3spds

this week i have four final project presentations in a row, and “the data and tension” will comprise no less than three of them.  mostly, this decision was arrived at for practical reasons: i want my performers to have a few chances to practice before the actual presentation on may 8th.  it will also be nice to have the experience of trying to explain it a few times before the big date as well.

i have decided that in addition to my preamble where i problematize transiency and opacity in creative work with technology, just after i play the binaural recordings from the installation, i should engage two audience members in a demonstration of the tdat system.  this way, in explaining the rules we can see them applied to a smaller system first, and the audience has the opportunity to experience the dilemma i’m trying to communicate.

this new ruleset is currently being located by a massive automated genetic search algorithm i wrote in supercollider.  i’m searching for this new ruleset with a lot of improvements to the code that both automate the entire workflow and properly log each step of the process for future sonification / visualization work.

i am still uncertain if a duet version is viable, because it’s currently on its 140th generation of 32 and we’re still not getting reasonable results.  i may can the duet idea and go for a trio instead, but i’m going to let this run for a few more hours and we’ll see if i eat my words.  i hope i do, words are tasty.

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