Visual Coding is a module offered in Music, Media and Performance Technology BSc., offered at the University of Limerick. For this project, students used the Processing development environment to create animations, using algorithmic methods.
Includes works by:
Brian Collins
Sorcha Hassett
Louise Durkan
Cailean Finn
Davide Simonetti
Ian Walsh
Amy Higgins
Cliona Smith
Kjetil Golid is a generative artist and system developer from Norway, with a keen interest in algorithms and data structures.
It was this interest that kickstarted his endeavours within generative art, originally using visualization as a tool for understanding various algorithms. These visualization exercises gradually shifted their focus from being pure, "correct" implementations of well-known algorithms, into a more esoteric realm where the underlying structures mostly serve the purpose of making intricate and aesthetic visuals.
Today, Kjetil's projects are often initiated by the question "What would it look like if ..."; an unfinished idea of a home-grown algorithm together with a visual translation, where it is unclear how the end result will look.
Generated Space is the result of a year-long endeavour to make computers do unexpected things. It presents a wide range of different generative algorithms; from organic flow fields and particle systems to rigid fractals and grammar-based shapes. Some more serious than others.
Hello from inside the Matrix.
This project livestreams from your webcam to put you in the Matrix, mapping each raining katakana character to a corresponding pixel brightness / color value.
This builds on top of a previous project I'd done, which was a simple reproduction of the digital rain animation in 2D.
Made with p5.js. Emily Xie is a generative artist, engineer, and educator living in NYC.
Project page.
The oscillation sandbox is an interactive website for testing various equations that create cyclical patterns. The code is for p5.js, but can readily be adapted from Javascript to the Java version of Processing.
This music video was created by Ksawery Kirklewski to accompany the single "bamb00" by wh0wh0 (Polish drummer Jacek Proscinski). This was further developed into an interactive website, where different versions of the video can be performed in real time.
when I heard Jacek’s ”bamb00” for the first time, I immediately got it that this task would require a special approach. Jacek’s music is insanely dynamic and sounds different on every show. Sometimes some parts take longer than usual. That’s why I started with thinking of how to make the video generative. There are so many levels and notes going on in that – for a proper visualisation – I decided to try something that would give me possibilies and also be a new thing for me: playing with 3D. Moreover, it had to work real-time for the live shows, best if 60 fps, which meant that it should be light to render and designed in a simple way.
after the work was done, we were thinking how to present the full experience of this generative feeling. I decided to recode the program for the on-line use and make an interactive website with use of p5.js (”Processing for web”).
INFERNO is a dramatic journey through the blazes around the globe to raise awareness about forest fires, not only in the Amazon but, for many reasons, across the globe. An audiovisual performance coded live, fetching both archived and real time data of the fires around the world from NASA database and their Near Real Time API. The main performance is coded in the Processing environment, in REPL/Hot Swap mode for changes on the fly without the need to recompile the sketch on each change, and it includes some customizations (GLSL shaders, data fetching algorithms…) and it communicates on the fly with Max/MSP and Ableton Live for the sounds and music.
The video documents the presentation at ICLC 2020 in Limerick, Ireland. Artist website.
Advance video for the track "Emergence" from Mai's forthcoming album Polis, out 26 March on Wormhole World.
Mai is a pseudonym for composer/musician/producer Steve McCourt. Originally from Dublin, he now lives in Shanghai. His music fuses acoustic and electronic elements into lovely compositions that foreground subtle harmonic changes. He released a pair of albums titled Arcadia on Stolen Mirror in 2018 and 2019, followed by Gaia on Wormhole World in 2020.
Robin Parmar created this video to honour the early computer graphics experiments of Larry Cuba. Cells of overlapping patterns generate new and unpredictable forms for the eye. A processing sketch is played live to the music, facilitating an organic flow that arises from the underlying grid.