neon/twilight

chirashi

CHIRASHI

a swarm-based research musical instrument

for Windows + external MIDI

Created as part of my research degree in swarm music, Chirashi is a generative, collaborative musical instrument that simulates an autonomous swarm of musical agents that create music as you guide their behaviour and shape their environment.

Your musical canvas is an n-dimensional space (n = number of musical parameters you want to explore) populated by a flock of agents that wander and swarm, interacting with each other and with objects you place to create new and surprising patterns in space and sound.

Chirashi is in development and will be available when ready!

Listen to some sample recordings made in Chirashi:

sample/tracks

CHIRASHI SAMPLE 1
CHIRASHI SAMPLE 2
CHIRASHI SAMPLE 3
CHIRASHI (EARLY VERSION) SAMPLE 4
CHIRASHI (EARLY VERSION) SAMPLE 5
CHIRASHI (EARLY VERSION) SAMPLE 6
CHIRASHI (EARLY VERSION) SAMPLE 7
CHIRASHI (INITIAL PROTOTYPE VERSION) SAMPLE 8

demo/videos

See Chirashi in action:

EQUINOX

CONSONANCE/DISSONANCE

Chirashi is written in C++ by Daniel Waghorn, and uses:

openFrameworks, DirectX, OpenSteer, libxml2, STK (The Synthesis Toolkit)