Aljazar - Dave Griffiths

Aljazar presents a novel approach to live coded music. Using his bespoke game engine, Fluxus (which is written in Scheme) Dave Griffiths uses the isometric tile based game model, populated with robots as a live Generative ’score’. Using a game pad to control the robots, music is generated by the resulting interactions of the robots as they pass over audio triggers. Check out the interesting and somewhat esoteric sketches that provided the developmental framework for Aljazar.

‘Al-Jazari was an influential scholar and engineer who lived at the beginning of the 13th century, this project was inspired by his robot musicians who were designed to play at royal drinking parties.’