Quadrumvibrate demonstrates an approach to directing algorithmic music systems in real time. At the core of Quadrumvibrate is a performance that unfolds through dynamic interactions between two performers and the generative systems they activate, forming a quartet of …
theSoundsOf // Chromie Squiggle transforms Snowfro’s iconic Art Blocks collection into generative musical compositions. Each of the 10,000 Squiggles produces a unique soundscape derived from its visual path, type, and traits. All audio is generated locally …
The Music Non Stop Chrome Extension brings a real-time generative music engine to your browser. Powered by the Web Audio API, it creates music locally—no streaming, no downloads, no samples, and no external connections. Each …
Live electronic audiovisual works are constantly seeking to be expressive and for instruments to be responsive. MSN/AV (Maximum Silence to Noise/Audio-Visual) continues this tradition with its live, interactive audiovisual performance system featuring two musicians using custom digital instruments …
createAlbum(“Piano II”); is the third album from Music Non Stop, of whom I’m a member, and the result of a year’s development with our generative Music Engine, applied to some of the world’s best digital …
“Sounds of 1679” is a generative media work that reinterprets the iconic Arecibo message, first broadcast into space in 1974 as a binary code, transforming it into a captivating, audiovisual experience. This project transforms the static …
“Endless Moments” is a real-time generative audiovisual work that features a polyphonic generative audio system playing consonant synthesized sounds with a gentle rhythmic energy. The visual materials include algorithmically generated textures and shapes, subtly synchronised …
Combining two of my passions, piano and algorithmic music, has resulted in the release of the second studio album by generative music group, Music Non Stop (MNS) titled CreateAlbum(“Piano”);. The album was produced during development …
Music is often associated with emotions, from excitement to sadness. The work ‘Contemplation’ is no exception and explores thoughtfulness with associated feelings from calmness to anxiety. The work features a mixture of synthesised sounds and …
T.H.E.M. (The Handmade Electric Machines) are human-powered electronic sound sculptures exploring the generation of electronic sound through the transference of energy from human kinetic action. Three T.H.E.M. each comprise two different sound and light-making mechanisms …
COUNTERSOUL is a digital media artwork created by the group Music Non Stop. (Andrew R. Brown, DEFSTALKR, and Nichaols Coleman). It makes history as the first generative musical composition to be inscribed onto the Bitcoin …
This was my submission to the Genuary 2023 prompt ‘generative music’. Inspired by awesome performances on the single-string diddley bow, this work generates its sound and performance in the web browser. Using the Web Audio …
Beneath Maiwar is an immersive audio experience based on underwater sounds of the Brisbane river. The quadraphonic algorithmically generated audio installation provides a brief glimpse into the hidden world under the river’s surface. As a …
Botanica Soundscapes are a suite of ambient musical works designed as a self-guided, mobile phone based, audio-enhanced experience of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens. Soundscapes are geotagged and triggered by location. The sound walk plays a …
Audio-Visual Interiors is a quadraphonic audio-visual composition performed by the live electronic duo of John R. Ferguson and Andrew R. Brown. Both composers have developed bespoke instruments for this work. Andrew R. Brown explores ring modulation …
Over the years I’ve posted various musical creations on my SoundCloud account. It provides an overview of my creative journey and features the many approaches I’ve adopted in my co-creative practice with algorithmic systems.
Furthering my previous interests in Stochastic Synthesis I implemented an emulation of Iannis Xenakis’ Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis on an Arduino microcontroller, the resulting algorithm I titled GenDynish. The Gendynish algorithm is software that runs on …
Controlling Interactive Music (CIM) is an interactive music system for human-computer duets. Designed as a creativity support system it explores the metaphor of human-machine symbiosis, where the phenomenological experience of interacting with CIM has both …
Generation II is an interactive electronic music performance between a live improviser and the ‘Evol’ algorithmic music system. The work explores the premise that musical structure can arise from variations and elaboration of musical motifs. …
Sculptural Sonic Agents is a collaboration between Andrew Brown and John Ferguson. The goal is to explore the development of sonic sculptural agents, these ‘agents’ are bespoke instruments that comprise artificial listening and sound generating capabilities. They …
