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Hey Freesounders,

I just released an album of swarm-generated music via bandcamp: http://evanxmerz.bandcamp.com

The album uses two freesound samples. It uses richtcello's cello samples, and jppi_Stu's bamboo wind chime samples. Both are properly credited (see the bottom of the bandcamp page).

Here's the tagline for the album:

Black Allegheny is a collection of pieces composed using swarm intelligence. Each piece in the album was assembled using custom software that tracks the motion of a virtual herd, and relates that information to pre-selected audio files. This software is called becoming, and it was born from an exploration of Cage's graph and gamut techniques. These techniques were expanded into the domain of digital audio, then swarm algorithms were added.

Here's an explanation in video form: http://computermusicblog.com/blog/2010/06/14/black-allegheny-swarm-generated-music/

Thanks for listening, and thanks for the great sounds!