Bacteriophage in Granular Waves (xCoAx)

Stephen Roddy

Bacteriophage in Granular Waves (xCoAx)

Stephen Roddy

School of English and Digital Humanities

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Abstract

Bacteriophage in Granular Waves is a musical work and performance that adopts data-driven composition methods, generative systems and sonification techniques to produce a musical work from a synthetic virology dataset. It has emerged from a larger collaboration exploring creative and artistic strategies for the visualization and sonification of virology data. The system employs agent-based modelling to draw samples from the dataset and uses waveshaping and granular synthesis methods to map these data to musical parameters. The end results is a performance that is always in flux where simple waveforms are sliced into tiny sections and reconfigured into texturally rich tapestries that interweave through one another shifting and unfurling in response to the virological parameters represented in the data.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Publisher	xCoAx Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Pages	464
Number of pages	467
Publication status	Published - 9 Jul 2026
Event	14th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X - Palazzo Madama, Torino, Italy Duration: 8 Jul 2026 → 10 Jul 2026 Conference number: 14

Conference

Conference	14th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Abbreviated title	xCoAx
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Torino
Period	8/07/26 → 10/07/26

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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 13 Climate Action

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Keywords

Viral Intelligence
Generative Music
Computer Music
Sound and music computing
Generative Systems
Sonification
Virolog
Audiovisual
Media Engineering
Wavetable Synthesis
Granular Synthesis

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