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Selective Retention: Interfacing the Past through Queries and Graphs (2025)

Bjarni Gunnarsson

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‘Selective Retention: Composing through Queries and Graphs’ reflects on composing through software systems while focusing on reinterpreting musical materials through computational methods. The exposition examines two projects that utilise software tools as temporal portals, merging algorithms with composition to create new musical contexts. It highlights the evolving relationship between these tools and their source materials, emphasising a process of iterative approaches and adaptation. The text also explores the emergent nature of creative intention and the importance of addressing local details in sound and coded data. Within the exposition, software applications are exposed, the ideas behind them are discussed, and examples of music composed with them are presented. Download Accessible PDF
typeresearch exposition
keywordsComputer Music, Generative Algorithms, Sound Analysis, Data-Driven Sound, Algorithmic Composition, Network Models in Music., Artistic reserach
date28/10/2025
published28/10/2025
last modified28/10/2025
statuspublished
affiliationRoyal Conservatory Den Haag / Institute of Sonology
copyrightBjarni Gunnarsson
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2938321/3620117
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2938321
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue36. 36


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