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| "What are You Really Thinking?" | List of pieces | "The Voice of the Phoenix (1)" |
"Peer Pressure"
Tape piece, duration 5 mins 0 secs (2000, revised 2001)
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Program note
Peer Pressure is a simulation of a process which causes large groups of fireflies to flash in synchrony. This composition simulates 200 fireflies. Initially they are all flashing at random, but slowly they start to come into synchrony. Can a few mavericks resist the relentless pressure of the group, once it forms?
The piece was realised on the composer's home computer, using a combination of C++, Python and Csound. The sound used to represent the flash of a firefly is derived from a cicada buzz.
Peer Pressure is dedicated to Warren Burt.
Note: The piece was revised in 2001: the source sound used was changed and other minor changes were made to increase the effect heard when a large number of "fireflies" flash at once.
Performances, etc
- InterFACES Conference (Australasian Computer Music Conference), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 8 July 2000;
- "Disorientation" series (curated by Shannon O'Neill, University of Technology, Sydney), Lanfranchi's, Chippendale, Sydney, 8 April 2004.
- Spac{v}e series at Electrofringe,
Newcastle, NSW, 2 October 2005.
- Peer Pressure is on the CD "second iteration::audio", which was produced in association with the Second Iteration conference on generative systems in the arts, Melbourne, 2001.
© Gordon Monro 2001-7. Last
modified: January 22, 2007.
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