With the Blurred Vision of a Newborn

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.

Tags: algorithmic, concert, generative, java, live, steelpan, swarm intelligence, video