MusicCreatures - exchage:listen:exchange

Marc Downie
Bruce Blumberg

 
     
This work draws parallels between musical problems and the problems of motor control and learning in synthetic characters. This work points towards a system in which characters movements are shaped (by training) in real-time and consequently, by creating music with the resulting system, we are able to perform similar training and shaping within a musical domain.

This work is an application of a synthetic character metaphor to the production of music. Presented here is a small colony of creatures whose virtual bodies produce sound. Played out in a spatial representation, passages of music are exchanged between the creatures and consequently distorted retrograde variations and repeated subsegments are swapped back and forth in an accidental, recombinant evolution.

 
 
 
 
Projects
 
2002-2003
Dobie T. Coyote
 
2001
alpha wolf
Rover@Home
 
2000
Duncan the
Highland Terrier / Sheep|Dog:
Trial by Eire

MusicCreatures - exchange:
listen:
exchange

 
1999
(void*)
sand:stone
Rufus
 
1998
swamped!