Armands Strazds

Armands Strazds
Born (1970-03-10) March 10, 1970
Riga, Latvia
Occupation
Website www.strazds.com

Armands Strazds (born March 10, 1970 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian composer, software developer, education researcher and political activist.

He studied composition with Gederts Ramans at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and with Friedhelm Döhl at the Lübeck Academy of Music, where he also studied computer music with Dirk Reith.[1] His PhD studies with Frieder Nake at University of Bremen are on theory of signs, and with Atis Kapenieks at Riga Technical University were on new learning technologies. He and Kapenieks have published several papers in the area.[2]

Armands Strazds is the developer of the algorithmic composition systems, Digital Winds (1995),[3] Hymnica (2003) and Suranadira (Heaven's River, 2014). Plays with his music were performed by the National Theater of Latvia (Bezkaunīgie veči, 1990 and Heda Gablere, 1991) and The New Riga Theater (Tālāk, 2005). Since 1990, many of his compositions for theatre drama, including Pulss (Pulse) and Es mīlēju viņu (I loved him) were broadcast on Latvian national radio.[4]

Strazds (together with Modris Tenisons) is the creator of the Zime Project[5] which was the central exhibit of the Latvia Pavilion at Expo 2000.[6] Zimes, from the Latvian word for "sign", are coloured graphic patterns generated by the computer encryption of texts, pictures, or sounds. During the course of Expo 2000, 300,000 visitors to the Latvia Pavilion generated their personal zimes, including the (then) President of Latvia, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga.[7][8]

Strazds is founder of the RTFL think tank (2008), and editor of the "Latvia Renewed" economic development program, ISBN 978-9984-49-055-7, Riga 2010. His attempt to found a social-democratic party in Latvia on 15 December 2012 failed.[9]

Strazds is founder of the IEEE Latvia Section (2008) and IEEE Education Society Latvia Chapter.

Strazds is author of the Golden Book sequence  A248646.[10][11]

Selected compositions

Listening

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Pupa, Guntars (2004)
  2. ↑ e.g. A. Strazds, A. Kapenieks, (2007) "A new automated method of e-learner's satisfaction measurement", International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, Vol. 2, No. 2; B. Zuga, I. Slaidins, A. Kapenieks and A. Strazds (2006) "M-learning and Mobile Knowledge Management: Similarities and Differences", International Journal of Computing & Information Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 2.
  3. ↑ Gourley, David et al. (2002) p. 58.
  4. ↑ Radio Theatre Repertory Archives, Latvijas Radio. Accessed 20 September 2008
  5. ↑ The Zime Project Official site. Accessed 20 September 2008
  6. ↑ Profile, www.expo2000.de (in German). Accessed 20 September 2008
  7. ↑ National Pavilions 98.eu:Expo 2000. Accessed 20 September 2008.
  8. ↑ Photographs of President Vīķe-Freiberga generating her personal zime. Zime Project Official site. Accessed 20 September 2008.
  9. ↑ Panorama National Television of Latvia, LSM (in Latvian). Accessed 31 Mai 2015
  10. ↑ The Golden Book sequence OEIS.org. Accessed 24 October 2014
  11. ↑ The Golden Book's Level Leap Sequence OEIS.org. Accessed 31 March 2015

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