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Two years later (1991) at the KlangArt Festival in Osnabrück (Germany), Clarence Barlow explaned us his revolutionary software AUTOBUSK (Pitch and Rhythm Generator). At that time, generating new compositions by the computer was a very innovative item. Clarence Barlow (born Calcutta) switched several years between two towns: Amsterdam (NL) and Cologne (Germany). His name is related to the Institute of Sonology (Netherlands) and to the Contemporary Music Studio Gimik (Germany). He teached composition in The Hague and, after teaching composition for more as twenty years in The Hague, he swapped his computer music course in Cologne, for Porto (Portugal). Recently, Clarence has removed to California where he teaches at the University of California in Santa Barbara (USA). P-ART |
It was
12 October 1989 on the Computer Music Festival (Brussels) that
Clarence BARLOW appeared on "my" stage. When he started
to "play" his "Variazone e un pianoforte meccanino"
on the Yahama Disklavier, the piano played on itself while the
pianist, from a distance to the piano-in-action, was only sitting
in an old sofa. After a while he went at the piano and simulated
the real play without touching the keys. Gradually he started
to interact with the improvising piano conducted by the computer. 
Click for my contribution to the DVD "
