professional Image Generation Case Study', Jönköping, Sweden, presented at International Conference on Computational Creativity, Jönköping, Sweden, 17 June 2024 - 21 June 2024

Gillespie S; Bown O, 2017, 'Directing Geometrical Musical Representations with Curve-Based Metaparameters', Adelaide, presented at Australasian Computer Music Conference, Adelaide, 28 September 2017 - 01 October 2017

Software / Code

Fraietta A; Bown O, 2019, HappyBrackets V4.5, Open source platform for coding audio and media programs on remote devices, Published: 01 October 2019, Software / Code, https://github.com/orsjb/HappyBrackets

Bown O; Fraietta A; Ferguson S; Gillespie S, 2018, HappyBrackets V2, Open source platform for coding audio and media programs on remote devices, Published: 13 February 2018, Software / Code

Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance)

Bown O, 2023, Publication: Tangents Timeslips & Chimeras album tour, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance)

Bown O; Loke L; Fraietta A; Bray L; Ferguson S; Packham K, 2018, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia, Publication: So Predictable!?, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wZrVDUnoVE

Bown O; Lim-Klumpes A; Hollo P; Dorrian E; Ahmad S, 2018, 2018 dates: WED 28 MAR Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne, VIC; SUN 1 APR Leadbelly, Newtown, NSW; SAT 14 – SUN 15 JULY Bello Winter Music, Bellingen, NSW; THURS 19 JULY The Gasometer, Melbourne, VIC; FRI 20 JULY The Gasometer, Melbourne, VIC; SAT 21 JULY Hotel Metro, Adelaide, SA; SUN 22 JULY The Rosemount, Perth, WA; WED 25 JULY Doo Bop Jazz Bar, Brisbane, QLD; SAT 28 JULY Venue 505, Sydney, NSW; FRI 3 AUG The Street Theatre, Canberra, ACT; SAT 4 AUG Rad Bar, Wollongong, NSW; SAT 1 SEPT The Metropole, Katoomba, NSW, Publication: Tangents - New Bodies album live improvised performances, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), http://aaabackstage.com/tangents-new-bodies-tour/

Bown O; Hayward C, 2017, Publication: Performance with Zamyatin (software) and Charles Hayward (drummer), special studio session for BBC Radio 3 Late Junction., Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m4ty7

Bown O; Redgate C, 2017, Tempo Reale, Florence, Publication: Performance with Zamyatin (by proxy) at Tempo Reale, Florence, Italy, with Chris Redgate., Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), http://www.temporeale.it/programma-2017/christopher-redgate-craig-vear-oboe.html

Bown O; Lim-Klumpes A; Ahmad S; Hollo P; Dorian E, 2017, Rhythmic Seed Festival, Byron Bay; Music By the Sea Festival, Brisbane; The Golden Age Cinema, Sydney; The Factory Theatre, Sydney; Womadelaide, Adelade; City Recital Hall, Sydney; Waywards; Sydney., Publication: Tangents - Stateless album live improvised performances 2016-2017, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), https://archive.womadelaide.com.au/2017/program.html

Bown O; Nichols J; Van Gelder P; Priest G; Altman L; Smith T; Whillas A, 2015, Seymour Centre, Vivid Festival, Sydney, Publication: Infosthetic Orchestra, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance)

Music Compositions

Bown O, 2021, Timeslips and Chimeras, publication category: Music Compositions

Shave J; Hill C; Wright B; Uitdengebord S; Pegram C; Bown O, 2020, Beautiful the World, publication category: Music Compositions, https://www.vprobroadcast.com/titles/ai-songcontest/articles/australia-wins-ai-song-contest.html

Bown O; Antony R; Liam B; Garth P, 2019, Murmuration, publication category: Music Compositions, https://smoca.org/exhibition/murmuration/

Rowe A; Bown O; Klein E, 2018, Wave, publication category: Music Compositions, http://www.oceanoflight.net/blog/portfolio/wave/

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