Tag Archives: Leonardo Electronic Almanac

(imaginary) introductions by io

By Han-earl Park | Published: May 5, 2009

Some imaginary statements by io 0.0.1 beta: Greetings! I am io 0.0.1 beta, an interactive, semi-autonomous, non-human technological artifact—a musical automaton. I operate as parts of a real-time cyborg ensemble—a socio-technical/socio-musical network—in which the primary protocol is improvisation. I am, perhaps, an improviser and a social machine. from the abstract of ‘io 0.0.1 beta: ironic [...]

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beta test 11-10-08: preamble

By Han-earl Park | Published: November 25, 2008

frankenmusic(s) Almost eight years ago, when io-to-be was a bunch of discorporate code fragments, Sara Roberts remarked that the enterprise of constructing a machine improvisers wasn’t so much megalomanic as Frankensteinian. Fifteen days ago, during the break between beta test sessions, Franziska Schroeder asked a pithy question that cut to the core of this enterprise: [...]

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hp->midi early report

By Han-earl Park | Published: November 7, 2008

One area in which I’ve been concerned with the question of optimization vs. elegance is in the hp->midi word (a ‘word’ is Forth parlance for function / procedure / subroutine). This word takes the hp_ values (with a range of -hp_range/2 to hp_range/2), which io’s cognitive innards generate, and translates them into legal MIDI control [...]

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In Conversation with an Automaton

By Han-earl Park | Published: July 1, 2008

‘In Conversation with an Automaton: Identities and Agency in a Heterogeneous Social and Musical Network’ [PDF], my article on io 0.0.1 beta, is published in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

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