<span style="font-weight: bold;">COMPOSING WITH PROCESS 2.2 Exclusives podcast, features exclusive works by Marcus Schmickler and EVOL</span>
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<br>Each episode of this series is followed by a special accompaniment
programme of exclusive music by some of the leading sound artists and
composers working in the field. This show presents two contrasting
generative works by German composer Marcus Schmickler and Catalan
collective EVOL.
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<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">02:00 Marcus Schmickler 'RR 0' (Revolving Realities #0), 2010 (23:43)</span>
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<br>'RR 00' is an excerpt from a collaborative auto-reactive light and
sound installation that was premiered on 19th January 2010 in Cologne.
The sound component is the sonification of astrophysical data and the
simulation of dynamic systems.
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<br>The installation consisted of computer controlled
electro-luminescent wires, quasi-spherical light projections and 10.2
channel audio. The light installation, its custom controllers and the
light projections were created by Cologne-based group Interpalazzo.
Schmickler created various musical parts especially for this
collaborative work. 'RR 0' is the process running at sunset before dark,
after which the light installation becomes visible.
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<br>The piece was originally conceived for 'The Bonn Patternization' -
which explores the sonification of astrophysical data. The basis of 'The
Bonn Patternization' consists of readings for different stars, star
clusters and galaxies, as well as their properties such as light,
distance and coordinates. In addition, sounds are generated from systems
that arithmetically simulate astronomically relevant phenomena such as
the interaction between celestial bodies due to gravitation. The process
underlying 'RR 0' simulates the behavior of objects or clusters of
objects in a gravity field. It is based on a visual embodiment primarily
implemented in Supercollider by Fredrik Olofsson and reworked into a
Subtractive Synthesis application with the help of Alberto de Campo.
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<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">25:41 EVOL 'Untitled Anthem Study', 2010 (12:37)</span>
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<br>After reading Benoit Mandelbrot's 1982 The Fractal Geometry of
Nature in 1998, Roc Jimenez de Cisneros became fascinated with
self-similarity and iterated function systems and their possible
application to musical structures. This piece, which was finished a few
days after Mandelbrot's death in the fall of 2010, uses several
synthesis models originally written for Rave Slime (ALKU, 2010) in
combination with a recursive algorithm that was used in the composition
Fart Synthesis (Presto!?, 2009).
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<br>The piece is one of many studies realised in the research process
started in late 2008 to combine rave-inspired sounds with generative
algorithms to explore particle physics concepts such as configuration
spaces, parameter permutations and phase spaces.
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