Lizzie Wilson Research Page

🎓 PhD

My PhD will soon be available.

My thesis explores the integration of autonomous agents into live coding systems to co-create music with human performers based on affective response, aiming to enhance musical expression and collaboration between humans and machines. By developing prototypes and conducting experiments, the studies conducted demonstrate that autonomous agents can facilitate the emergence of new musical ideas and patterns. The research outlines the creation of an Affective Live Coding Autonomous Agent (ALCAA) and a Markovian Agent for code generation (that leverages Haskell's strictly typed system) named Tidal Fuzz, which together form a hybrid system combining affective and computational models for generating expressive music through code manipulation. The thesis also proposes modifications the Consensual Assessment Technique for live coders, as a means of evaluating the creative outcomes of this collaborative process, acknowledging the subjective nature of creativity and ensuring nuanced evaluation.

👩🏻‍🏫 Teaching

I am currently teaching as part of the Creative Computing Institute at University of the Arts London the following courses:

Foundational Methods for Creative Computing One
Critical Studies: The History of Computing and Computational Creativity
Computational Practices: Digital Production (co-taught, with a focus on audio synthesis and manipulation)
Computational Communities and Professional Practices

In the past I have covered the modules: