Browsing by Author "Colasso, Marco"

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    Generating music from flocking dynamics
    (IEEE, 2012) Huepe, Cristián; Cádiz, Rodrigo F.; Colasso, Marco
    We explore different approaches for generating music from the flocking dynamics of groups of mobile autonomous agents following a simple decentralized control rule. By developing software that links these dynamics to a set of sound wave generators, we study how each approach reflects sonically the transition to collective order and which produces musically interesting results. We consider three qualitatively different ways of translating flocking dynamics into music: (1) A direct approach that maps agent positions to sounds, (2) a synchronization approach where each agent carries an oscillator that couples to neighboring agents, and (3) a physics-inspired approach that mimics the sound that would result from an effective friction between neighboring agents. We find that all approaches allow the listener to discriminate between different phases in the system, but that the second and third can yield more musically interesting and appealing results.
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    OSC-NETLOGO: A tool for exploring the sonification of complex systems using NetLogo
    (2012) Cádiz Cádiz, Rodrigo Fernando; Colasso, Marco
    In this article, we introduce OSC-NETLOGO, a tool that allows the creation of sonic phenomena by taking advantage of NetLogo’s power for designing and building models of complex systems. NetLogo is a multi-agent programming language and modeling environment for simulating natural and social phenomena. It is particularly well suited for modeling complex systems that evolve dynamically over time. We provide two examples taken from NetLogo’s library of models. These examples provide evidence for the capabilities and potential of NetLogo as a sound synthesis tool. We hope that this tool could be of aid in future efforts of creating new complex sounds and interesting musical material.