Simple generative piece for an orchestra of any size.

Performed at the Center For New Music - San Francisco, 2013.

DRIFT

From Greg Fox's Mitral Transmission
Released 2/18/2014

http://datagarden.org/mitral-transmission

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Generative audio piece created through code and user interaction in which the movement and bustle of the flock of autonomous agents generates its own musical score.

Processing + Chuck + OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol.

The physical features of the agents (velocity, acceleration and position in the space) and  the forces generated by the vectorial field which shakes them are some of the parameters used in the audio synthesis.

The generative instruments and sinusoidal waves used for the interpretation of the sound space, their frequencies and rhythms change according to the geometrical pattern adopted by the flock of agents.

The code that rules the behaviour of the flock of agents and the agitator vectorial field sends messages through the OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol to a code developed using Chuck as the programming language for real-time sound synthesis and the music creation of the sound space.

This audio piece was used in the soundtrack of AAAC (An Autonomous Agents Choreo), an abstract generative animation video created through code and user interaction in which a flock of autonomous agents governed by physical laws of attraction-repulsion is subjected to the will of a geometric choreography.

Watch AAAC on: https://vimeo.com/176714277/



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AAAC - SoundTrack (Melody 01)



Generative audio piece created through code and user interaction in which the movement and bustle of the flock of autonomous agents generates its own musical score.

Processing + Chuck + OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol.

The physical features of the agents (velocity, acceleration and position in the space) and the forces generated by the vectorial field which shakes them are some of the parameters used in the audio synthesis.

The generative instruments and sinusoidal waves used for the interpretation of the sound space, their frequencies and rhythms change according to the geometrical pattern adopted by the flock of agents.

The code that rules the behaviour of the flock of agents and the agitator vectorial field sends messages through the OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol to a code developed using Chuck as the programming language for real-time sound synthesis and the music creation of the sound space.

This audio piece was used in the soundtrack of AAAC (An Autonomous Agents Choreo), an abstract generative animation video created through code and user interaction in which a flock of autonomous agents governed by physical laws of attraction-repulsion is subjected to the will of a geometric choreography.

Watch AAAC on: vimeo.com/176714277/

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AAC - SoundTrack (Melody 02)

AAC - SoundTrack (Melody 03)

Generative audio soundtrack of AAAC (An Autonomous Agent Choreo). It was created through code and user interaction in which the movement and bustle of the flock of autonomous agents generates its own musical score.

Processing + Chuck + OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol.

The physical features of the agents (velocity, acceleration and position in the space) and the forces generated by the vectorial field which shakes them are some of the parameters used in the audio synthesis.

The generative instruments and sinusoidal waves used for the interpretation of the sound space, their frequencies and rhythms change according to the geometrical pattern adopted by the flock of agents.

The code that rules the behaviour of the flock of agents and the agitator vectorial field sends messages through the OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol to a code developed using Chuck as the programming language for real-time sound synthesis and the music creation of the sound space.

This audio piece was used in the soundtrack of AAAC (An Autonomous Agents Choreo), an abstract generative animation video created through code and user interaction in which a flock of autonomous agents governed by physical laws of attraction-repulsion is subjected to the will of a geometric choreography.

Watch AAAC on: vimeo.com/176714277/

coderspaghetti.wordpress.com/

AAAC (An Autonomous Agent Choreo) - Soundtrack

No Last Word is the 9th track from NetWorks 3: Thresholds, the entire album can be heard on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, etc. or purchased on Bandcamp: shawnbell.bandcamp.com/album/networks-3-thresholds

NetWorks is both a music-generating (MIDI-data-generating) program and a body of musical work. It is based on artificial-life, complex adaptive systems research and the Honing Theory of creativity. NetWorks uses a hierarchical, scale-free network to generate music that can range from orderly to chaotic. At the ‘edge of chaos’ it generates patterns that exhibit emergent complexity through coherent musical development at low, mid and high levels of musical organization, and often suggests a sense of direction through goal seeking behaviours.

Emergence, in the NetWorks program, is achieved, not through Darwinian evolutionary processes, but through a far older form of evolution called communal exchange. “There is extensive evidence that for the first several million years of its existence life on earth evolved through communal exchange of components amongst self-organizing autocatalytic protocells, prior to establishment of a genetic code, and only once a RNA-based self-assembly code was in place did life evolve through natural selection. … the last century’s emphasis on natural selection in evolutionary theory is not warranted by current research; even today, variation-selection is, quantitatively at least, not the dominant evolutionary process.” (L. Gabora, in press).

There are no selective processes (fitness functions) within NetWorks, so if an output stream is perceived to “evolve” it can then be said to originate solely through communal exchange.

Selective processes occur only between the interaction of the musician-programmer and the NetWorks program, when the musician-programmer (1) generates and evaluates network architectures, rule-sets and mappings, (2) orchestrates, mixes, and masters the most aesthetically pleasing instances of these outputs and (3) tweaks and expands the program itself.

In general, the sounds chosen to manifest the musical patterns discovered by the network attempt to reflect the mystery and wonder that virtually unlimited diversity can come from such simple interactive models. When mapping patterns to sound, an effort is made to preserve the integrity of the patterns rather than obfuscate them with complex synthetic textures or other effects that are readily available during mixing.

Since the MIDI data of NetWorks is computer-generated, sampled acoustic instruments are often used to give the music a “human feel”, and to allow the listener to relate and compare the self-organizing patterns to known genres.

Headphone listening is recommended.

This was a preliminary mix. The final mix is available on Bandcamp: https://shawnbell.bandcamp.com/album/networks-3-thresholds

Album artwork evolved using SBart4 by Unemi Tatsuo.

NetWorks 3: Thresholds

No Last Word

Spaghetti Coder is a multimedia project by Toni Mitjanit in the field of Generative Art in order to explore new boundaries in audiovisual expression. It is focused on producing amazing sounds, graphics and animations using creative coding.

AAC - SoundTrack (Melody 03)

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