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.

New Music Hartford premieres 19 works written within less than an hour including “Zais” by Benjamin Fuhrman 0:01, “Space Music” by Jamie Klenetsky 0:59, “Meditation in 60 Minutes” by Ted Smeltz 1:57, “Tangent” by Peter Lawless 4:19, “Burrowing” by Charles A. Turner 5:54, and “Confined” by Evan Merz 7:03

This week I interviewed Nolan Stolz about his upcoming concert, which features works composed simultaneously in a 60-minute time span. The concert is being sponsored by New Music Hartford, and is a benefit for the South Park Inn.

Nolan Stolz in the Recording Studio

Listen to the ComputerMusicBlog interview with composer [...]