Hello folks,

I've been struggling with Pd for a couple of months and finally I managed to kind of finish two main Projects I took along last Semester in my Masters.

Of course there could be a lot of improvement but nevertheless I'm proud of the results.

The first one is "The Sound of Nowhere", a self-sustainable sonic installation with a pretty simple and straight-forward idea: feedback.

And the second is "Contrapunctual Improvisation of Whatever", an Installation that works with voice input to create small phrases for improvisation. A little more complex than the previous, but rather funny.

For this one I used a little bit of an idea that I got here in the forum using fiddle.

I'm still organizing the source code and writing all acknowledgements before putting it online

Hope you like it!

Hi Pedro, very interesting use of feedback in the first one, quite evocative.
The second one is really clever. I'm quite impressed by the quality of the
piano playing, could you please explain how the sound is generated? Also
the interaction with the "player" is very well "interleaved"

Great Job!

Alberto

Hello!

Thanks for the kind comments, I really appreciate them.

For the piano sound I'm actually using a generic MIDI Piano Synth, if is what you meant with "how the sounds are being generated".

However, if you were talking about the phrases it creates, it actually mixes up the notes it get from your voice input with some concepts of "Symmetric Movement" I used as the main concept of this installation. This is an idea discussed by jazz saxophonist Steve Coleman as a kind of game of improvisation and it's quite interesting: so the notes that the piano plays are actually generated by an algorithm based in such concepts.

http://www.m-base.com/symmetrical_movement.html

I'll post the code soon, I'll let you know

Here are the codes with all acknowledgements:

http://www.partidoalto.net/wp-content/uploads/contrapunctual_src.zip

http://www.partidoalto.net/wp-content/uploads/soundofnowhere_src.zip

Hi Pedro, thanks for sharing your patches.
Regarding the sounds, now I can see the "makenote/noteout" to drive the midiout;
anyway the generic MIDI Piano Synth seems quite realistic to my hears.

Greets,

Alberto