here is a pd patch I made with Gem, it makes sound based on the colours of a loaded video file, so if a movie has allot of greens it makes one sound and a movie with allot of red makes another sound etc.

It kinda works-i made it becuase I wanted to sync music with some Blender (GNU 3d app) animations

comments/advice welcome! (^_^)

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/colorsignal.pd

Hi dubtub,

I've a problem with randF (can't find it on filesystem)
could you provide it?

Alberto

Hi

Thanks for your feedback...sorry it's not working--Ive changed it from [randF] to [RandomF] which is a Gem object

Thanks again

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/colorsignal.pd

[randomF] help object from Gem documentation..please let us konw if there is any other problems..cheers!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/randomF-help.pd

Hi do you have an idea if anybody has codified the translation of sound (notes and chords) into light and colors? thanks Mick

Hi misturapura,

this could be interesting for you (there is a table with light wavelength and frequency correspondances) : http://users.telenet.be/wouterhagens/biogeometry/toonkleurvorm_uk.html

you can look the wikipedia article about synesthesia (very interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia) what you are interested in are sound -> colour synesthesia. Many composers and musicians and artists were synesthetes, I made a little research about it but it's mainly in french.

I've build a patch some time ago in which input colors are used to synthesis sounds, it's really basic. You have a phase mod, an fm, and a granular synths which take their inputs from color grids from which you extract rgb values, but it's not really conclusive.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/ColourGrid_SoundSynthesis.zip

Here's a synesthetic patch I wrote a while ago. This isn't the best one I've made, this one approximates an RGB vector based on anecdotes I collected from Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Scriabin. Somewhere I have a version that uses a python script to calculate overtones into the Thz frequency range, and spits out the colour that is most sympathetic to the pitch.

anyway, the resulets are pretty similar, ROYGBIV!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/synesthes.pd

Hi beautyfull community! does anybody know of any patch that detectes movements in a video and correlates sounds to them? for example using [pix_movement]...
I am an artist trying to use pd to control real time visual and sound effects during a musical and dance perfomance. Any ideas/comments about this are appreciated. thanks to all those who responded to my first posts! I am studying to understand better the prgram so I can make more specific questions
thanks a lot meanwhile!

peace
Mick

Hi

answering another question I went to the site of another pd user : http://adrjork.altervista.org/puredatatutorials.html

look up (v2MSy.pd), well I don't speak italian so I'm not sure... but It must be interesting + you've got a tutorial in english !

Hi there,

I'm a complete novice and have only been experimenting with PureData for a few days, and I need a little help. I'm creating a small sound art project for uni and the basic concept is deriving sounds from a video (I happen to be a synaesthete myself and find the subject endlessly fascinating!). Specifically, I will be deriving the sounds from silent films and then projecting them with their new 'soundtracks', so I need a patch from which I could get the output as an mp3 or similar music file. So far, I've tried adrjork's v2MSy, but can't quite get a sound output. Any other suggestions?

Any help would be hugely appreciated as my deadline is rather soon, and I have nothing so far...

do you have any experiment patches? if you could post some of the work, we could point you in a direction or dozen.