The hypothesis of this interaction research project is that it can be stimulating for experimental musicians to confront a system which ‘opposes’ their musical style. The ‘contrary motion’ of the title is the name of a MIDI-based realtime musical software agent which uses machine listening to establish the musical context, and thereby chooses its own responses to differentiate its position from...

The Arabic language is the most luxurious in which Holy Qur’an was revealed, and words of God its meanings can only be understood by understanding secrets language, rules terminology, when extracting some poetic verses that contradict well-known rule. Some them may express something abnormal, others same thing as being rare, or necessarily poetic, so I wanted to understand what meant these term...