Bacteriophage in Granular Waves
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2026-07-09
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Roddy, Stephen
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xCoAx Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
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Bacteriophage in Granular Waves is a musical work and performance that adopts data-driven composition methods, generative systems and sonification techniques to produce a musical work from a synthetic virology dataset. It has emerged from a larger collaboration exploring creative and artistic strategies for the visualization and sonification of virology data. The system employs agent-based modelling to draw samples from the dataset and uses waveshaping and granular synthesis methods to map these data to musical parameters. The end results is a performance that is always in flux where simple waveforms are sliced into tiny sections and reconfigured into texturally rich tapestries that interweave through one another shifting and unfurling in response to the virological parameters represented in the data.
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© 2026, the Author.
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Future Humanities Institute , SDG 13 - Climate Action , SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production , Viral intelligence , Generative music , Computer music , Sound and music computing , Generative systems , Sonification , Virolog , Audiovisual , Media engineering , Wavetable synthesis , Granular synthesis , Music , Media Technology
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Roddy, S 2026, Bacteriophage in Granular Waves. in M Verdicchio, L Ribas, A Rangel & M Carvalhais (eds), xCoAx 2026: Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. xCoAx Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, pp. 464-467, 14th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Torino, Italy, 8/07/26.
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