Digital Poesis is a blog by Aaron McLeran, who is currently a PhD student at Media Arts and Technology, UC Santa Barbara. Aaron has a formal background in physics from the University of Notre Dame and physics and music from Kalamazoo College. He worked with composer and producer Brian Eno and Audio Director/Composer Kent Jolly on the generative music for Electronic Art’s SPORE.  In 2008, he gave a presentation with Kent Jolly at the Game Developers Conference on the generative music in Spore. Read about it here.

He is currently studying with composer and computer music theorist, Curtis Roads. While working on a NSF grant to study dictionary-based methods of atomic decomposition, Aaron began development on a prototype interface, Scatter, which decomposes sound into a granular-synthesis model and allows for unique transformations and visualizations of sound.

His PhD work, beginning in summer of 2009, will focus on the areas of integrating structural generative music and synthesis and will hope to work on developing a general theory of micro-aesthetics and perception-based generative music (or so he thinks so now).

Recently he has begun exploring generative visual art and has begun to combine real-time generative graphics and visualizations, synthesis, and music for real-time performance.