Composition

Composition aims to mix aesthetic modalities with math and code, at technical depth. The event will consist of talks and performances where people can meet, learn, and discuss feedback.

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Event

Composition #1

Date: Sunday 5/24 2-5pm

Location: The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., Philadelphia

Free RSVP, all ages, and donations to the venue encouraged.

Lineup:

• Michael Wehar - AlgoArt: Talk and demo of AlgoArt, a web-based platform that brings together coding and visual arts.
• Matthew Kaney - Composing Patterns: The Pure Functional Core of Tidal, Strudel, and other Uzulangs: A hybrid talk/live code performance explaining the theory underlying "uzulangs" (the family of live code pattern tools based on TidalCycles and Strudel).
• Matt Zucker - Computer-Assisted Quilting: Discussion and presentation of three quilts based on mathematical tessellations. Documentation for two of the projects is available online at [1] and [2].
• arjun - algorithms for expression & truth: arjun discusses multiple enquiries he pursued in the past, while tracing a common thread — using logic-systems to understand lived-human-experiences, and building algorithms to express them.
• Nick Romano - Techno-juggling: An angled TV platform where camera-tracking of colored balls provides audiovisual accompaniment to a juggling performance.

Related Work

• FARM (The ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design) Site
• Tidal Cycles - a Haskell live coding library. Site
• Godfried T. Toussaint, Ed. 2005. The Euclidean algorithm generates traditional musical rhythms. Paper
• Practice of Proof Site