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PIWeCS: enhancing human/machine agency in an interactive composition system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2004

IAN WHALLEY
IAN WHALLEY
Affiliation:
The University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand E-mail: musik@waikato.ac.nz
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Abstract

This paper focuses on the infrastructure and aesthetic approach used in PIWeCS: a Public Space Interactive Web-based Composition System. The concern was to increase the sense of dialogue between human and machine agency in an interactive work by adapting Paine's (2002) notion of a conversational model of interaction as a ‘complex system’. The machine implementation of PIWeCS is achieved through integrating intelligent agent programming with MAX/MSP. Human input is through a web infrastructure. The conversation is initiated and continued by participants through arrangements and composition based on short performed samples of traditional New Zealand Maori instruments. The system allows the extension of a composition through the electroacoustic manipulation of the source material.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , August 2004 , pp. 167 - 174
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2004

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