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Item Metadata only Artgen(2016-12-26) Poltronieri, Fabrizio AugustoArtGen is a simple and elegant app designed to engage everyone in the creation of art, where art, science and humanity meet. The world becomes a canvas and people (and even animals) become a color pencil or brush (the color can be changed at any time) and it records every move which is live streamed on www.artgen.com.Item Metadata only The Cape Jeremy Affair (2020/2010) a play for musicians (for 2 instruments (contrasting) and 2 laptops) - Software(GitHub, 2020-02-17) Vear, CraigDigital Score: a play for musicians (for 2 instruments (contrasting) and 2 laptops) The Cape Jeremy Affair is an experimental music theatre composition for 2 musicians and 2 laptop computers. It is created from a text: a 1969 sledge report from the British Antarctic Survey that described an arduous, and ultimately aborted, rescue attempt by four dog teams from Stonington Island to Fossil Bluff, where several geophysicists had sought shelter following a plane crash. The 30-day trip started as a routine dog sledging expedition conducting a geophysical survey along the way. But it ended up being a survival exercise with 4 men and 27 huskies adrift on an ice floe. The Cape Jeremy Affair was commissioned by York Theatre Royal.Item Metadata only Compose with Sounds, version 2(2019-03-12) Landy, Leigh; Pearse, StephenItem Metadata only Doctor Physics WTF(2017) Raczinski, FaniaAn online version of Fania Raczinski's PhD thesis. Converted from Latex to HTML with Pandoc.Item Metadata only False Start (2020/ 2015) - Digital score for amplified ensemble (2-5 players) and networked laptops(GitHub, 2020-02-16) Vear, Craigfor amplified ensemble (2-5 players) and networked laptops The title of this piece is borrowed from a Jasper Johns painting from 1959. Johns’ works have been a point of inspiration for many decades, due to his abstraction of found materials into artworks that are recognised and appreciated on their own merit. Like Johns’ painting, this composition focuses on colour, and the blurred boundary of shape and meaning. It also focuses on play; as in the playful interaction of juxtaposed colour in space and time, and the playful transformation of found material. This reference to the ‘found’, and the ‘being’ of itself, is a central focus of this composition, and like Johns’ works the focus is not on the source materials but on the articulation of those through the artist’s abstraction into something else that is, at all times, the source, the process, the result and the interpretation. False Start was commissioned by the Icebreaker Ensemble.Item Metadata only Farewell Sun (2020/ 2015) - Cantata for female voice, electric guitar and laptop(GitHub, 2020-02-16) Vear, CraigDigital Score: Cantata for female voice, electric guitar and laptop This composition explores the imaginary sound world evoked by a quote for Jules Verne’s book Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea(s) (1869): “Adieu, soleil! s’écria-t-il. Disparais, astre radieux! Couche-toi sous cette mer libre, et laisse une nuit de six mois étendre ses ombres sur mon nouveau domaine!”.. This poetic phrase, a surprising and moving lament by Captain Nemo, directed at the vanishing Antarctic sun as it retires for the Austral winter, is capable of being interpreted in several ways. It is, by its content, a deep and dark composition due to its literal and metaphoric associations. But, for me, the homonym of sun (for son) offers a more personal interpretation of the phrase.Item Metadata only The Feather: Digital Score for improvising violin and voice. (Alt version for improvising quartet.)(GitHub, 2020-03-19) Vear, Craig'The Feather' and 'The Feather Quartet' are digital scores for an improvising violin and voice (which can be the same musician), and improvising quartet. It is inspired by an extract from a Tove Jansson short story The Scolder from her book The Summer Book. In this extract an elderly grandmother is lying down on a quiet beach looking at a tiny piece of down caught in barbs of a plant leaf. She describes in great detail this feather and how it moves with the slight breeze. Her description evokes a sense of beauty in this minute event and draws attention to the profundity of concentrating on such small details. This profound seeking is at the heart of this piece; the musicians are instructed to seek such detail in the score, and the audience are invited into a careful listening experience that acts as a metaphor for the feather caught momentarily in the plant leaf on a deserted beach.Item Metadata only The Five, for vibraphone and responsive audiovisuals(Bat Hat Media, 2015-09) Battey, B.The Five, written for percussionist Andrew Spencer, is a spoken-text, music and moving-image work inspired by chapter 12 of the 1500 year-old Chinese Taoist text Tao Teh Ching. More information is available at http://BatHatMedia.com/Gallery/thefive.html .Item Open Access Hatred Apparatus(2017-09-01) Poltronieri, Fabrizio AugustoThe Hatred Apparatus is an apparatus that, once connected over the Internet, automatically captures the comments of news websites’ users. Those comments, stored over a database, are automatically posted on facebook and twitter in a randomised fashion. Every 1 hour a new commentary is shown by the apparatus. This play