Alexis Kirke is a composer and filmmaker known for his interdisciplinary practice. He has been called "the Philip K. Dick of contemporary music". Alexis is British and lives in Plymouth, in South West England. Alexis says he takes his inspiration from both the Arts and from Science/Technology – and has two doctorates – one from each of those Faculties at Plymouth University . In particular, his highest profile work has been motivated by interests in quantum mechanics , marine science , stock markets , and artificial intelligence . Alexis is senior research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at the Plymouth University, and is composer-in-residence for the Plymouth Marine Institute.
16-1117: Kirke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexis Kirke , British composer and filmmaker Álvur Kirke (born 1939), Faroese politician Basil Wharton Kirke (1893–1958), Australian radio executive David Kirke (died 1654), English adventurer, colonizer and governor George Kirke (died 1675), Scottish courtier Gord Kirke (born 1945/1946), Canadian sports and entertainment lawyer Ian Kirke (born 1981), English rugby league footballer Jemima Kirke (born 1985), English-American artist, actress and director Lola Kirke (born 1990), English-American actress and singer-songwriter Percy Kirke (c. 1646–1691), English soldier, son of George Kirke Simon Kirke (born 1949), English rock drummer and songwriter Sir Walter Kirke (1877–1949), English general in WWII See also [ edit ] Kirk (disambiguation) Kirke University, fictional setting of Campus (TV series) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
32-496: A quantum advantage : a teleportation-based multi-agent system where agents use Grover's algorithm to interact with a human musician. Alexis also celebrated the 60th Anniversary of Lennon and McCartney meeting with Come Together . Other projects in recent years include Bat Wars: The Four Awaken , in which a violinist and pianist duet with a live AI-generated script based on characters from iconic movies, Conducting Shakespeare , wherein he remixed Shakespeare live for two actors at
48-607: A wave tank into a giant musical instrument for the opening of the Plymouth Marine Institute building by the Duke of Edinburgh ; and the financial "reality opera" Open Outcry , in which performers trade real money by singing, sponsored by Barclays . Alexis initially gained recognition for his performance Sunlight Symphony , which turned the University of Plymouth's iconic Roland Levinsky Building into
64-499: A flautist. Alexis has collaborated with composers and performers such as John Matthias, Eduardo Reck Miranda , DJ Pierre, Lola Perrin , and Martyn Ware . Alexis' best known film project is the writing, directing, and soundtracking of the short film Many Worlds (2013) – a 15-minute movie about a human version of a Schrodinger's Suicide experiment. The movie has four possible scripts, with four possible endings. All four scripts were filmed, and then bio-signals are collected from
80-461: A mechanical wavemaker, although there are also wind–wave flumes with (additional) wave generation by an air flow over the water – with the flume closed above by a roof above the free surface. The wavemaker frequently consists of a translating or rotating rigid wave board. Modern wavemakers are computer controlled, and can generate besides periodic waves also random waves , solitary waves , wave groups or even tsunami -like wave motion. The wavemaker
96-512: A musical instrument played by the rising sun. His first performance supported by Plymouth Marine Institute was Fast Travel , in which a saxophonist interacted with live artificially-intelligent whale schools. Other prominent works include Cloud Chamber with a violinist playing a duet with subatomic particles in real-time – and Insight in which Alexis (who has the harmless visual condition palinopsia ) simulated his hallucinations live on an iPad , which were turned into sound accompanied by
112-592: A sample of the audience live during the screening; a computer used this data to select live which version of the film is shown at any moment, depending on how bored or interested the audience is at the time. The film has premiered at the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2013, had invited showings in Israel and at BBC Research and Development, and won a Media Innovation Award in 2014. Alexis' second short film in 2017
128-475: A well-suited facility to study near-2DV structures, like cross-sections of a breakwater . Also (3D) constructions providing little blockage to the flow may be tested, e.g. measuring wave forces on vertical cylinders with a diameter much less than the flume width. Wave flumes may be used to study the effects of water waves on coastal structures , offshore structures , sediment transport and other transport phenomena . The waves are most often generated with
144-405: Is a special sort of wave tank: the width of the flume is much less than its length. The generated waves are therefore – more or less – two-dimensional in a vertical plane (2DV), meaning that the orbital flow velocity component in the direction perpendicular to the flume side wall is much smaller than the other two components of the three-dimensional velocity vector . This makes a wave flume
160-426: Is at one end of the wave flume, and at the other end is the construction being tested, or a wave absorber (a beach or special wave absorbing constructions). Often, the side walls contain glass windows, or are completely made of glass, allowing for a clear visual observation of the experiment, and the easy deployment of optical instruments (e.g. by Laser Doppler velocimetry or particle image velocimetry ). In 2014,
176-514: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alexis Kirke Alexis' most recent musical projects have involved the use of controlled quantum dynamics to create quantum computer music. His first in this field was Superposition , a collaboration with the University of Southern California, a live duet between acclaimed Mezzo Soprano Juliette Pochin and the D-Wave quantum annealer installed at USC. Alexis' follow-up performance using
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208-511: The D-Wave was Entangled Brains - for which he developed a computer music system that entangled the brainwave data of two performers wearing EEG headsets. The resulting data from the D-Wave's calculations on the pair's brainwaves was used to drive an electronic music performance. Kirke switched his attention to actual gate-based quantum computers, delivering Teleporting from Westeros , the first live performance utilizing algorithms shown to have
224-461: The Victoria and Albert Museum, based on the real-time bio-signal readings of four audience members; and Remember a Day , which was a collaboration with a lady with Alzheimer's setting her daily plan and medication reminders to music as an aid to memory, and performing the tunes as part of a piece for mezzo-soprano, cello and electronics. Prior to that Alexis created Sound-Wave , wherein he turned
240-455: The tank, an actuator generates waves; the other end usually has a wave-absorbing surface. A similar device is the ripple tank , which is flat and shallow and used for observing patterns of surface waves from above. A wave basin is a wave tank which has a width and length of comparable magnitude, often used for testing ships, offshore structures and three-dimensional models of harbors (and their breakwaters). A wave flume (or wave channel )
256-432: Was "Buddha of Superposition", an 11-minute short that uses innovative visual and sound techniques to take the viewer inside of the experience of psychosis. The film features actor Lois Meleri-Jones. Wave tank A wave tank is a laboratory setup for observing the behavior of surface waves . The typical wave tank is a box filled with liquid , usually water , leaving open or air -filled space on top. At one end of
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