Algorithmic Thumbnails

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  • Jesús Jara López

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/sobre.v8i.25116

Abstract

In the same way that the composer Johan Sebastian Bach used the letters of his last name to create a musical motif (in German “B” is "bemol", “A” is "la", “C” is "do" and “H” is "si natural"), on many other occasions people who are dedicated to creating music have used abstract concepts as a tool to compose. The use of logic, mathematics, geometry or chance have always been present in art, crafts and folklore.

Represented in the form of algorithms, today logic, mathematics and probability are also present in all facets of our lives. More than ever, our current globalized society delegates the making of many daily decisions to algorithms. The amount of information we generate forces us to depend on complex computing systems whose operation, however, we do not socially understand.

With these five miniatures I propose to introduce ourselves into the abstract universe of algorithms to materialize them in the form of music and launch them into the world with the aim of helping to become aware of this reality.

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Author Biography

Jesús Jara López

Diplomado en Ingeniería Informática por la UCM, entre los años 2011 al 2015 vivió en Alemania, donde realizó estudios superiores de tecnología y música. Su trabajo de investigación aborda la educación en creación sonora contemporánea que se recoge en un trabajo final de máster titulado “Educar en otros lenguajes sonoros”. Ha creado el grupo Live Code Mad, ha participado en festivales de creación digital como el Festival EXPLORA (Bilbao), In-Sonora (Madrid), Transmediale (Berlín), AlgoMech (Reino Unido), organizó junto con su equipo la cuarta Conferencia Internacional de Live Coding y actualmente trabaja en la EMMyD «María Dolores Pradera»

Published

2022-07-04

How to Cite

Jara López, J. (2022) “Algorithmic Thumbnails”, SOBRE, 8, pp. 57–63. doi: 10.30827/sobre.v8i.25116.

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