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OTOMATA SEQUENCER UPDATE

+ UPDATE 15-9-2014 : new page with sound excerpt & more pixДЇor a background on the Ulamizer II module research and cellular automata please visit these pages hereВ & here.

ULAMIZER II is a prototype of a CA music module, designed to be part of the Noyzelab studio environment for both modular and MIDI synthesizers.В This module design has now been integrated into my MANIAC / Arthur development systems, see these posts here & here. So play away, Internets.Since the early experiments by contemporary composers such as Iannis Xenakis, interest in the use ofВ Cellular Automata (CA)В in music has dramatically increased.

But itвЂ™s a heck of a lot more fun than genetic engineering вЂ¦ or the plague. Rapid iteration? Quick contagian? Generational evolution? HmmmвЂ¦ sounds a bit like whatвЂ™s happening on a larger level as creations like this spread around the Web.

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If you can tear yourself away from playing with this wonderful toy, you can get deep into genetic code for musical composition and spectacular SuperCollider creation. Check out his terrific video on this work, as built in the open source tool SuperCollider. His musical expression is generally procedural by nature, expressed as a set of rules in compositional form. And for that, you can thank вЂњcomputational sound artistвЂќ Batuhan Bozkurt of Istanbul. Great design, embodying musical sense in the structure of the tool itself, makes this a hit. Want further evidence? Look no further than the Facebook page, or better yet, open discussion on Reddit: Flash may not be the best rich tool the Web has ever seen, but itвЂ™s only the means to an end вЂ“ the end being getting things in a connected browser.

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App or not, the Web is what makes software successful these days, through YouTube views, blog posts like this one (ahem), and even casual вЂњlook whatвЂ™s on my screenвЂќ sharing that results in the exchange of a URL anyone with a browser can run. Otomata running the browser.Д«ut itвЂ™s Web sharing thatвЂ™s already making it powerful вЂ“ people sending around links, sharing creations, and showing friends. But app or browser window, it doesnвЂ™t matter: the Web is what makes new ideas spread. вЂњThis should be an app, bro,вЂќ says a Facebook commenter.

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It runs as a Flash file, which gives pretty much anyone access to it (including the majority of people on the planet who still donвЂ™t have either an iOS or Android device). Right now, Otomata is not an app, though iPhone/iPad and Android versions are reportedly in the works. In all the discussion of вЂњappsвЂќ versus the Web вЂ“ a discussion as old as the network itself, having appeared as вЂњcloud computingвЂќ and various other forms before вЂ“ people may be missing the point. IвЂ™m late in posting it, but in a way, thatвЂ™s a good thing вЂ“ in the time that this sequencer has spread around the Web, itвЂ™s spawned a small army of casual musicians producing their own videos and patterns.ДЄnd that brings me to an observation. Otomata is a simple generative online grid-based sequencer, owing to a number of step sequencers and Toshio IwaiвЂ™s Tenori-on, with some beautiful circular visualizations of the resulting sounds. Behold the power of the Web: composition ideas become a tool, a tool becomes a means for even casual users sharing musical sketches, and a browser toy can be a window into a Turkish sound artist breeding musical DNA like some people breed strains of flowers.

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