2000
Computer music and electronic experimentalism, from Australia and elsewhere. Sound from complex autonomous systems: chaotic sunspot models, logic gates powered by cellular automata, sample-slicing genetic crossover, growth patterns in simulated fungus, feedback cycles in vinyl-stylus-amp-speakers. Generative techniques for audio spread out from their breeding grounds in academic computer music, finding homes in distributed subcultures of experimental electronics. Net.generation media-hackers appropriate and repurpose these techniques and approaches; "traditional" computer musicians become a new old school. Autonomous audio crawls over networks, across contexts.
Group
Website
Program website