D eam S uc u es
DANIEL JONES, Independen , Uni ed Kingdom
Addi ional Key Wo ds and Ph ases: li e coding, machine lea ning, music in o ma ion e ie al, ance, elec onic
ACM Re e ence Fo ma :
1 PROGRAM NOTES
D eam S uc u es is a li e coding pe o mance ha uses compu a ional audio analysis and machine lea ning
o na iga e and esample a hal - e aby e a chi e o 90s/00s ance music, c ea ing a li e musical collage ha
o ganises agmen s o audio om housands o acks by a e sing a mul idimensional ea u e space.
The sys em au oma ically mines his a chi e o sounds o ce ain ca ego ies commonly ound wi hin
ea ly ance and a e – animal sounds, speech, si ens, a mosphe ic noise – and uses hem o gene a e bo h
ambien ex u al and hy hmic sequences, using gene a i e pa e ns ha a e de eloped on- he- ly in code.
This is augmen ed by a peggia ed laye s and pads using no el so wa e emula ions o iconic digi al
syn hesize s including he Roland JP-8000 Supe Saw, Akai MPC imes e ch, DX7 FM syn h.
D eam S uc u es is pe o med wi h SignalFlow, a ee and open-sou ce Py hon lib a y o sound syn hesis
ha he au ho has been de eloping o e he pas decade, using Jupy e no ebooks as a eal- ime IDE. All
o he syn hesis algo i hms desc ibed a e p o ided o ee wi h he dis ibu ion.
2 PERFORMANCE NOTES
•Du a ion: 10-15 minu es.
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Requi emen s: HD p ojec o and s e eo audio inpu , ideally pe o med a e da k in a club en i on-
men .
3 MEDIA LINKS
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Sho ideo he e om a ecen pe o mance a 10 Yea s o Algo a e (Co sica S udios, London, UK):
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Licensed unde a C ea i e Commons A ibu ion 4.0 In e na ional License (CC BY 4.0). Copy igh emains wi h he au ho (s).
Daniel Jones. 2023. D eam S uc u es. 1, 1 (May 2023), 1 page.
Music P oceedings o he In e na ional Con e ence on New In e aces o Musical Exp ession
NIME’23, 31 May–2 June, 2023, Mexico Ci y, Mexico
