Peter MILLER

Peter Miller is an Australian music composer, sound-designer and digital image artist. Over his 30 year career, Peter has created numerous musical and soundscape works including The Violet Flame, Houdini and Love Vs Gravity and his recent 6 hour atmospheric magnum opus Strangeness & Charm which was commissioned by Qantas for their Sydney First Class Lounge. Peter's visual work has gathered much critical approval. His exhibition of mathematically created dark organic still images, biologika, was admired by DG Design & Creative Culture magazine for its “secret beauty hidden within numbers” and Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling personally chose Peter’s iterative image Red Portal for the cover of his 2008 anthology Ascendancies.

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MICROSPORE

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MICROSPORE, 2010, Generative Video Animation

Most people understand that mathematical principles are at work in the natural world in some way or other. We are all familiar with symmetry, repetition, and simple shapes and patterns. From snowflakes to eggshells, from sunflowers to starfish, the influence of mathematics is plain to see in nature.

My work deals with the deeper implications of this idea. From the very simplest of rules, I am able to make ‘lifeforms’ that seem to have characteristics far beyond what would seem to be reasonably expected from the modest instructions I have used.

This is a phenomenon called emergence; a complex behaviour that arises after only a relatively few simple rules are connected to one another. After a certain point in these rule-based systems, linear calculation breaks down entirely and the outcomes of the rules become literally impossible to predict. It is very likely that all life on Earth exploits similar mathematical processes to enable the extraordinary diversity that we see around us.

In Microspore the viewer examines some mathematically spawned ‘lifeforms‘ as if through a microscope. The floating, rotating, translucent, glowing, filamented creatures of this liquid world are numbers made corporeal. Much of what is seen in this world is phenomena that I haven’t explicitly coded, but instead has emerged spontaneously from the mathematics.

This version of Microspore has been specially re-designed for the Sanlitun screen and features my original music.

Authored: Peter Miller

Peter Miller – Microspore

Peter MILLER 是一位澳大利亚籍的作曲家、音响设计师、数字艺术家.在过去三十年的职业生涯中，Peter 创造了不计其数的音乐作品，包括The Violet Flame, Houdini ，Love Vs Gravity，以及最新的长达6小时的代表作—— Strangeness & Charm 。Peter 的静态图片展,biologika被 DG Design & Creative Culture杂志称赞为拥有“躲在数字背后的神秘之美” 。科幻小说作家Bruce Sterling 更是选择Peter 的作品Red Portal 作为他2008小说选集Ascendancies 的封面。

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MICROSPORE, 2010, 合成视频动画

大部分人都知道数学原理在自然世界中以不同方式存在。我们对对称、重复、简单的形状和图案再熟悉不过了。从雪花到蛋壳、从向日葵到海星，数学的影响显而易见。

我的作品是对这一概念的进一步延伸。从最简单的规则中，我创造出一种与众不同的“生命体”。

这是一种叫做“出现”的现象：一些相对简单的指令互相结合之后，这种复杂的行为就会产生。在这个系统的某个临界点中，线性计算全盘瓦解，指令的结果随之变得很难预测。也许地球上的所有生物都经历了这个过程而变得多种多样。

在MICROSPORE 中，观者们似乎是从显微镜下观察这些数学计算生成的生命体。这些漂浮的、旋转的、半透明的、闪闪发亮的被束成丝的生物只不过是这个水世界中的一些数字。我们在这个世界中看到的现象并没有被赋予明确意义，它们由数学原理自发产生。这一版本的Microspore 被重新设计剪辑，并配上了我的原创音乐。

Authored: Peter Miller