Generative Music - Cellular automata and blip blops

[ UPDATE!! for higher quality sound, watch this here: http://www.vimeo.com/931182 ]
This is a sample output of something I've been working on lately. A somewhat intelligent cellular automata system that I developed with some atari2600 style sonification.

Poor figure that you see at the beginning triggers a relatively complex cellular life system(which is based on conway's rules but it's not ahistoric and can switch rules on the fly depending on the situation) and I've done some work to sonify the life with atari2600 sounds. I have no control over the system once it is started, and it dies by itself.

Software used:

Processing connected to SuperCollider via osc_p5 library and the great p5_sc library, and I used the Atari2600 UGen by Fredrik Olofsson, all custom software.

It is actually in stereo but Youtube bastardizes the content by converting everything to mono. If anyone is interested in the original, i can send links.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• generative
• music
• processing
• supercollider
• cellular
• automata
• chaos
• order
• atari
• 2600
• sonification
• visualisation

[lggutsdzn]

congratulations! this is so great.

is the source code available?

thanks!

[Tikvanaya]

amazing! when the cells are active you have more intense sounds than when the cells form still life. How is that done? Is it just because there are more cells?

[siriusblack9999]

you should use a chaos rule for it instead of life(which basically has the habit of dying out in confined spaces)

[Kyothine]

this is freaking amazing

[jarblewarble]

This should be Minecraft's theme song, since it's a generative infinite game.

[jamesvla]

awesome 8 bits stuff

[metabog]

incredbile.

[ZugBub]

That's really cool

[1nfinitezer0]

cool, conway's game of life meets drexciya ~: )

[xXKariBananaXx]

Wow, it's very techno-ish, almost otherworldly!

Awesome work!