Ecology No. 2: Walls

Sound. Score. I've also renamed my previous composition from "Trees and Seeds" to "Ecology No. 1: Trees and Seeds".

I've been thinking further along the lines of the algorithmic organicism described in my last post, and I've begun to conceptualize some of my compositions as sonic ecologies. Though the individual behavior of the automata (which are analogous to organisms) in these ecologies varies greatly, the macroscopic form of the ecologies is governed by the same two general principles of reproduction and inhibition. The automata reproduce themselves according to certain rules, but I generally try to inhibit this reproduction in ways that produce interesting (and even narrative) soundscapes. My composition Walls, on the other hand, is a case of uninhibited growth: its automata are allowed to reproduce without constraint, and the result is chaos.