GMU:Max and I, Max and Me/Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht Pittelkow

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Interesting work

après l'avant a binaural electronic sound performance based on the piece "tenet opera rotas" by Karlheinz Essl.

First Max Patch

A patch that implements a very basic sequenzer and a FM-Syth.

File:FriedrichPittelkow_maxpatch.maxpat

Video to synth

Using the average ammount of red, green and blue present in the video to control the timbre of the synthezizer and movemnet of sound as well as the pericved luminance to controll the pitch.

File:video_to_synth_1_friedrich.maxpat

Sensing physical data

I used a homemade capacitive sensor as an input and an led as well as sound as an output. Such a sensor can be built by connecting two pins of the Arduino with an resistor with a relativly high value (I used 1MOhm) and a conducting object eg. aluminium or copper foil.

Capacitive sensing with Arduino

The Max/Msp-Patch recives readings from the sensor. There are dials implementet so calibrate the range of the sensor. This data is used to controll the pitch an oscillator and the brightness of an attached led.

Capsens 1 img FrPit.jpeg Capsens 1 sketch.png

Project: Exploring Audio-Visual

Idea

The main goal of the interactive installation is to create an atmosphere consisting of a combination of audio and visuals which can be shaped by the viewer. The viewer stands in front of a pair of speakers and is either surrounded by lights (or views a projection on a screen).

The viewer has the opportunity to shape the atmosphere using a smartphone or tablet. It should be possible to crossfade between different states of the installation.

These atmospheres shall represent different environments. E.g. a city or a forrest. The viewer could now mix the city with the forrest and experience this combinations.

Sketch

Max frpi 1.png

FL and FR represent the speakers (Front Left and Front Right). V indicates the viewer facing the speakers and the circles marked with an x represent the light sources.

Technical solutions

The interface the user is interacting with can be designed with OSC (TouchOSC) wich controls the max-patcher. Sound can be looped samples/ recordings and can be generated by max. For the lights LEDs in a case, which diffuses the light can be used and can be controlled by an Arduino which communicates with max.

Next steps

  • Get a greater understanding about the serial protocol (How can multiple LED can be controlled in different ways)