Pat(c)hology : a distributed virtual orchestra by Yves Degoyon
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Pat(c)hology is a distributed music environment involving local and remote participants that control a patch ( Pure Data ) using an IRC channel and commanding a bot that will send commands to the running patches that triggers the actuation of virtual musicians, creating a virtual distributed orchestra.
The work of modelizing musicians in the form of a Pure Data patch was started some years ago and include a collection of different well-known artists like Otomo Yoshihide, Christian Marclay, ... as they all use very specific and recognizable techniques, the approach is to replace them by a patch, trying to make us feel that the machine and usual tools shape our musical practice and that the human interaction becomes less significant so that it can be replaced by a bot.
Through the IRC chat, we will create a virtual network of performers, all the people connected on the chat, each one listening to the resulting sound through an audio/video stream. The stream will let people listen to the output of the whole and interact with it. Some textual visuals will also be generated from the remote participants.
Software:
Pure Data, IRC, perl bots