Onyx, I really appreciate you chiming in here! I just happened to read your blog after I wrote what I've described to the pd-list what you are doing with your controller. Luckily I was 100% right.
I have been thinking about a controller very similar to your's since several years. I know exactly what's going on in your mind. I have already built a sound module which is optimized for wind controllers and I do not see any reason for wind controllers to look like a sax or clarinet. There are many limitations with EWIs and WX5s. It was about time somebody went other ways. And I have to say once more that I really appreciate and like your live playing / looping. Ingo > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Onyx Ashanti [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011 12:39 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED > > I figured that I would chime in at this point. > > Every single note you hear, is being played, as in one at a time, as a > horn player does, into a looper which I use to layer everything very > quickly into an arrangement then deconstruct and reconstruct on a > musically relevant trajectory. There was nothing pre recorded or > preconceived. Simply a controller, a database of synthesizers and a looper > with effects. I am playing every single solitary note. If that sounds like > it is hard to do, you're right. > > As for not seeing how pd is used in this project, The controller is > merely 3 arduinos, running hans wonderful firmata/pduino software, > connected wirelessly to puredata where I created the wind controller > software and gestural systems. Without pd there is no system. It's all > documented from day one on my blog. No parodies involved. > > I would like an elaboration on how the system is "clunky" if you don't > mind. First off, I feel that it is pretty streamlined for a first > prototype made of cardboard that is only 3 months old. Two wireless hand > units and a mouth unit. If you have suggestions as to how I might improve > it at this stage, before my next stage or dev, I would love to hear it. > @marco, how would you make this concept more "beautiful" or "efficient"? I > am always a willing student in these regards. Do you have any examples of > said efficiency? Being an instructor, I would have expected that you would > have seen the blog link on the Ted profile and researched your position > before simply asserting that my concept has no value. > > @Tyler. You are correct in that I don't care about making it rain granular > algorithms (yet), I want to be able to express myself for fully using > tools available to me. Hans and others were nice enough to help me with > advice and code and it just happened that some people (Ted) other than my > immediate fans found it interesting. Even now, I still busk, but this > opportunity makes it a bit easier to realize some of these larger goals. > > The phone is used as a headup display for making sure all my sensors are > doing what they are supposed to do. > > @richie. I have been a pro in electronic music for 15 years. Google it. > > One thing that I and other alternative controller artists are realizing is > that we must be in the audience. Otherwise people can not see that you are > actually playing. That is why when I play clubs I play from the dance > floor and currently monitor with the club sound system which is hard but > allows a flow of ideas that doesn't come from separating ones self from > the audience. And from there people can see your fingers and gestures > carve the sound. > > This form of performance blends my desire to connect with my space my > music and my movements as intimately but, it should be noted as well, this > is a 3 month old prototype so that people are discussing it and I have > even moved from beta stage yet, is encouraging. > > > If you would like to hear what is possible with this concept, go to > www.onyxashanti.bandcamp.com/album/onyx-Ashanti-full-promotional-package- > download-2 Or feel free to ask me. > > > > > > Www.beatjazz.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
