Description
Paul Turowski · 2025
A digital gameful composition for any three pitched instruments, distributed as a Max patch that the players run themselves. Up to three player-performers use pitched sound to shape and activate an energetic grid, and the work of playing is split three ways:
- one player creates and maintains the rhythmic pulse;
- another guides movement across the map-score by playing sustained pitches;
- the third activates “planets” by improvising within different musical scales.
The roles swap during a performance. Players are assisted by autonomous agents, which collect XP across three cycles.
Realisations are published by the Riot Ensemble (v1.0) and by Csaba Király, Samodai Bence János and Márton Gábor Szives (v1.04), along with an explainer video from the composer.
source — the composer’s release page, with both realisations · described in Turowski, Fukuda & Hutchinson, Gameful Compositions in Interactive Computer Music, Springer, pp. 28–29
video: H3 (2025), digital game piece for 3 pitched instruments — Paul Turowski, YouTube
images: Paul Turowski, paulturowski.itch.io