Musical Chess
Beth Block shot and edited this video excerpt of my piece ‘Kasparov vs. Deep Blue’ at last June’s concert in Eagle Rock. In this piece, a computer-chess engine produces music in real-time as actors recreate a famous chess match on a chess board which is wired to the computer. The music is a very literal representation of what the chess computer is thinking.
This is one of six videos from the ‘Cams, Cranks, and Computers’ concert you’ll find on YouTube. Enjoy!
October 14th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Whoooaaaaaa, cool. Did you write the software to do that?
October 14th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Indeed I did. I wrote a musical chess engine which outputs MIDI events. It was written originally in Processing (based on an old Reversi/Othello engine of mine) and then ported to Java.