ABSTRACT:
Recent work with Playable Media develops multi-agent simulations as interactive graphical scores for sound performance. Visualizations of swarm simulations introduce a generalizable approach for coupling sound synthesis with emergent features in a dynamic graphical interface. The presentation will introduce a methodology for using swarm agents’ data to control sound synthesis. Swarm visualization provides an evolutionary software interface by integrating swarm algorithms to playable interface functionality with continuous auditory feedback. For performance configuration a large format capacitive sensing panel provides a surface to project visualizations of swarm simulations as well as the sensing mechanism for introducing human players’ actions to the simulation. Multiple participants or a solo performer can manipulate the swarms with parallel control of sounds. Feature data are extracted from swarm formations and applied to parameter variations of sound synthesis models. The results have been applied to live performance of synthesized sounds in a concert setting.
ABOUT INSOOK CHOI:
Insook Choi is a Korean-born composer and media interaction design based in New York City. Her body of work has expanded from instrumental, electro-acoustic and computer music to include sensors and interactive performance with video, computer graphics and virtual reality. Her deign research integrates technology development outcomes into expressive media. These research areas are directed by creative investigation, encompassing human gesture studies and experience design, computational media, semantic computing, interactive narrative structures and signal processing, architectures for creative media applications, and complex dynamics applied to algorithmic design. Her previous positions served many institutes including UC Berkeley Engineering Laboratory as a specialist and an artist in residence, UIUC National Center for Supercomputing Application as a composer in residence, UIUC Human Computer Intelligent Interaction at Beckman Institute as a research fellow, the Museum of the Future in Linz, Austria as a guest artist as well as in IRCAM. Dr. Choi has created computational and digital arts curricula in the School of Art Institute of Chicago and at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. She is founding Director of the Emerging Media Technologies program at the College of Technology of the City University of New York.