Playmodes

Playmodes

Playmodes is an art research collective. This is its sound experiments repository. We hand-code our digital instruments with open-source tools (Ableton is banned at home). We collaborate with contemporary music interpreters. We compose scores for string quartets, choirs, piano, pipe organs, wind quintets or chamber orchestras. We dig into the data sonification waters, turning stars into music. And above all, we love deep and weird computer music. Check out our complete audiovisual work here: www.playmodes.com

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Latest episode

Apr 12, 2026

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Episodes

Exoprophet 07.02.2018

An output from the ongoing research software for algorithmic composition. MIDI notes are generated through sets of harmonic and rhythmic rules, which include probabilistic models. These notes are then used to feed a synthesizer.

SAMURAI 15.12.2017

some of the individual tracks for the cluster installation present at Day for Night Festival, Houston in December 2017

BLOCKS 15.12.2017

some of the individual tracks for the cluster installation present at Day for Night Festival, Houston in December 2017

Cluster @ DayForNight 14.12.2017

A stereo mixdown of the soundtrack for the "Cluster" light and sound installation. Original soundtrack is 8 channel, therefore some content may sound weird in the stereo mixdown...

Inflat 31.10.2017

Inflat by Playmodes

Beyond: 16 channel light & sound installation 07.10.2017

a stereo downmix of a 16 channel audio soundtrack for Prague's Signal Festival. Premiered on October 2017

Chartres en Lumiere 16.09.2017

The full soundtrack for playmodes' installation in the Chartres en Lumiere light festival

Still Life 01.09.2017

Another soundtrack for a light and sound installation. It represents a sunset in the wood.

Urbs 30.08.2017

Urbs by Playmodes

Discover & Rise 24.08.2017

Soundtrack for a light and sound installation at Chartres light festival...

Parabòlic (full) 13.07.2017

A recording of the Parabòlic audiovisual show soundtrack, performed automatically (through a MIDI system) on the Gaudi's "Palau Güell" Organ (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uq1dztVh9SM/UxWX5yKCTbI/AAAAAAAAHlI/UVUQdWg7xwo/s1600/orgue-palau-guell.jpg) Conceived as a work of architectural sonification, as well as visual music, the composition is structured into 5 movements (formation, entropy, order and m...

Impressions Ok 24.05.2017

Impressions Ok by Playmodes

Nine Crystals 24.05.2017

Nine Crystals by Playmodes

Spring Rites 24.05.2017

Spring Rites by Playmodes

Parabolic Out (Blancafort's Pipe Organ @ Palau Güell) 21.05.2017

A recording of a performance in the Pipe Organ at Barcelona's Palau Güell. The track is a fragment of a larger piece to be premiered on September 2017, as part of an audiovisual show which will consist in a large video-projection over the Antoni Gaudiís parabolic dome, accompanied by the pipe organ soundtrack. Music has been made specifically for this organ, and it is the result of a large researc...

Cluster Noises 31.12.2016

A selection of some of the noise scenes generated algorithmically for the "Cluster" light and sound installation. Sound is generated by analising pixels in a video, and transforming pixel luminance into amplitude of partials, or frequency of a band-pass filter bank applied to white noise.

Relief, feat. Gerard Vallverdú & Edu Frigola 10.12.2016

Final piece for a projection mapping in a heritage site in Barcelona. An electronica base with some sax and guitar recordings by Gerard and Edu

Algorithmic_3: Strumming 11.09.2016

A collection of simple algorithmic music experiments created with a self-made software tool. It explores harmonic motion based triggering of notes, and modal harmony mapping and sequencing of pitches. Just 1 instrumental layer is involved in each composition. By the moment, these are just studies, but will evolve into something serious in the future.

Algorithmic_1: Augmented Glass 11.09.2016

A collection of simple algorithmic music experiments created with a self-made software tool. It explores harmonic motion based triggering of notes, and modal harmony mapping and sequencing of pitches. Just 1 instrumental layer is involved in each composition. By the moment, these are just studies, but will evolve into something serious in the future.

Algorithmic_2: Arabian 11.09.2016

A collection of simple algorithmic music experiments created with a self-made software tool. It explores harmonic motion based triggering of notes, and modal harmony mapping and sequencing of pitches. Just 1 instrumental layer is involved in each composition. By the moment, these are just studies, but will evolve into something serious in the future.

MindTrap 31.08.2016

another track for AV

Strip 31.08.2016

a cinematic drone-noise introduction for an audiovisual show.

Wind Waltz 20.07.2016

A wind section waltz for an audiovisual show

Cluster Two 25.03.2016

Second in the series... expect more of this kind...

Cluster One 20.03.2016

First of a series of harmonic and non-harmonic clusters

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