nick rothwell | project cassiel

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.

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 

nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- 

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...

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


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