ixiQuarks is an
experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...
software released by the
ixi software
ixi software is an open source experimental project concerned with building musical instruments where the interface is at the same time a meta-composition. The instrument becomes a pattern generator suitable for the performance of generative music ...
team, focusing on both live and studio production contexts.
ixiQuarks is a software environment designed for live
musical improvisation
Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of Emotion, emotions and Musical technique, instrumental techn ...
that allows for user interaction on hardware, GUI and code level. The environment enables innumerable setups with flexible loading of tools and instruments. The ixiQuarks consist of different types of tools: basic utilities, instruments, effects, filters, spectral effects and generators.
In 2008, ixiQuarks won the first prize in the Lomus international music software contest organized by the Association Française d’Informatique Musicale.
Association Française d’Informatique Musicale
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This software is written in SuperCollider
SuperCollider is an environment and audio programming language released originally in 1996 by James McCartney for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.J. McCartneySuperCollider: A new real time synthesis language in Proc. Int ...
and is part of an extended research programme exploring human-computer interaction in computer music.
References
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External links
Studio Toolz articleIxi-audio.netSupercollider.sourceforge.net
Musical improvisation
Electronic music software