IOhannes Zmölnig (AT)
"Do sinusoids dream of electric sweeps?" performance
Do sinusoids dream of electric sweeps? is a live-coding performance done in pure-data. It relies heavily on self-modifying Pd-patches that interact in an agent-like fashion. These agents (aka: patches) can do weird things such as move around, find out about other agents in their neighbourhood, connect to their neighbours and exchange data with their neighbours. The human has to do the chores: create new agents, tell agents to make good music by writing their generative code, tell agents to behave properly by changing their interaction code, hook up individual agents up with other agents by bringing them into physical proximity and dissolve (political?) assemblies of the agents by moving them further apart and in extreme cases by eradicating individual agents. The acoustic output is minimal composition of sine-waves. The visual output is a Pd-patch growing from blank page to pure madness.
IOhannes Zmölnig lives in Graz, Austria where he is working as a media artist, net activist and FLOSS enthusiast. He has been actively involved in the development of Pure data for more than 10 years, and is currently maintainer of Gem, zexy and some more obscure packages. One of the foci of his artistic work is improvisation with realtime computer environments (Live Coding), which is also the topic of the PhD-thesis, he is currently writing at. He would like to perform all over the world.
