Andreas Raptopoulos

Andreas started working on reactive music systems in 1998, while studying at the Royal College of Art; his first device, called the Sound Curtain, was a sound-sensing, sound-emitting curtain, which effected a real-time noise-to-music transformation, using filters and effects tuned by ambient noise. From 1999 onwards, he worked on more sophisticated systems, employing generative algorithms based on principles of human auditory perception. He set up various teams with programmers, composers, sound artists and auditory scientists and developed a programmable algorithmic composition engine, called 'a3', that listens and responds to environmental sound using listening algorithms based on psycho-acoustic modeling. He holds various patents on the technology.

In 2006, Andreas co-founded FutureAcoustic with the Royal College of Art to bring 'a3' to the market. In December 2008, FutureAcoustic launched its first reactive sound product, called FutureSound, on the iPhone platform, featuring compositions from David Toop and Scanner.

www.futureacoustic.com
www.futureacoustic.com/futuresound