Modular Albums
"composed of software or hardware modules that can be altered or replaced without affecting the remainder of the system."
"composed of standardized units or sections for easy construction or flexible arrangement"
Artists in Charge of Expert Systems
Mosquito Records 1995
an album of tracks, not songs
Club Night is System
DJ SET is Sub-System
Tracks are modules
Sounds are elements....
What is the DJ doing?
Endless Process
We Equate Machines with Funkiness (1994)
...we equate systems 
with our nature  ... ?
Syncopate to Generate (2006)
Conscious Arrays (1995)
Begninning to Understand (1994)
Systems Thinking
38 years of 
decision-making
diagnosis
prediction
interface
knowledge modelling
a computer program that aims at capturing a human expert's knowledge, making it available to non-experts
Early 90s.. 
artists begin to develop expert systems for themselves
 .. they needed to solve creative problems
the roots of todays open knowledge networks
system == tool ??
Virtual / Imagined
Physical
Natural

Expert Artists Understand the Big Picture
good systems are complex and dynamic
they reflect themselves within themselves 
knowledge is inside the system
systems can auto-generate elements and structure
for commercial gain!
software
networks
language 
composition
technology
micro computers
synthesizers
studios
media
culture
communities
sounds
communication
.. beyond "modular" ...
NeverEngine Story 

RBMA Madrid 2011 
Cristian Vogel
non-commercial
My First Cybernetic Album
music composed entirely
by realtime sound
generating modules
Trurl and Klapaucius
sing sweet software (2001)
 Stanslaw Lem (1973)
Give that process a name!
The NeverEngine (2007)
"Recombinance"
2006 
"Recombinant DNA, also known as rDNA, is an artificial type of DNA which formed by combining two or more sequences and strands of DNA that would not occur together usually".
Thinking way beyond Modular mixing
Ambition to Collide and Morph Systems
Finally leads to THE composers expert system "Kyma"  
Symbolic Sound 
"KYMA"
Symbolic Sound Corporation, Champaign Illinois, founded by Carla Scaletti and Kurt Hebel 1989
CERL Sound Group 
Uni. of Illinois 
in the 80s
The Recombinant Sound Environment

"..Kyma is a sound design tool that can be virtually anything you want.."
http://sylvain.kepler
1995
Power of Recombinant Systems Approach
there are no fixed rules 
of 
what can be combined 
or how
start anywhere, 
move in any direction
at any speed
stop anywhere
Continuous Process
Polymorphic Fun
Context Free
combine a finite number of elements in an infinite number of ways
Adaptar
Evolucionar
Descubrir
Conocimiento
musica - movimiento - trajectorias - infinito 
2001
1996
What is the composer doing?
(and a Capybara...)
Artists in Charge of Expert Systems
cristianvogel@neverengine.org
composer as constructor
"Cadavre Exquis" (1927)
Man Ray,Joan Miro, Yves Tanguey
beginning to understand!
KYMA Interpolates - Morphing 

beyond plug/unplug..

4-dimensional continuous parameter space
Music: DDEngine from Double Deux (2006)
(digital) on / off  
(nature)  everything in between
Music: SAGA from CD version 
side effect - 
they then become experts?!
From that time on Klapaucius teased Trurl unmercifully, making comments at every opportunity, until Trurl decided to silence him once and for all by building a machine that could write poetry. First Trurl collected eight hundred and twenty tons of books on cybernetics and twelve thousand tons of the finest poetry, then sat down to read it all. Whenever he felt he just couldn't take another chart or equation, he would switch over to verse, and vice versa. After a while it became clear to him that the construction of the machine itself was child's play in comparison with the writing of the program. The program found in the head of an average poet, after all, was written by the poet's civilization, and that civilization was in turn pro-grammed by the civilization that preceded it, and so on to the very Dawn of Time, when those bits of information that concerned the poet-to-be were still swirling about in the primordial chaos of the cosmic deep. Hence in order to program a poetry machine, one would first have to repeat the entire Universe from the beginning —or at least a good piece of it.

Anyone else in Trurl's place would have given up then and there, but our intrepid constructor was nothing daunted. He built a machine and fashioned a digital model of the Void, an Electrostatic Spirit to move upon the face of the electrolytic waters, and he introduced the parameter of light, a protogalactic cloud or two, and by degrees worked his way up to the first ice ageTrurl could move at this rate because his machine was able, in one five-billionth of a second, to simulate one hundred septillion events at forty octillion different locations simultaneously. And if anyone questions these figures, let him work it out for himself.
music: Engage In Out
And when the constructors were thrown into a dark and dismal dungeon, they promptly struck up a rousing chorus of "Sing Sweet Software"
The Cyberiad
Fables for the Cybernetic Age
mute the musak on this video by Philip Scott Johnsons and play DDEngine
Graphic score sketch for Pithoprakta by Iannis Xenakis
MUSIC