cellular automata patches
Helo
I am working on a research project about generative muisc and I need to find applications that use cellular automata. I found Glitch Sequencer and Midi Game of Life, both written in Processing, CAM by Dale Millen and Wolframtones. I was wondering if anyone knows other applications available, not necessarely max patches.
Thanks a lot
Samuel
http://tones.wolfram.com/ - pretty cool. He uses a lot of musical rules to make it sound musical. It is still very impressive.
http://www.audiodamage.com/effects/product.php?pid=AD020 - automaton - basic fun
http://vimeo.com/931182 - a video of a patch that uses past cell history to determine the overall HEAT of a system. Probably the most useful musical use of CA I've seen. Not that I have been looking too long but so far it's the best.
http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis/spring2007/detail.php?project_id=1369 - a guy who propagates the cellular automata grid from the top down. The sum number of all ON sqaures across each new row is used to modulate the FM amount in an FM synth. Sounds a little blocky like he should have used a scaler or smoothing to smooth the transistions but still a good idea.
http://x2.i-dat.org/~csem/UNESCO/9/index.html - Chaos Synth a granular synth with CA. The length of a sound is determined by the collapse rate of a CA Grid. The less number of cells the quieter the sound as far as I remember.
Have you found any others. I would be interested in seeing them if you have.
I've done quite a few pieces using cellular automata or other types of automata as their basis. Here are some descriptions:
Some of these are generative, using code that I wrote in ChucK to generate their MIDI patterns. Let me know if you would like to take a look at this; I haven't posted the code.