computermusicblog.com » steelpan http://computermusicblog.com/blog electronic and computer music as it happens Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:37:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 With the Blurred Vision of a Newborn http://computermusicblog.com/blog/2009/11/10/with-the-blurred-vision-of-a-newborn/ http://computermusicblog.com/blog/2009/11/10/with-the-blurred-vision-of-a-newborn/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:11:24 +0000 evan http://computermusicblog.com/blog/?p=258

This piece unites Cage’s conception of graph music with ideas from the field of swarm intelligence. The software uses a graph of notated musical fragments to generate a score in real-time, for live performance. It does this by allowing a swarm of virtual insects to crawl over the graph, choosing new fragments with each move.

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This piece unites Cage’s conception of graph music with ideas from the field of swarm intelligence. The software uses a graph of notated musical fragments to generate a score in real-time, for live performance. It does this by allowing a swarm of virtual insects to crawl over the graph, choosing new fragments with each move.

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