Some Samples
Some samples of the video and my work on the 3D effects The 8X video of people walking/driving through Pin Lane one day. A 2 second play seeing how the colour changes render. I’d never keyframed material fades before so wanted to see how it would work. A more thorough play with colour change and … Continue reading
The Equipment
I’ve got my patch completed on Windows now, and have been practising and getting used to 2 tracks I’ve created – I haven’t practised it with the 8 speakers yet but the movement is intuitive visually as well. The equipment I intend to use will be… My laptop, Max/Msp, M-Audio Firewire 410, 4 pairs of standard speakers from … Continue reading
My Instrument – André Michelle’s Tone Matrix
I’ve been playing around with André Michelle’s ToneMatrix Flash application and have recorded a few tracks into Audacity. The reason I’ve chosen the ToneMatrix is because it is very simple to use. The app is a sequencer that moves from left to right of a grid, activating whichever squares/notes are selected at the time. It … Continue reading
Portland Square it is.
Since my change of direction I’ve also decided on a location for my project. Portland Square offers 3 large atria with a good level of footfall and activity in each of them. It also conveniently has a rather amazing network of at least 36 speakers to play around with. There are 4 speakers per level … Continue reading
Preparing the performance
For the performance coming up I want to be able to demonstrate a possible musical application of my “Wacom Flow” system, and I’ll be making a track or two that I feel will really work with it. I want to create something that the system helps create a natural progression from the original sound. In … Continue reading
Change of direction
Since my last post (50 words) I have been running with ideas in my head and have changed what I want to do. It’s not a complete rehaul but a few adjustments. My old idea was to build a system that allows one user to control sounds within a space with the intent of influencing … Continue reading
What has 8 Channels and neater visualisation?
… My Sound App! Get it? It’s funny right. Oh, it also works in Windows now which is nice. I’ve got it working with 8 individual channels now, which will cover a 4X2 grid rather than a 2X2X2 cube. For the sake of being able to test it at home I’ve also made a simple … Continue reading
More Pin Lane Impressions
I’ve spent quite a lot of time people-watching in Pin Lane now. People really try to spend as little time as possible there. I think that’s down to a number of reasons: People don’t spend time in places where they don’t have an agenda. Pin Lane is narrow and offers nothing for people to do … Continue reading
Render Tests
Relearning Cinema 4D It’s been a long time since I’ve touched a 3D program, let alone tried to create realistic situations. In my second year I tried, with reasonable success, to put 3D animated text moving through a space. I achieved a relatively good amount of realism in the lighting and shadows of the text … Continue reading
Calvin Harris – Humanthesizer
A recent highly publicised example of Max/MSP, Ableton Live and Arduinos being combined was Calvin Harris’ Humanthesizer, shown below. The “Humanthesizer” works with a conductive ink designed by some Royal College of Art students called “Bare”. People from Sony Music Entertainment created the system which involves Arduino‘s which convert analogue signal (from the ink-human circuitry) … Continue reading
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