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Apotome is a transcultural browser-based generative music system focused on using microtonal tuning systems and their subsets (scales/modes). It was created by Khyam Allami and Counterpoint as a tool to help counter the cultural asymmetry embedded in modern music-making softwares, which share a bias inherited from Western music theory and culture.
Throughout the festival, Apotome will be continuously generating audio-visual material based on algorithms curated by Allami. During this time, anyone, world-wide, will be able to sign-up for a predetermined time slot and have the chance to take over the system and »perform« Apotome by manipulating its parameters. The result will be broadcast live both through a dedicated URL link to be launched at the start of the festival and within CTM Cyberia.
Mapped within a dedicated room inside the virtual multiplayer environment, visitors are invited to experience Apotome's autonomous and user-controlled output with spatialised audio in an engrossing 3D visual rendering.
Apotome will also be presented at CTM via a live networked performance and commissioned takeovers of its generative stream. Read more about Apotome and the other formats of its presentation here.
Khyam Allami: Concept design and direction, research, composition
Tero Parviainen: Software development, UI engineering, concept design, generative music system design
Samuel Diggins: Design and creative direction, concept design, UI engineering
OBXD, DEXED, and Yoshimi Web Audio Modules by Jari Kleimola
The development of Apotome was funded via the AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership with additional support from CTM Festival.