Tee hee Welcome to the list Onyx, and well done for cracking open yet another super-juicy can'o'worms for the list to chew on.
Props, Jb On 21 June 2011 13:10, Onyx Ashanti <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <http://www.beatjazz.blogspot.com/> > > -- > www.onyx-ashanti.ning.com > www.beatjazz.blogspot.com > onyxashanti.bandcamp.com > twitter.com/onyxashanti > facebook.com/onyxashanti > Germany+49 176 3543 7859 > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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