reveals that the large majority of commentaries done over in those websites are messages that contain, in different levels, traces of pure hatred. Hence, the play discusses the question of anonymity in these largely vile comments since, we believe, its vile nature would not be publically shown if it was not for anonymity itself. These captured and exhibited comments demonstrate the widespread intolerance and hatred usually condemned in the moral discourse of contemporary societies. We consequentially locate that these same vile comments, then, find a safe heaven in the public forums of the Internet. The intention of our play is not to condemn the commentaries themselves but, instead, to demonstrate these to the public in a setting detached from its original and usual context - the daily stories posted by those websites.Item Metadata only Nautilus: composition for bass flute and neural net (2020)(GitHub, 2020-05-14) Vear, CraigOn an artistic level this piece is inspired by an imaginery deep-sea journey of a nautilus mollusc, as it navigates coral reefs and deep water trenches across the oceans. The music describes this journey with the bass flute and generative sound-design highlighting the topography of the oceans and vast openess of the depths. The name 'nautilus' also works a couple of meta levels too: on the one hand the word dervies from the ancient greek for 'sailor'; here the musician is navigating around the uncharted ocean of sound that emerges through the genertive processes of this piece. On the other hand, the word originally referred to the paper nautiluses of the genus Argonauta, and also hints at Captain Nemo's submarine journey that lastes 20,000 leagues and explored new and wonderful under-sea worlds. On a technical level, this piece was created using Deep Learning processes, and in performance uses a neural net to make in-the-flow decisions about how the music is to be shaped. The compositional process started with an imporovisation by Carla on the idea of the nautilus' journey (originally the cephalopod). This improvisation then became the source material for machine learning processes and the sound-design manipulation that is heard during the performance. A neural network was trained using TensorFlow methods and a dataset of transcribed jazz improvisations. At the start of each iteration of the piece random notes from Carla's original improv are passed through this neural net that in turn outputs a notated improvisation based on the input note choices. This notation forms part of the digital score for live interpretation. Another element of the digital score is the generative sound design, which uses the audio recording of the original improvisation as its source material. A decision was made early on to make this composition distributable through Carla's publishing network, and therefore playable by others without the need for the composer/ programmer to be present and guide the technical setup of each performance. As such, it is a closed loop composition that does not listen to the live performance. The advantage of this is that many characteristics of the original improv remain intact while still being open to new iterations through machine earning and generative processes. As such, each new performance, by each new musician will be different, but still a version of the original. Nautilus was commissioned by Carla Rees. Dedicated to Carla ReesItem Metadata only On A Balcony (2020/ 2015) - Digital Score for two instruments(GitHub, 2020-02-16) Vear, CraigDigital Score for two instruments This composition is inspired by my personal experience of sitting on a balcony in Antarctica, overlooking the frozen George VI sound which lies in-between Alexander Island and Palmer Land. This was an extraordinary place, and seemed to hold onto time as a constant, rather than linear concept as the century-old glacial meltwater would trickle into the sound – itself frozen for several centuries – bordered by two land masses, each of which were separated from their respective continents (S. Africa and S. America) during Gondwana (200 million years ago). It was here, at ‘Bluebell cottage’ that I spent Christmas 2003, surrounded by the artifacts and memories of decades of Antarctica exploration, where an extraordinary sense of all those who had ever spent time there, immersed those in the present. Sitting on the balcony, at this time, was not a quiet experience, the wind generator gently hummed in polyphony with a flag flapping, while the hourly meteorological observations on the short wave radio punctuated time; nearby the moraine meltwater trickled, and the ice quietly clicked as its surface melted, exposing the decade old bubbles of air underneath; in the distance, only once and perhaps 40 miles away, could you hear the explosion of a large chunk of ice separating from a berg. This place also inspired one of my Five Antarctic Solitudes (2004) (2. 