Sandpiles and Synthesizers: Listening to the Discrete Laplacian

Year: 2019 Authors: John A. Lind

Core claim

Abelian sandpile dynamics on square lattices can be encoded as MIDI and rendered as music whose structure reflects the discrete Laplacian.

Topics

algorithmic composition, abelian sandpile model, discrete Laplacian, MIDI synthesis, graph dynamics

Domains

graph theory, combinatorics, discrete dynamical systems, numerical analysis, finite element method, music composition, electronic music, sonification

Methods

firing scripts, MIDI encoding, square lattice simulation, parameterized synthesis, algorithmic composition

Media

synthesizer, MIDI data, square grid, online recordings, computer-generated audio

Source status

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