Future Karaoke
Ryan Conway 3 Apr 2008

The Mind Candies were out in force on the 1st April, with a group of us attending "Future Karaoke", an evening of short talks on art, music, philosophy and technology.

Amongst the various presenters, three Mind Candies took the stage to present their own short talks on a variety of topics.

James led us down the tech avenue with his talk on the infamous Halting Problem, resulting in a mini debate between members of the audience regarding quantum computing and the P=NP Problem.

Next up was Alastair with his talk entitled "Sonarboria: A Walk Through the Forest of Generative Music", which delved into the realm of algorithmic composition of music, and included an impressive live demonstration of the techniques.

Dr. Mike continued the generative music theme with his talk entitled "The Generation Game" which also touched on the philosophical side of automatic composition, sparking a discussion on whether computers will ever truly be capable of injecting "feeling" into music.

With a variety of other talks including poetry, glitch aesthetics, synthesisers, APIs, and game design the evening proved to be a real success, ending with the first UK gig of The Tenorions, the first Tenori-On band in the world.