A very nice experiment with metronomes:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/10/01/you-are-getting-sleeeeeeepy/

Thanks for the link,
yes it's intriguing with self organizing systems like this.
I've done something similar in csound, using a k-rate accumulator to
generate the metronome pulse, resetting the accumulator to 0.0 as it
reaches 1.0 and generating a clock tick.
Then one can increment or decrement the accumulator a tiny bit
whenever a "neighbour" metronome ticks. It behaves in a very similar
manner as the metronomes in the video. I've also had issues like the
"rebel metronome on the far right" in the video, a single (or a few)
element taking a long time to sync up. I had been struggling quite a
bit to get rid of such "rebel" elements, and thought it was something
wrong with my implementation, so it was kind of reassuring to see the
same thing happening with physical metronomes on a swinging table :-)
Oeyvind

2012/10/6 PINOT Francois :
> A very nice experiment with metronomes:
>
> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/10/01/you-are-getting-sleeeeeeepy/
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Oeyvind Brandtsegg
Professor of Music Technology
NTNU
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Reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TMZASCR-I

And the Ligeti connection is probably too obvious to mention. :-)

Phil Thomson
http://philthomson.ca/

On 12-10-06 6:23 AM, PINOT Francois wrote:
> A very nice experiment with metronomes:
>
> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/10/01/you-are-getting-sleeeeeeepy/
>
>
>
>
>
> Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
>             https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599
> Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe
> csound"
>