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Al Biles

Jazz Trumpeter & Creator of GenJam

Author: genjamguy

Professor Emeritus of Interactive Games and Media at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Inventor of GenJam, the Genetic Jammer, an evolutionary computation based real-time interactive jazz improvisation system. I'm retired from RIT, but not from performing (with people as well as with GenJam), making things (like tunes and arrangements), and generally not having enough hours in the day to get to everything.

A Face in the Crowd and November 3rd

Posted on January 8, 2020 by genjamguy

Yesterday I watched A Face in the Crowd (1957) on Turner Classic Movies (TCM), and I was struck once again… Read more A Face in the Crowd and November 3rd

Letting Go

Posted on August 22, 2019 by genjamguy

Well, this website’s basically done, but I’m still polishing, which is basically a restatement of the old 80-20 rule: you… Read more Letting Go

3..2..1..Launch!

Posted on July 28, 2019July 28, 2019 by genjamguy

I’m hereby launching this long-overdue replacement of my venerable, retro, some would say brutalist website, which I starting in the… Read more 3..2..1..Launch!

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