●• Experimental music •●

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)

https://soundcloud.com/neo-dymium

Our third release of 2024 sees the arrival of Neo Dymium, on the label.

Four metallic shards of electronic music . Hoovering up influences from electro, techno, IDM, trance, dub and breaks. This vortex of noise pulls and pushes the listener in all manner of directions, as it spirals around the speakers.

Dense and precise rhythms climb their way over and under the stocky bass and razor sharp synth lines, on the more club orientated tracks. Gritty but emotive.

While the closing track brings down the curtain with a textured and glitch laden thump. Chewed up soundscapes fusing with murky beats. Squeaking and squirming its way through a dark tunnel before finally twisting its way out to give us a corrosive finale and a hefty full stop on the debut of Neo Dymium. 

Available : https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/nd-fe-b-bc084

Neo Dymium - Magneticisque (from the "Nd-Fe-B" EP)

https://vectorfield75.bandcamp.com/album/data-bloom-ep
Data Bloom Ep
mixed, mastered by vector field
nov.2024
pic: Ryutaro Uozumi

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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.