A series of images, audio files, texts, videos relevant (?) to the project.


TFT&I – iMAL

I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines chirp?’ This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’ and ‘chirp’.

AUTOMATIONISM: Easy to use modular synth software – very hackable.
Excerpt from The bird and the machine from Loren Eiseley (1952)

The original paper for the NEAT algorithm (Efficient Evolution of Neural Network Topologies)
James Merill’s Syrinx
Vaneechoutte.1997. Bird song as a possible cultural mechanism for speciation
Carefully observing the machine’s writings