Blocking Behaviours concerns the real-time interpretation of two simulations of complex behaviour through an agent-based system. The simulations enforce a way of thinking that revolves around balancing behaviours. An attitude that considers musical output as something that emerges from an interaction with an autonomous system.

The simulation acts as a generative, rule-based system producing output that is subject to different kinds of observation algorithms. The idea is that evolving processes are set in motion where the creator/composer becomes an observer of various developments. The output can not always be controlled in detail but is instead interpreted and further processed. The interpretation involves a mapping between different modes of representation in order to simplify or combine. In Blocking Behaviours the idea is to explore the boundary of generative behaviour, control and and direct access to computer sound synthesis.

Blocking Behaviours premiered during the ICLC (International Conference on Live Coding) in April 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQ1mNvPo9k&t=784s 

https://soundcloud.com/bjarni/blocking-behaviours-iclc-example

Blocking Behaviours (excerpt)

Untitled #7

16 bit stereo WAV format
44.1 kHz sampling rate

street repairs in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal)

recorded on 2023/05/23

using a Zoom H4n

Heavy Machinery 03

Concentrating on random processes, Formfaktor offers eight extracts in the field of experimental composition. 
Each individual tracks was created using a generative patched Serge modular system and is an excerpt from longer recordings lasting up to several hours. 
Formfaktor is a further step in the direction of generative music - a continuous sound genesis with no beginning, no end.

Concept and production: Thomas Breuer, 2024

formfaktor

formfaktor 2

formfaktor 1

formfaktor 3

formfaktor 7

Live Premiere einer neuen Komposition bei der Finissage der 
"eat, sleep, eat. exist slowly, softly, like these trees[...]" 
Ausstellung im "Das Hinterhofstudio" Off-Space in Karlsruhe.

Danke an alle die da waren und vor allem an Irma Chacall für die Einladung.

Im Wald da sind die.... Pt.II

Then She Reaches For The Gun was a one off project, bringing together more than 50 artists from across the globe, releasing an album in late 2022  https://nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-vociferous-mapping-of-your-unlikely-future   But it was so much fun we are back for more.

The following Artists appear on this track :
Angostura Elwar -  2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano 
Ambient Annie    -  Electronic
Banalytic  - Noise 
Chicago Word Brigade - Metal Electronica
Dane Renshaw  - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby              -  Piano/Voice  
JZsuperstar - Doors/Keyboards/Water 
Libby Laksmi   -   Jazzy Loops      
Oberlin   -   Electric Guitar
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Funk/Keyboards
Phil Bywater - Saxophone/Voice
Rosin Dust - Field Recordings/Saw/Violin
Robert Jefferson - Percussion
Wivresse - Electronica/Vocals
Mat Ward - Noise/Bass Guitar/Voice/Arrangement

Then She Reaches For The Gun - This Isn't Even Creating A Sense Of Space

Created by Steve Barsotti and Eric Leonardson at Experimental Sound Studio 1998. Engineered by Lou Mallozzi. Released on CD "rarebit," 2008. Mimeomeme/Transparency CD0125.

Rarebit

Near And Distant Relations

The basis of the piece are 559 measured values of my systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as the pulse in the period from July 4th to December 31st 2020. Using MAX 8 (https://cycling74.com/products/max), the numerical values were transferred into midi notes and assigned to three different self-programmed synthesizer tracks of Madrona Labs Aalto (https://madronalabs.com/products/aalto). Fracture XT from Glitchmachines (https://glitchmachines.com/products/fxt/) acts as effect.

Hypertonium_2/2020

{experimental} electronic sounds & music |

modular - analog - digital - hybrid

Hypertonium_2/2020

banalytic

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