Sound and Movement….
My last post featured an image of the box I made and use to perform interactive computer music. I wanted to follow up with a post of what it actually sounds like. Inside the box is a Raspberry Pi 3 that is running Pure Data. When I perform a Smomid set 90% of the time I use my Mac and use Max software. As I get more into Pure Data I am really appreciating the simplicity of it. Also, Pure Data mostly processes audio on the sample level, while Max mostly processes audio according to milliseconds (there are ways around both of these, that’s why I say mostly). So if you are running Pure Data at 44,100 samples per second that is VERY high resolution compared to 1000 milliseconds. The end result is Pure Data sounds incredible, especially the reverbs, delays, with anything involving Granular Synthesis.
The following video was made at Trans Pecos in Bushwick Brooklyn in January 2018. It is a collaboration between me and Aarron Ricks, who choreographed and performed the movement aspect of this. In the beginning of the clip you can hear a long reverb, then some granular delays come in. Hopefully you can see what I am talking about with the high resolution. I performed this with one Pyramidi controller and the box with my raspberry Pi 3 in it. Please watch the video I hope you enjoy it.