I did a weird audiovisual thing - Mutable Transmissions

[colossus]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFcDNTCe_p8[/youtube]

Essentially, I converted the varying luminescence levels of projected video (via LDR sensors modulating a set 1-5v voltage) into control voltage for my modular synth. The synth was then outputted via a Critter and Guitari videoscope, forming a neato little audiovisual feedback loop. There's more details, including technical details and diagrams, here: http://www.asoundeconomy.com/post/14306 ... xploration

What I really like about it is depending on the original video and depending on how I patch the synth and depending on how I mix the visuals in real time, it will be different every single time. I doubt I could replicate a performance even if I meticulously wrote down every detail.

Maybe you'll like it?

[fuzzonaut]

Yes, I like this.


I'll give it a closer look later, when I don't have to pretend to be working.

[colossus]

Thanks!

[D.o.S.]

This is tremendous dude!

I know you're bouncing all over NE but I would love to pick your brain if we end up in the same place at some point about this sort of thing.

[spacelordmother]

The beauty of stuff like this is that it is so inherently tied to where and when it is because it is reacting to the (temporal) environment. Very cool, man.

I had an idea to use a distance sensor on a servo and a micro-controller to control parameters in Ableton/Max. That way depending on where you placed it you would get different rates and ranges of values based on objects in the room and speed of rotation. Just another one of my ideas that never came to be...

[colossus]

This is tremendous dude!

I know you're bouncing all over NE but I would love to pick your brain if we end up in the same place at some point about this sort of thing.

I'm always down to chat. Should be pretty stable in Western Mass for PhD during the next few years.

The beauty of stuff like this is that it is so inherently tied to where and when it is because it is reacting to the (temporal) environment. Very cool, man.

I had an idea to use a distance sensor on a servo and a micro-controller to control parameters in Ableton/Max. That way depending on where you placed it you would get different rates and ranges of values based on objects in the room and speed of rotation. Just another one of my ideas that never came to be...

That sounds right up my alley. I really love sound work that plays on the immediate environment. This piece doesn't so much, or at least not explicitly, in that I can project video anywhere and, with light levels being equal and all that, it should do (relatively) the same thing. But I want to go more down the environmental route. But really, this stuff is my "side project" from school, even though I try and wrap my creative work in similar discourses.