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Head of Computer Music Research Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth Portland Square B326 Drake Circus Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA United Kingdom Email: eduardo.miranda@plymouth.ac.uk http://neuromusic.soc.plymouth.ac.uk |
Dr. Eduardo Reck Miranda is a leading research scientist and a composer of international reputation. In 1991, he received an MSc in Music Technology from the University of York and went on to the University of
Edinburgh, where in 1994 he obtained his PhD in Music with important contributions in the fields of Music and Artificial Intelligence. In 1992 he studied computer music at ZKM (Center for Art and Media), in
Karlsruhe, Germany and in 1994 he was awarded a research fellowship at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), where he developed Chaosynth, an innovative granular synthesis software that uses
evolutionary computing techniques for generating complex sound spectra. In 1995 he joined the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow, where he formed a research group to conduct
interdisciplinary research in the field of computer-aided musical composition systems. In 1998, he moved to France, to take up a research position at Sony Computer Science Laboratory, where he conducted
research aimed at gaining a better understanding of the fundamental cognitive mechanisms employed in sound-based communication systems, with particular focus on the evolution of the human ability to speak
and the role of our musical capacity in the development of spoken languages. Before taking up his present post at the University of Plymouth in 2003, Dr. Miranda authored patents in the field of speech
processing and made important contributions in the fields of speech synthesis, evolutionary music and cognitive neural modelling. His compositions have been broadcast and performed in prestigious concerts
and festivals worldwide, including Festival Mßsica Viva (Lisbon, 1999, 2000, 2003), Computer Music Festival in Seoul (Seoul, 1998, 1999, 2001) and International Computer Music Conference
(Gothenburg 2002, Hong Kong 1996), to cite but a few. His music has won prizes and distinctions in Brazil, France and Italy.
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