Sustainable: a dynamic, robotic, sound installation

David Birchfield, David Lorig, and Kelly Phillips

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper details the motivations, design, and realization of Sustainable, a dynamic, robotic sound installation that employs a generative algorithm for music and sound creation. The piece is comprised of seven autonomous water gong nodes that are networked together by water tubes to distribute water throughout the system. A water resource allocation algorithm guides this distribution process and produces an ever-evolving sonic and visual texture. A simple set of behaviors govern the individual gongs, and the system as a whole exhibits emergent properties that yield local and large scale forms in sound and light.

Citation:

David Birchfield, David Lorig, and Kelly Phillips. 2005. Sustainable: a dynamic, robotic, sound installation. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176705

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Birchfield2005,
 abstract = {This paper details the motivations, design, and realization of Sustainable, a dynamic, robotic sound installation that employs a generative algorithm for music and sound creation. The piece is comprised of seven autonomous water gong nodes that are networked together by water tubes to distribute water throughout the system. A water resource allocation algorithm guides this distribution process and produces an ever-evolving sonic and visual texture. A simple set of behaviors govern the individual gongs, and the system as a whole exhibits emergent properties that yield local and large scale forms in sound and light. },
 address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
 author = {Birchfield, David and Lorig, David and Phillips, Kelly},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176705},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {computing,dynamic systems,evolutionary,generative arts,installation art,music,robotics,sculpture,sound},
 pages = {160--163},
 title = {Sustainable: a dynamic, robotic, sound installation},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2005/nime2005_160.pdf},
 year = {2005}
}