Contact for enquiries, gig/performance bookings, correspondence : email dave [at] noyzelab [dot] com
ABOUT NOYZELAB : Dave Burraston is a generative artist/scientist involved in technology and electronic music since the late 70s. After studying and playing classical piano for 10 years from the age of 6 to 16, he was increasingly interested in the possibilities of using electronics / computers in his own music. From the early 80's on he has investigated cellular automata, chaos, fractals and other mathematical systems for his artistic ends using such ancient machines as the Acorn Archimedes, BBC Micro, Dragon 64, Vic 20, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST, as well as contemporary machines (Mac, PC, SGI) and analogue computers. Since these early experiments he has worked with collaborators as diverse as Alan Lamb, MIT Media Lab, Aphex Twin, WIRED Lab and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Dave had an innovative role in the foremost UK telco’s R&D laboratory in diverse areas such as Artificial Life and Virtual Reality. His PhD thesis (Generative Music & Cellular Automata) developed fundamental new concepts, arising out of generative music practice, to a key problem in complex systems. Publisher VDM Verlag accepted his PhD for publication as a monograph in 2009. The international peer reviewed Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) voted his PhD top among all submitted abstracts in the 1st half of 2007 because of its special relevance to art/science. Also in 2007 he received a complimentary copy of Wolfram Research's new Mathematica 6 software. He is now recognised as a leading practitioner and theorist in the field of generative music, producing both peer reviewed publications and musical compositions. His future work is aimed at tackling more key questions in complex systems from a creative practice-based perspective, using both natural and artificial complex systems. These key questions address, for example, the definition of randomness, structure and high level descriptions of information processing in complex systems. He is also a peer reviewer for the Leonardo Journal, Leonardo Music Journal, Computer Music Journal and is on the editorial board of Leonardo Transactions. In January 2008 Dave became a member of the Australia Research Council funded initiative COSNET (Complex Open Systems Research Network).
Dave maintains his own independent analogue/digital research studio called Noyzelab. He has performed music and video sets around the world at a wide variety of events. He has worked on many collaborative projects with artists and scientists around the world. Dave's CV is available here
Current
collaborators include :
Alan
Lamb (Australian Sound Artist) ((More info on Alan can be found -> here!!))
Andrew Wuensche / DDLab
(Cellular Automata Scientist/Author)
Sarah Last (Australian
Artist/Curator) and WIRED Lab
Warren Burt (American/Australian
Sound Artist) & John Dunn
(Genetic Music Composition and Algorithmic Arts Software)
Garry Bradbury
(Australian Electronic Music Pioneer formerly with Severed Heads)
Dave Noyze / Bryen Telko on myspace
This website & noyze.com copyright Dave Burraston 2009