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Music Seminar in Emergent Interactive Systems Emergent
Interactive Structures in Music explores properties of emergence
and how these systems can be applied in music. The seminar looks
at the design of complex interactive systems that yield patterned
behavior and considers how to compose the temporal evolution of
this behavior. In particular we deal with virtual and physical structures
that interact in real time with human and environmental input. The
class will collaborate closely with Jason Johnson's Robotic Ecologies
Lab (ARCH 562) in the Architecture School. We will also interact
with my MICE (Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble) Orchestra in
the 200-person Digital Sound Art Composition class (MUSI 235). |
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materials
collab
site for robotics (click)
our books
(click to order)
Loy,
Musimathics vol 1: I like this book because it views music as
physical and object-based. It is based in math and this common language
will facilitate our collaboration with the architects. The architects
will read chapters 1-3 and we will read 4-5 on the Physical and Geometrical
Basis of Sound.
Steven
Johnson's "Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities
and software" will help frame our discussion of emergence as we compose
musical systems and physical spaces.
mission
work collaboratively to develop performative instruments that sense, compute and respond to emergent atmospheric inputs.
read about the robotics ecology lab here
design swarm logic programs using a massive network of intelligent agents.
rethink approaches to composition in terms of bottom-up organization: simplicity/complexity dialectics, data quantity, randomness and adaptation, material/form interaction.
syllabus
week 1: discussion on music compositions: Da Capo pieces, musical structure, etc.
week
2: presentatations with Robotic Ecologies Lab in the Architecture
School
Choose one image corresponding to a short excerpt of your music (score,
visualization, etc).
week
3-4, project 1: technoscrap
interactive BEAMS instruments using environmental interaction to produce
sound. They store up energy then perform something!
week 5: composition as slime mold (discussion of Johnson book)
project 2: MICE: create an experiment using data from 100+ networked computers and processing it.
project 3: Interactive emergent systems responding to ecological input. collaboration with architecture students.
discussion: emergent composition analysis and discussion
final: review showings