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19.05.04 rand()%, streamed generative radio.
The 'sound machine' myth of the black box which can produce never-ending music, originated in the ancient world, but it periodically resurfaced during human history as a wonderful object which can play ecstatic sounds. In the last thirty years, thanks also to sci-fi suggestions and Very Large Scale Integration microchips, this object changed its status from legend to prototype. The algorithms to generate music have introduced the possibility to create autonomous musical entities, perceived as almost 'alive'. It's a primeval, maybe illusory, stage of artificial intelligence which, in rand()% is coupled with the on-demand distribution of Internet radios. The project, developed by Joe Gilmore and Tom Betts, collects the streams realized using this technique by electronic musicians which make available their never-ending, never-repeating music. It's the next stage of fruition of this kind of compositions, where the peculiar originality of software machines is streamed sequentially. This way, the user listens to the parametric compositions of the machines across the network through a continuous and programmed broadcasting. Thus, after many centuries, the 'sound houses' imagined by Francis Bacon in his New Atlantis and the musical pieces for dices, described precisely by Mozart in his 'Musikalisches Wurfelspiel', take shape in this project which exploits the amplifying potential of TCP/IP packets to endlessly offer its musical horn of plenty.