This paper presents an overview of Auspex, an agent-based artificial life ecosystem generating multichannel soundscapes from corpus-based concatenative synthesis techniques aligned with the acoustic niche hypothesis. Insights into its development are ...
This paper presents an overview of Auspex, an agent-based artificial life ecosystem generating multichannel soundscapes from corpus-based concatenative synthesis techniques aligned with the acoustic niche hypothesis. Insights into its development are derived from the review of two prototypical systems; BoidGran, a boid-driven granular synthesizer, and Swarmscape, an audio-visual performance system that emphasizes the acoustic emergence of swarming bodies. Analysis includes conceptual approaches in the contextualization of the system’s output.