aa-cell @ ACMC 2007
In his review for RealTime of the Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC 2007) Dan MacKinlay states:"The crowd favourite this year seemed to be aa-cell, a collaborative project between Andrew Brown and Andrew Sorenson based around Sorensonís open-source project Impromptu. Impromptu is a Mac OS based application, combining a plug-in-based architecture with a live-coding scripting interface. The result, in aa-cellís hands, is a complex, agile improvisational journey that pares composition progress back to the naked sonification of algorithmsóand, because this is the 21st century, the bloody thing churns out visuals too. As academically rigorous as the compositional technique may be, itís still plain old techno and wouldnít get a look-in the door of any classical music school in the country. aa-cell shares the popular focus that predominates in the live-coding scene, honestly reflecting ACMA's own drift from its high-art origins."
