Nodal Research & Development

Nodal is developed at the Centre for Electronic Media Art (CEMA) at Monash University, Australia.

Original concept: Jon McCormack
Project team: Alan Dorin, Aidan Lane, Jon McCormack and Peter McIlwain
Developed by: Aidan Lane

The original funding for Nodal research and development was provided by an Arts/IT small grant from Monash University.

Nodal Technical Papers

The following technical papers describe some of the design decisions behind Nodal, and details on its use and internal operation. Click on the [pdf] links to download the papers.

McCormack, J., McIlwain, P., Lane, A. & Dorin, A. "Generative Composition with Nodal, in Workshop on Music and Artificial Life (part of ECAL 2007), E.R. Miranda (ed.) , Lisbon, Portugal, 2007. [pdf]

McIlwain, P., McCormack, J., Lane, A. & Dorin, A."Composing With Nodal Networks", in Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC), Haines (ed.), ACMA, Fitzroy, Australia 2006, pp. 101-7. [pdf]

McIlwain, P. & McCormack, J. "Design Issues in Musical Composition Networks", in Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2005, Opie, T. and Brown, A. (eds), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. 12 - 14 July 2005, pp. 96-101. [pdf]