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.11194712

BibTeX Entry

@article{nime23-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.11194712},
 editor = {Rob Hamilton},
 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}
}