Slow-Fi is a generative self correcting audio/visual environment. Original concept and software by Jason Soares 2004. Modified in 2009 by Jason Soares & JFRE Coad. Download for Mac/PC. Slow-Fi EP release August 24th, 2010 on imputor? Records.

Once running, the emitter (pulsing circle) will launch hexagon shapes from itself. These hexagons [...]

A random constructive 4-channel video, built in PureData/Flash, automatically creating a neverending dark thriller based in a fictitious hotel by using short snippets of high-tensioned and looping Hollywood-found-footage. [1]

Pond Life III: Following on from our success with Pond Life II, we plan to create a new version of the work, developing the themes and technologies of the piece further. Pond Life is a generative audiovisual laboratory that encourages audience exploration and participation. Pond Life II has been exhibited in Montreal (ICMC 2010) and [...]

Pattern Recognition is an animated graphical score created in tandem with the music through a finely tuned generative and performative process. Each shape has a dedicated relationship to its corresponding sound, much like notes written on a stave. Each tick, pulse and tone is represented within a labyrinth of grids as it plays with our [...]

Here’s a 5-minute excerpt of a real-time video piece I presented as part of the Make Over show at OV Gallery in Shanghai, January 23-March 13, 2010.

The show was a response to the dramatic beautification campaign that has overrun Shanghai in anticipation of hosting the World Expo this year. The falling objects in the video [...]

On February 23rd, 1924, Lejaren Hiller was born in New York City. Hiller would become recognized as one of the pioneers of algorithmic composition. In 1957 he wrote the first major computer assisted composition. The Illiac Suite was composed using University of Illinois’ Illiac computer.

Actual work on this problem was started [...]

DarwinTunes is a computer program developed by Dr Bob MacCallum, a bioinformatician at Imperial College London. In the first instance DarwinTunes does three things. It stores a lot of computer-generated songs on a server, presents the songs to the world via a web interface, and allows people to listen to and rate them.

So far [...]

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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