Music Box
Overview | Exhibit | Research
Music Box was last revised in 2012
Music Box Emergent Behavior Music 2009 from Lindsay Grace on Vimeo.
Music Box is an artistic implementation of emergent behavior and its use to create music. Music Box employs a flocking algorithm to display animated notes that rise from a written score, then move to create a distinctive flock-lead musical arrangement. The result is emergent sound; a musical arrangement directed by the visual representation of flocking.
Music box was started in 2006. It is implemented using direct-X. It supports real time interaction, design time controls and 3-dimensional stereoscopic sound. Music Box is a creative exploration into the relationship between visual composition and sonic experience.
Exhibition:
Performance
Music Box is available as a performance exhibition in which the artist or visitors direct the experience via computer game controller. Music Box combines the agency of a game experience with the natural harmonies of emergent behavior.
Video
Music Box is also available as a looping video display. It is displayed in 10" digital frame or in DVD format.
Highlighted exhibits:
- New Media Caucus NMC10 Video Programme (2014)
- Llewellyn Gallery @ Alfred State College January 20-February 7, 2014
- Sleeth Gallery @ West Virgina Wesleyan CollegeJanuary 14-30, 2014
- Cassidy Theatre @ Chicago Cultural Center CAA Conference (Chicago)Screenings: February 13th from 12:00-2:30pm and February 14th from 5:30-8:00pm
- Brick City Gallery @ Missouri State UniversityMarch 4-15, 2014
- Boston Festival of Independent Games, Massachusetts Instititue of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (September 14, 2013)
- Sao Paulo, Brazil, FILE: Electronic Language Internatational Festival (July 2012)
- Madison, Wisconsin (June 2011): Games, Learning and Society Art Exhibit (University of Wisconsin) - catalog ETC Press
- Athens, Greece (November 2009): International Conference on Advancements in Computer Entertainment
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (October 2009), SBGames 2009 Arts Exhibition
Grace, L. 2010. Music Box: An Algorithm for Producing Visual Music. In Proceedings of the 2010 Third international Conference on Advances in Computer-Human interactions (February 10 - 16, 2010). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 125-129. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACHI.2010.18 Grace, L. (2011).
Grace, L. D. 2009. Music box: composing and performing visual music. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Enterntainment Technology (ACE '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 445-445. DOI=10.1145/1690388.1690493http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1690388.1690493
Music Box Emergent Behavior Music 2008 (with explanation) from Lindsay Grace on Vimeo.