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A workshop in 2009 at Goldsmiths, University of London, with a concert at the
alternative London venue Café OTO, attracted a spectrum of systems which took
part in a series of duets with internationally renowned improvisers.
The future of computer music is surely an exploitation of the creative potential
that intelligent machines may offer, rather than the mundane speeding up of routine
tasks or in menu-driven tools. Ideas that lie broadly under the umbrella of Artifi-
cial Intelligence and Artificial Life will become increasingly adopted by computer
musicians and engineers.
Live Algorithms—performing near you, soon.
Acknowledgements Our thanks to all those who contributed to the Live Algorithms for Music
concerts and symposia, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for initial
network funding (grant GR/T21479/0) and the Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios for hosting
LAM concerts. Oliver Bown's research was funded by the Australian Research Council under
Discovery Project grant DP0877320. We dedicate this chapter to the memory of the late Andrew
Gartland-Jones, in acknowledgement of his encouragement and vision during the early days of the
LAM network.
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