Audio Samples

Excerpts of compositions:

Instrument Landscape #3 [mp3]
2'00', 2.3 MB
Source recordings: Andrew Ross

Decent: The Deep [mp3]
1'44", 1.2 MB

Oboe Additive [mp3]
2'00", 1.4 MB
Improvisation by Peter Mcilwain and Andrew Ross

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Research

This page will present thoughts on research and my research objectives. There will be an outline of research projects as well as a publications list.

current project Nodal

Nodal Movie

Publications

McCormack, J., McIlwain, P., Lane, A. & Dorin, A. "Generative Composition with Nodal, in Workshop on Music and Artificial Life (part of ECAL 2007), E.R. Miranda (ed.) , Lisbon, Portugal, 2007. [pdf]

McIlwain, P., McCormack, J., Lane, A. & Dorin, A."Composing With Nodal Networks", in Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC), Haines (ed.), ACMA, Fitzroy, Australia 2006, pp. 101-7. [pdf]

McIlwain, P. & McCormack, J. "Design Issues in Musical Composition Networks", in Proceedings of the Australiasian Computer Music Conference 2005, Opie, T. and Brown, A. (eds), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. 12 - 14 July 2005, pp. 96-101. [pdf]

McIlwain, P. & Doornbusch, P. "Integrating Spatial Parameters in Musical Composition ", in Proceedings of the Australiasian Computer Music Conference 2003, Vickery (ed), Edith Cowan, Perth, Australia. 5 - 7 July 2003, pp. 75-80.

McIlwain, P. "A Survey of Software Designs from the Sonic Art Group", in Proceedings of the Australiasian Computer Music Conference 2002, Doornbusch(ed), RMIT University and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia. 6 - 8 July 2002, pp. 81-89. [pdf]

McIlwain, P. "Spatialised Sound: the listener's perspective", in Proceedings of the Australiasian Computer Music Conference 2001, Monro (ed), University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia. 12 - 14 July 2001, pp. 57-66. [pdf]

McIlwain, P.A., A. Pietsch “Spatio-temporal Patterning in Computer Generated Music: A Nodal Network Approach” Proceedings of the International Computer Music Association Conference 1996 ICMA, San Francisco. pp. 312-15

Mcilwain, P. "The Yuri Program: Computer Generated Music for Multispeaker Sound Systems ", Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference 1995 . Stainsby (Ed.), 1995, ACMA, Fitzroy, Australia, pp. 144-52.