do sinusoids dream of electric sweeps?
"Do sinusoids dream of electric sweeps?" is a live-coding performance done in Pure Data. It relies heavily on self-modifying PD patches that interact in an agent-like fashion.
* move around
* find out about other agents in their neighbourhood
* connect to their neighbours
* exchange data with their neighbours
The human has to do the chores:
* create new agents
* tell agents to make good music by writing their generative code
* tell agents to behave properly by changing their interaction code
* hook up individual agents up with other agents by bringing them into physical proximity
* dissolve (political?) assemblies of the agents by moving them further apart and in extreme cases by eradicating individual agents
The acoustic output is somewhat limited to sine waves. The visual output is a Pd-patch going crazy.