Generative open graphic score #1

Generative open graphic score #1 is a work that uses the software program Touchdesigner to design and build generative processes that create an open graphic score/notation. In performance the digital score produces a plethora of graphic symbols—from simple ink blot-esque dots and abstract globular shapes to complex webs of broken grid patterns interacting with sharp and angular geometric shapes. The electroacoustic aspects of this work utilize mixer feedback. Mixer feedback is created when the inputs of the mixer are routed back into its outputs to create a (feedback) loop. Manipulating the mixer's, faders, dials, and buttons creates unpredictable electronic sounds ranging from simple and harmonious to chaotic and noisy. The setup for generative open graphic score #1 consists of an instrumentalist patched into a mixer with feedback loops being played by another performer. In this novel electroacoustic setup, the sounds, and timbres of the two instruments can clash and contrast or synthesize and melt together. In performance, the instrument patched into the mixer transmutes into a noise-laden super-instrument that in turn can mutate the behavior of the electronic sounds together with the mixer performer. I have dubbed this live electroacoustic system/process as 'Instrumentalist and Mixer Feedback Transmutation' (IMFT).