I am excited to to be creating live, generative, audio responsive art at the Eden Stage of Audio Garden 2024!! New visuals, new stage, new screen, new projector, AI Hologograms and two days of amazing electronic music, DJ’s and craic in the Irish countryside! Don’t miss it!
Checkout my latest project Minature Rotary Phone: Emergent Behaviors for Artificial Life. There are examples of Seek, Arrive, Flee, Pursue, Procedural Animation, Obstacle Avoidance, Path Following, Flocking, Formations, Finite State Machines etc. etc. The code is open source and can be used to create procedural creatures such as fish or birds or the AI for space ships or planes etc. etc.
The task of my Games Engines 2 students this semester was to observe and record birds, insects, nematodes, bacteria or other living creatures, and simulate them, artistly or realistically using a game engine.
My plan is to exhibit the best of these assignments at the EDEN stage of Audio Garden Festival in August 2024.
Checkout the assignment brief on github.
Who says computer science isn’t creative?? These are my second year students, Java programming assignments. The students form a team, choose a song and create a visual story of the song. The students write code to respond to the sounds and create classes to encapsulate the visual elements. They use VS Code, Java, git and the Processing libraries for Creative Coding. At the end of the semester the students get to present their work to the class on the big screen with the volume turned up. It’s great craic!
TU Dublin computer science students and game design students competed in Games Fleadh, the national, intervarsity console and PC games development competition in March, winning:
The prize winning games were all made in Godot!
Now in its 21st year, the competition finals took place in TUS Thurles Campus, on March 6th, 2024. This years theme was “Start With Nothing”. Teams began work on their projects in November 2023, developing all the design, programming, art and music themselves. The games were all made using the free, open-source Godot Game Engine, marking this the first time a game made with Godot wins Best Game. The teams were mentored by Dr Bryan Duggan from the School of Computer Science, TU Dublin and Dr John Healy from the School of Media.
My first year students made musical instruments in Godot this semester. As research, we attended musical performances in the Concert Hall in East Quad and also trad sessions in The Cobblestone. Then the students created musical instruments with unique user interfaces, sounds and designs. Students did a live performance with their their instruments as the demo of the assignment.
Check out the assignment brief on github.
Pictures from the visit of Berlin artist Adam John Williams to TU Dublin School of Computer Science in April as part of a TU Dublin Growthhub funded project. During Adams visit, he meet with composers and musicians, saw the work of computer science creative coding and game design students and had planning meetings for a planned music hacking workshop and algorave in TU Dublin in October 2024.
This is a re-recording my VJ performance for MSX composer Tadahiro Nitta at MSXGOTO40 in Amsterdam in December 2023 Featuring:
– i.am.dani – The AI Chatbot from 1987 that comes to life in 2023 to make art and write poetry
– MIDI controlled, sound generated algorithmic art
– Creative coding projects made by TU Dublin Computer Science and Game Design students inspired by the story of MSX
– Gameplay of MSX games from which the music is taken
All music made and performed by Tadahiro Nitta on MSX computers
GAZZEL INTRO
GG TROIS
BACKFLOW WAVE – Raging Blitz
BOSS BGM – Raging Blitz
STAGE CLEAR– Raging Blitz
STAFF ROLL – Raging Blitz
CAR NO 52 IT SEQUENCE
XAK 2 INTROSCREEN
XAK 1 WATERDRAGON
FRAY Last Boss –
DARKMAZE ILLUSION CITY – theme A
Source code for i.am.dani https://github.com/skooter500/iamdani
Here is some more artwork and poetry created with i.am.dani the AI chatbot from 1987 that comes to life in 2024. i.am.dani will be at the TU Dublin CAO Open Day on 13th April 2024
Source code. Pull requests welcome!
Tunepal has served traditional musicians faithfully since 2009 and is beloved by a generation of traditional musicians. WIth around 100K lifetime users who have performed millions of searches, each search represents a tune identified and maybe a new tune learned by a musician somewhere.
In recent years it has become harder are harder to maintain Tunepal due to increasing load on the old technology stack that makes Tunepal work.
With that in mind, I am proud to announce that I am now officially working a totally new version of Tunepal!
The new Tunepal will be 100% free, and built with the Open Source Godot Game Engine. It will work offline, with no dependancy on a back-end server and in time will support many new features, better tune recognition and the ability to load in tune collections, share tunes, organise tunes into sets. The source code will be freely available for anyone to take, modify and improve on. There is a prototype developed and I will share more details and a github repo to which anyone can contribute, in the coming days. I am excited fot the next chapter in Tunepal and look forward to welcoming collaborators to help bring this project forward! If you are a coder and you know Godot or C++ and have time to give this important project, then star the repo or fork it and start working!
Update: The build in the repo now has many of the essential elements. Transcription, matching, tune database. It compiles and runs on Windows and Android. Still a lot of work to do so please consider helping
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