The program is developed in Python on the Macintosh, and will ultimately be portable to many platforms. This audio documentary was created exclusivly from sound recorded in Philadelphia during the republican national covention, august 2nd and 3rd. This project was completed with the assistance of Dan Devivo and Joseph Mathew. The equation works by successive iterations, the output becoming the new input. This process, in some cases, is repeated possibly thousands of times before reaching an equilibrium.
Many different equilibriums emerge, having periods that bifurcate as q increases.
The numerical output of each equation, the precompositional material of the work, is used to control musical material in three ways. Each of the three equations can be set at independent speeds by changing their ratio of the master rate. This allows three streams of beats at proportional speeds. The second application of this data is using the numerical output as a scalar of a musical attribute. For example, the range from 0 to 1 can be treated as the range from left to right in the stereo field.