Australasian Computer Music Conference, August 2000

Boolean Networks for the Generation of Rhythmic Structure

 

Alan Dorin

http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~aland
aland@cs.monash.edu.au

Centre for Electronic Media Art
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia


Outline

  • Motivation

  • Previous methods & music

  • Boolean networks

  • The Boolean Sequencer
  • The Boolean Sequencer U.I.

  • Examples, comments etc.

  • Conclusions & future work

 


Motivation (personal)


Previous music


Previous methods

Two CA's, Wolfram '84



Liquiprism, Dorin '99



Turbulence (detail), McCormack '94*



Boolean networks


Example Boolean network

 


The Boolean sequencer

 

animate notes


The Boolean sequencer user interface

 

 

 


Screen dump

 


Examples, comments etc.


Future work and conclusions



©Copyright Alan Dorin/Animaland 2000
(*Turbulence image © Copyright Jon McCormack 1994-2000)