Announce: Audiotierra (& other cool stuff) / Expo Manchester / June 25th

In case anyone's interested in where all this effort on MySQL MXJ
linkage is going: it's for a new piece called Audiotierra that's
showing at the Expo event in Manchester this weekend. Audiotierra is
an installation work built around a software ecology - as the genetic
population of the ecology mutates and evolves, software tracks the
genomes and exercises the control points of a granular synthesis engine.

    More details at http://www.cassiel.com/audiotierra

The Expo event is: http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/expo - and there
must be other folks here who have cool stuff going on at the Expo
which it would be good to hear about (or even talk about over a beer).

Anyway, the MXJ database linkage seems to be working pretty well, and
I've had this thing running for several hours at a stretch without
any serious problems (although an artificial ecology can generate a
LOT of data in a few hours). It does take two or three hours from
cold before I get any decent music out of it, though: I guess the
generic pool needs to be just so. I'm going to be doing some more
soak testing over the next few days - which is probably just as well,
since the exhibition space is a heritage site that used to house
public baths...

    -- N.

nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://
www.cassiel.com