changed: - (Germany) Presentation/Talk: * "Music as a Formal Language: Finite State Automata and Pd" ( "paper":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/pubs/pdconv04.pdf , "slides":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/pubs/pdconv04talk.pdf ) Concert/Performance: "Hour of Babble" *(well, probably not that long, really)* * Nigh unto incessant live-generated (mostly) synthetic chatter converging to chaos. Bio: * Developer of open-source software for audio and language processing, * Author of: * "ratts":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/pd/ratts.tar.gz , "Realtime Analogue Text-To-Speech" external library for Pd, based on Nick Ing-Simmons' "rsynth":ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/synthesis/rsynth-2.0.tar.gz . * "pd-gfsm":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/pd/pd-gfsm.tar.gz , finite-state machine external library based on the "gfsm":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/gfsm C library. * various "other stuff":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/pd * Generally underspecified aural hacker. Academic Bio: - **2003-2004** Instructor and PhD student, Institute for Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany - **2002-2003** Research Assistant, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences - **1996-2002** *Diplom* Computational Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany - **1992-1996** BA Philosophy, Northwestern University, USA