sandcobainer / ca-music

Prototype repository for Cellular Automata generative music application.

CA-Music - Expressive Machinery Lab, Georgia Tech

authors: Sara Milkes, Sandeep Dasari
document created by: Sandeep Dasari
last updated: 2019, October 28
last updated by: Sandeep

Contents

• Overview
• Dependencies Overview
• Folder Contents

Overview

Collaborative development repository for table top CA Music prototype.

This repository is a collection of prototypes made for a multidisciplinary research project at Expressive Machinery Lab, Georgia Tech. The project focuses on engaging kids in elementary and middle school on tabletop interactive surfaces in a museum.

The music application is a prototype of using Cellular Automata, music and visuals to engage concepts of computational thinking in a 5 minute experience.

Dependencies Overview

• Max 8
• P5.js
• Sonic Pi (for 1 protoype)
• Tone.js

Dependencies Overview

• Max 8
• tone.js
• Sonic Pi
• p5.js

Folder Contents

This folder contains multiple prototypes in their own sub folder

• 1d-CA is a 1-Dimensional drum step sequencer using classic Neighbor rules of CA, built in Max 8.
• p5 is a 2-Dimensional melodic step sequencer built entirely on tone.js and p5.js to be run as a browser web application
• SonicPISequencer is a 2-Dimensional melodic step sequencer built in p5 and Sonic Pi (early iteration of p5 )
• max-prototype is an experimental 2-D CA that generates beats and melodies using force directed graph-like computation. Inspired from the popular music application nodebeat