ixiQuarks

{{Infobox Software

| name = ixiQuarks

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| screenshot = ixiQuarks.jpg

| developer = ixi software

| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2009|12}}

| operating_system = Mac OS X

| genre = experimental music, software

| website = {{URL|www.ixi-audio.net}}

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ixiQuarks is an experimental music software released by the ixi software team, focusing on both live and studio production contexts.

ixiQuarks is a software environment designed for live musical improvisation that allows for user interaction on hardware, GUI and code level.Magnusson, Thor (2008). [http://www.ixi-software.net/thor/ixiQuarksICMC.pdf ixiQuarks: Merging GUI and Code into One Creative Space] in Proceedings of ICMC 2007, Copenhagen The environment enables innumerable setups with flexible loading of tools and instruments. The ixiQuarks consist of different types of tools: basic utilities, instruments, effects, filters, spectral effects and generators.

In 2008, ixiQuarks won the first prize in the Lomus international music software contest[http://concours.afim-asso.org/home.php Lomus international music software contest] organized by the Association Française d’Informatique Musicale.[http://www.afim-asso.org Association Française d’Informatique Musicale]

This software is written in SuperCollider and is part of an extended research programme exploring human-computer interaction in computer music.