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)

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In the continuously evolving landscape of electronic music, it's always fun to stumble upon a new and interesting sound-fusion to contrast the norm. Today, we're excited to spotlight a release & track that does just that. Hailing from Glasgow, the label Bricolage recently started working closer with us, and in their next iteration, the label have offered some more musical craftsmanship from the talented Wilks, in the form of his latest EP, "Left Hand Drive".

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Focussing

I split the original track by Ted Lewis into numerous clips, then rearranged them with the longer ones at the beginning & the shorter ones towards the end. The resulting track was gradually slowed down, something like an old gramophone winding down, then subjected to some detuning, delay & reverb.

More on the 660th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Louis Blues St. — The Assignment: Break a public domain song into parts and reorganize them — at https://disquiet.com/0660/

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⚠️This piece is made for ambisonic systems, and converted for headphones⚠️

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Acousmatic music from the MSC487 class serves as the fifth project among five total projects. [Electroacoustic Experiments 5/5]

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Tunnels (2025) is a piece about shifting realities and spaces. Its story involves an entangled mixture of real and dream-like events.

The piece/story has 2 layers. The first layer is a fictional story about an exploration trip to the underground. After various events (Burried Forest), the main character loses its light source in dark tunnels and blindly navigates to the unknown. He crosses lakes, sees crystal geodes, and hears earthquakes and collapsation. As he tries to find any light source, he finds himself in weirder situations. The physicality of the piece; elemental usage (water, earth, glass...), frequency usage, reverberation, etc is gathered around this reality.

The second layer is about my journey through this semester. The story contains important events from my life, thoughts, feelings, and such. It functions as a diary to me. This personal reality decides my sound material (car, train, sea), musicality (mood), dynamics, and pace, alongside some scenery connected with the story layer.

2 layers have their accented, dedicated sections in the form/structure of the piece. For example, a train sound is ultimately connected with the real life. However, they morph into each other continuously (for example it turns into a rumble, a quake). Thus, they create a unique and alternative story we can call a 3rd layer; the Masking layer. A layer that has petrified as audio, lost its composer's heritage and merged with the listener's story. Enjoy.

Tunnels (Binaural Stereo) (Listen With Headphones)

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Bjarni Gunnarsson is a composer and programmer whose recent work involves machine listening, database-driven recomposition, real-time network algorithms, and parametric synthesis.

His music has been presented at ICMC, ICLC, SMC, and xCoAx, and performed at festivals including Tectonics, Sonar, Rewire, and Présences Électroniques. Releases include Cendres, Processes & Potentials, UPICS, and Safn 2006–2009, on labels such as SUPERPANG, 3LEAVES, and Tartaruga. 

He teaches algorithmic composition and computer music at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. He studied computer science at the University of Reykjavík, composition at CCMIX with Gerard Pape, Trevor Wishart, and Curtis Roads, and completed his master’s at Sonology under Paul Berg, Kees Tazelaar, and Richard Barrett.

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