Network Dynamics in Sustainable: a robotic sound installation

  • Authors:
  • David Birchfield;David Lorig;Kelly Phillips

  • Affiliations:
  • Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA E-mail: dbirchfield@asu.edu, david.lorig@asu.edu, crowbar@asu.edu;Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA E-mail: dbirchfield@asu.edu, david.lorig@asu.edu, crowbar@asu.edu;Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA E-mail: dbirchfield@asu.edu, david.lorig@asu.edu, crowbar@asu.edu

  • Venue:
  • Organised Sound
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The network serves as a conceptual, metaphorical, practical and musical force that drives Sustainable, a dynamic robotic sound installation. The piece is comprised of seven autonomous water gong nodes that are networked together by water tubes to distribute water throughout the system. A water resource allocation algorithm guides this distribution process and produces an ever-evolving sonic and visual texture. A simple set of behaviours govern the individual gongs, and the system as a whole exhibits emergent properties that yield local and large-scale forms in sound and light that are visually and musically compelling.