Portfolio: Strange Attractions
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University of Keele
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 784
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- This is a portfolio
- Open access status
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- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Strange Attractors consists of a composition Sabda Vidya no. 2 for flute, tenor sax and live electronics, a journal article and set of Max/MSP externals. The composition was premiered at the Festival of Contemporary Music (DMM) in Skopje, N.Macedonia (2014), and received performances at the 5th International Symposium on Music and Sonic Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany (2014), the International Centre for Electroacoustic Music (STEIM), Amsterdam and the Muziekhuis, Utrecht (2014). Sabda Vidya no. 2 was funded by a Ministry of Culture Grant for Creative Outputs (Rep of N. Macedonia) and is published on Sonic Shinings (2018) (SOCOM) CD.
Research into strengthening the correlation between live performer gestures and the live electronics sounding output within in real-time electronics works led to the investigation of mathematical equation use in live sound transformations for this purpose. Equations derived from chaos theory proved useful as a means to shape electronics output and were packaged into the Attractors Library (Spasov, 2014-2020) - a collection of MaxMSP (Cycling’74) externals, based on iterative mathematical equations representing nonlinear dynamic systems).
Applying equations to shape live interactions with musicians is articulated in ‘Using Strange Attractors to Control Sound Processing in Live Electroacoustic Composition’, Computer Music Journal, 2014). Sabda Vidya no.2 was the testing ground to observe the creative potential of this new method for sound processing live instruments in real time. The application within Sabda Vidya no.2 looked to yield unpredictable results (within a limited range) when processing live sound from instruments.
Research insights indicated that chaotic attractors output variations with self-organizing qualities. Embedding these new attractors (Max externals) into Sabda Vidya no.2 provided new real-time interactive possibilities, achieving organic extensions to live instrumental sound in a controlled aleatoric manner. Instilling controlled ‘randomness’ via the application of mathematic equation use creates the experience of intelligent and idiomatic hyper-instruments on stage.
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- Non-English
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