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Swarm Granulation

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Swarm granulation, as a union of swarming behaviour and sonic granulation, holds much potential for the generation of novel sounds. Theoretical and practical aspects of this technique are outlined here, and an explanation of how musical interactions with swarms can be enabled using an analogue of the biological process of stigmergy. Two manifestations of swarm granulation are explained in some detail. Social criticality, an inter-particle communication that is driven by a critical system such as a sandpile, and its use in determining the rendering of sound grains, is introduced.

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  1. Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture,Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London, UK

    Tim Blackwell

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña Campus de Elvina, 15071 La Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero

  2. CISUC Dept. of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, 3030 Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

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Blackwell, T. (2008). Swarm Granulation. In: Romero, J., Machado, P. (eds) The Art of Artificial Evolution. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72877-1_5

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