Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions is a series of duets performed using custom software which parses text in realtime and turns it into music. The performances explore the relationship between language and sound, transforming the act of typing into a musical collaboration.

Using contact microphones attached to computer keyboards, the software analyzes the text being typed and generates musical responses based on the syntactic and semantic patterns found in the input. Each keystroke becomes part of a larger algorithmic composition that evolves in real-time.