Evolving Sonic Ecosystems

This paper describes a novel type of artistic Artificial Life environment. Evolving agents, who have the ability to make and listen to sound, populate a synthetic world. An evolvable, rule-based system drives agent behaviour. Agents compete for limited resources in a virtual environment that is influenced by the presence and movement of the artwork’s audience. Through a link between the real and virtual spaces, virtual agents evolve implicitly to try to maintain the interest of the human audience.