URL:

files/proceedings/2007/60.pdf

Abstract:

In this paper, we present a platform for experimental music and multimedia performance that uses swarm theory, a subfield of complexity theory, to model of complex behaviors in intelligent environments. The platform is a kinetic structure equipped with sensors and mobile speakers that functions as a dynamically changing space for music performance. Game development software and Internet technologies have been used for the creation of a 3D virtual environment for remote control and data exchange, thereby adding an augmented reality component. The paper describes the hardware and software architecture of the system and discusses implementation issues concerning multilayered control architecture. This research combines approaches and techniques from the fields of kinetic architecture and intelligent environments on the one hand and of generative music algorithms on the other hand.