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)

Live recording (excerpt) of 'Wildfires' as performed at the WFS festival on June 5th, 2022 in the New Music Lab at Sonology. 

Stereo reduction from the 192 speakers used during the performance.

Wildfires - (Live WFS, excerpt)

Trade Winds

I will confess that I like to imagine that he completed it, that I read the Quixote—all of the Quixote—as if it had been conceived by Menard.
While reading chapter XXVI of the Quixote, a chapter not “attempted” by Pierre Menard, he paused at the poetic phrase “The nymphs of the rivers, the sorrowful and moist Echo,” and recognized there the style and voice of Menard.

This is a brief excerpt from a beautiful story by Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, included in the short story collection "Ficciones". The story is presented as a critical essay on Pierre Menard, a 20th-century French writer who sets out to rewrite Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote". However, Menard does not simply want to translate or imitate the work; his goal is to create some chapters of Cervantes' novel word for word as if they had been written by himself, Pierre Menard, in his own historical and cultural context.
Menard does not seek to copy Cervantes but to recreate the mental process that led Cervantes to write "Don Quixote". He spends years immersing himself in the world of the 17th century, studying the language and Spanish culture of the time, and finally succeeds in producing some passages of "Don Quixote" identical to the originals.
My idea for this piece was precisely to reconstruct the entire inferential process that led an author like Bjarni Gunnarsson to conceive his compositional idea. To meticulously reconstruct his sound through Super Collider, Max, and modular synthesis to imagine a new composition that could give the impression of having been conceived by Gunnarsson himself.

Artwork by Avamastro

Le Ninfe Dei Fiumi, La Dolorosa E Umida Eco

Jack Sapienza: Italy's sonic architect of experimental beats.
In 2022, he unleashed a revolutionary symphony, merging cutting-edge electronic tunes with mind-bending 3D visuals alongside artist Andrea Dipa. Since 2012, RKH Studio has been the pulsating heart of Jack's electronic mastery, shaping the forefront of Italy's avant-garde music scene

http://www.youtube.com/user/dropstozerosound
https://www.instagram.com/jack_sapienza/
https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/artist/5iZW5E9q0Iv8t0Phtp887K?si=3VcRNbaFRheeQVXj5If7WQ
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Le Ninfe Dei Fiumi, La Dolorosa E Umida Eco

Jack Sapienza

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