Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner from East Palo Alto, CA. They live and work between Berlin, Johannesburg, and Brooklyn.




Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner from East Palo Alto, CA. They live and work between Berlin, Johannesburg, and Brooklyn.




Algorithmic Music Composition Using Approximate Mouse Coordinates
Computer Mouse Conference
April 29, 2021
An experiment in longitudal and cross-genre translation, Algorithmic Music Composition Using Approximate Mouse Coordinates, begins with a poem created over Zoom in 2020 as part of Present! v.3.0.0.0.  Participants were invited to provide me with four words from the text nearest to them. I went away for 37-minutes to turn their words into a poem of sorts. I screen recorded my writing process. Months later when I was invited to the Computer Mouse Conference, I decided to consider the mouse as a score-maker and divinatory tool. I documented the approximate location of the mouse on the screen during the original writing process (think about Benjamin Patterson’s, Ants). Then, I developed a simple algorithm that mapped the concentration of markings to variations in pitch alongside some improvisation in sequencing and layering.
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