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[microsound] generative concept

I want to stress two things. One that I need to talk to my co-developer about working on the microsound version of code and two that we are both experiencing an extremely busy time period with work. I do not want people to feel frustrated about slow development of the project, mainly becuase we do this in our spare time.
Here is the general concept that we put in our proposal. Rob Braswell and I are earth system scientists and ecologists, so we were coming from that background. Rob though did get his M.S. in physics. There is more and if anyone knows of a grant agency that might be interested in such a work, please let me know.
Ecological computer models and simulations often utilize stochastic properties 

to examine real world phenomena and principles that are inherently complex,

non-linear, or dynamic. Music, both in composition and sound design, has
been shown to benefit from chance operations and indeterminacy, nonlinearity, 

and complexity. Rarely have musicians, scientists, and performers

utilized both composition and sound synthesis techniques in cutting-edge

techniques. With our knowledge and expertise in ecological and

environmental science, we hope to develop a fused compositional and sound

synthesis web-based tool that allows for an online community to compose,

shape, and change a continually evolving soundscape.
We hope to develop this graphical interface to be interactive, allowing the user 

to change parameters and generate a new short audio sequence that uses

both the sound design tools and the compositional program. We hope that

such a feature will be also be used by the electronic music community. Both

the sound design tool and the composition program will be accessed of the

web with little or no advanced programming necessary for utilization.
Our model for accomplishing this includes four phases. First, we generate a genetic algorithm
for composition that has the propensity for change based on different statistical distributions
pertinent to the music temporal scale. Second, we will develop a sound synthesis tools which
incorporates a potentially unlimited number of oscillators, neural networks, and includes the use
of ecological models to generate sound. The structure of such sound synthesis can move and
change in direct relationship to the compositional changes and vice versa. Third, we hope to
transfer existing MATLAB code we have developed into the open source programming language
Octave. To create a web based tool, Flash will be used to develop a user interface for use of
our compositional and sound design tools. We will encourage development and changes to our
code from a potential user community. Finally, we plan to create a streaming continuous
composition available over the internet that has the ability to be shaped by the audience through
the use of our compositional and sound design tools. Model parameters of our compositional
and sound design programs will be recorded with the ability to recreate the continuous musical
composition at any point in time. We also hope to allow the user then to visualize compositional
parameters and manipulate such a fixed set parameter space to develop their own short section 

of musical expression.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bård Harazi Farbu" <bardfarbu@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [microsound] beginning-less universe



Hi Paulo
Again I see your point, I hope.(having to look up half the words in your post in a dictionary i'm not quite certain)
The durations implied were only to give Micheal a idea of what the aplication should be able to handle, nothing absolute.
The breakdown presented was just a description of the theory itself. Simplified in order to have a basic construction to build from.
If you have any concrete suggestions to the breakdown I would be happy if you presented them. 


bård




On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Paulo Mouat wrote:


Repeating processes are not anathema to rhizomes. It all boils down to
the interconnections and multiplicities allowed by the process.

//p
http://www.interdisciplina.org/00.0/
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Bård Harazi Farbu <bardfarbu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
hi paulo

I don't see the point of the point of letting this piece be
rhizomatic, while  the theme of the piece is to mimmic a repeating
mechanism.



On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:05 AM, Paulo Mouat wrote:


rhizomatic



mvh,

Bård Farbu

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mvh,

Bård Farbu

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www: bardfarbu.com

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