71˚S 68˚W).Item Metadata only On Junitaki Falls: trio for solo instrument and two A.I. performers(GitHub, 2020-03-20) Vear, CraigOn Junitaki Falls is a composition for live instrument and two artificial intelligent performers controlled by a central computer system that also operates as the score. Although Junitaki Falls exists as a geological feature in Japan, the reference to it as the title of this piece is inspired by Haruki Murakami’s book ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’. In this book a smaller story exists within the larger novel, with its presence felt throughout the book. In the piece, a smaller song exists within the larger composition, and like the novel it alters the whole music through its constant presence, even if we never hear it as itself. This smaller song exists as fragments of manuscript from Roger Jannotta’s transcription of Eric Dolphy’s bass clarinet solo of God Bless the Child composed by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. in 1939. Already this is the start of a complex matryoshka (‘Russian’) doll of layered interpretation. Add to this the process each individual performer of this work must complete in order to grow their score: months of feeding the AI system with progressively abstract layers of interpretation. The end result is much like the cascading mini falls that make up the whole of Junitaki’s geological feature.Item Metadata only Pamatamap(2017) Raczinski, FaniaAn interactive PhD map based on Web technologies. Inspired by Faustroll's journey from Paris to Paris.Item Metadata only Pataphysics; what the fuck?(2017) Raczinski, FaniaA unique imaginary solution to the absence of problems. pata.physics.wtf is a poetic search engine, no more, no less. The system described and shown on this site is part of a PhD project entitled Algorithmic Meta-Creativity by Fania Raczinski. The doctoral thesis describing this project can be found at dr.physics.wtf. This research involves studying human and computer creativity and how they are evaluated, the absurd pseudo philosophy pataphysics and its applications, and the development of creative exploratory search algorithms inspired by pataphysical concepts.Item Open Access Personal Space(2018-04-27) Everitt, Dave; Raczinski, FaniaAn online artwork connecting individual experiences to live space weather data. For the initial stages of the containing exhibition TETTT, 22 daily “prompts” in the form of keywords and phrases encouraged participants to write regular accounts of their life experience. The text on the screen is continually refreshed from over 500 of these intimate accounts and recollections. The central panel shows two measures of live “space weather”: 1. intensity of geomagnetic activity: the Kp index; 2. extent of the solar wind in AU (Astronomical Units). These data are used to filter the text according to intensity of language and modify the display in real time. The eight surrounding panels of text are refreshed according to the numerical order of the Chinese mathematical “magic square” of three, known as the Lo-Shu, historically used to lend order to cultural activities. This provides a connection between the impersonality of space weather and the very personal narratives. The central panel—usually allocated to “Earth”—displays live space weather, the colour of the rotating sun reflecting its current intensity.Item Metadata only ReRoROS: Recycled Robot Operating System(GitHub, 2020-07-14) Vear, Craig; Dubovitskiy, Dmitry A.This is a basic operating system for a recycled robot based on the Pioneer series of robots e.g. Pioneer 3 and Peoplebot. The original onboard computer from the Pioneer machines were replaced with Jetson Nano's. These were connected to the Hitachi driver processors using a serial connection via the Jetson's USB. The operating system was wrote in Python as an expandable, easily modified system for basic motion and server reporting.Item Open Access Stacked Bar-Code Chart(2018-07-10) Raczinski, FaniaA new kind of graphic chart to visualise large scale document structure. Made using HTML and CSS only. Inspired by barcodes and stacked bar charts.Item Metadata only The Stochastic Optimisation Software (SOS) platform(Zenodo, 2019-06-02) Caraffini, FabioItem Metadata only Three Last Letters (2020/2012): A play for musicians: 3 voices, 3 instruments, 3 laptops and diffused soundscape(GitHub, 2020-02-17) Vear, CraigThree Last Letters is a music composition that imagines the last moments in the minds of Scott, Wilson and Bowers before they die in a tent, alone on an Antarctic Ice Shelf in 1912. It was created using facts and suppositions surrounding these last moments and includes a library of found materials created from texts from the final entry’s in Scott’s diary, the final letters home from Scott, Bowers and Wilson, Antarctic field recordings from my British Antarctic Survey composer residency in 2003-4, music materials (specifically We love the place, O God, and Sea Slumber Song by Elgar) and other sounds and music that take the minds of the audience to this lonely place. Together, the mix of the live ensemble with the disembodied voice of Scott, the ghost string sextet, and treated soundscape re-create the immensity of white sonic space of Antarctica, and a claustrophobic sense of being in that tent. Demo https://vimeo.com/55203930Item Metadata only Triptych Unfolding, for piano, electronics and live visuals(2014) Battey, B.; Guðmundsson, H."Triptych Unfolding" is an audiovisual collaboration between composers Hugi Guðmundsson and Bret Battey, premiering at the opening concert of the RCVM - Punto y Raya Festival, January 30th, 2014, at the Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavík. The work is for live piano, live electronics processing of the piano, and live performance generative visuals.