i.martron: Recent Episodes
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I began recording this late at night using a semi-random swarmish PD patch I'd made. Some of the plugins overloaded the cpu and provided a sort of stratified music until I could get things under control again. It's a late night romp that made me feel good at the time so maybe it'll do the same for you. Note there are no live instruments on this track. Pure computer generated bliss. Also note that nothing has been added to this podcast all summer, however, requests for the cast have been spreading like wildfire. Funny that. Talk to you soon. -martron
Metastate is an interactive computer system that I have been developing for this past semester. The piece derives musical influence from Iannis Xenakis' Metastaseis which was composed using Xenakis' theory of stochastic music. Stochastic music uses randomly generated elements which are created by strict mathematical processes. Metastate uses an approximation of the particle swarm algorithm to determine in real time the next state of the system. Swarming mathematics were discovered by studying the behaviour of bird flocks, fish schools and swarming insects. By ascribing a few simple rules to an entity, a bird for example, the higher level structure of a flock seems to emerge.
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live set from the end of year birthday blowout at Pepperjacks in Hamilton. happy birthday android.
live performance at a house show in Guelph, Ontario. accompanied by Mika Posen on violin and (faintly) DJ Hurtsack on the turntables