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Stir bugs

Gerard Roma

Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Stir bugs is an exploration of live algorithmic control in corpus-based performance. A community of computational agents confined to a two-dimensional square prison cell is live-coded into collective madness. Agents are controlled by simple code functions that define navigation in a terrain made of a collection of electronic noise samples. Each agent is also associated with a sound playback/synthesis function. The performance embraces the complexity emerging from quickly coding a multiplicity of behaviours in a shared sonic space.

Citation

Gerard Roma. 2023. Stir bugs. Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17552913 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2023_music_1262,
abstract = {Stir bugs is an exploration of live algorithmic control in corpus-based performance. A community of computational agents confined to a two-dimensional square prison cell is live-coded into collective madness. Agents are controlled by simple code functions that define navigation in a terrain made of a collection of electronic noise samples. Each agent is also associated with a sound playback/synthesis function. The performance embraces the complexity emerging from quickly coding a multiplicity of behaviours in a shared sonic space.},
address = {Mexico City, Mexico},
articleno = {1262},
author = {Gerard Roma},
booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17552913},
editor = {Rob Hamilton},
issn = {2220-4806},
month = {May},
note = {Online Presentation},
title = {Stir bugs},
url = {https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2023/nime2023_music_1262.pdf},
urlsuppl1 = {https://www.nime2023.org/program/online-in-person-concerts},
year = {2023}
}