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PATTERNS OF SELF-ORGANISATION (IN SWARMS) (2022)
Joseph Callaly
A 24-channel electro-composition commissioned by the City of Melbourne, and performed at RMIT's Black Box Gallery and Storey Hall for the SIAL Speaker Orchestra Concert. Through imitating the properties of swarms, the work allows unexpected musical effects to emerge from a seemingly chaotic system. Thousands of individual grains of sound interact spatially to produce an enveloping musical performance, provoking at times both harshness and sentimentality. Originally created and performed on multichannel speaker arrays, a stereo version of the work is available below: