Music Box
Music Box is an artistic implementation of emergent behavior and its use to create music. The performance version of 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, and completed in 2009. 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.
Resources and links:
- Music Box Demonstration:
Music Box Emergent Behavior Music from Lindsay Grace on Vimeo.
- View Controls: Design time | Run time
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Download:
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High Quality [with explination] (37mb) WMV | Low Quality (5mb) WMV
Research:
- An Algorithm for Visual Music, The Third International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (St Maarten), IARIA/IEEE Proceedings - (2010) Conference Proceedings
- Music Box, Composing and Performing Visual Music, The Fifth Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference (2009), ACM/DIMEA Proceedings