Saturday, January 27, 2007

The Bacterial Orchestra

I discovered the Bacterial Orchestra today, a project put together by an architect, an electronic artist and a musician in Stockholm, Sweden. From their website:

"Bacterial Orchestra is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism. It consists of several audio cells. Every cell listens to its surroundings and picks up sounds trying to play them back in sync with what it hears. It can be the background noise, people talking or sound played by other cells."

It looks like every audio cell contains a microphone, a set of speakers, and a controller of some sort that listens to the microphone and plays back what it hears with a pre-programmed behaviour. This is quite like an all-electronic audio-only version of my "deep listening" device.

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009294.php

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