Re: My Revised MAX/MSP Looping/Effects Rig

["e t e r o g e n e o" <info@eterogeneo.com>]

Wow,  Krispen.
It's sound like you have a great tool with endless possibilities !
It would be great - when you have time - to listen some mp3s.

fabio
www.eterogeneo.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boise Experimental Music Festival" <khartung@cableone.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:16 AM
Subject: My Revised MAX/MSP Looping/Effects Rig


> Well, I finally did it.  In my quest to selfishly spend more time with 
>my 
> instrument (guitar), more time actually playing, and less time fiddling 
> with and staring at the damn computer while playing (which looks 
> absolutely ridiculous in my opinion), I figured out how to have my cake 
> and eat it too. I just finished my revised max/msp looping/effects 
>system. 
> I was very inspired by the Boise Experimental Music Festival, after 
> playing a set before Jeff Kaiser and Andrew Pask (of Cycling 74) the 
>first 
> night, and a workshop that Jeff did on the many approaches to using the 
> computer for live performance.  Andrew is actually using a totally 
>random 
> based max/msp system so he just plays his sax and let's the computer do 
> everything for him.
>
> Long story short, my rig is totally automated now, using a series of 
> random algorithms to control both my max/msp Kaiser Looper and functions 
> (everything from my scripts to basic functions like reverse halfspeed, 
> doublespeed, random speed, random buffer, random pan, etc), and all my 
> max/msp effect patches and parameters (including Reaktor as a VST), I 
>now 
> turn my computer on and play. No MIDI footpedals. No expression pedals. 
>I 
> just plug into my Fireface 400, activate my system, and let the 
>wonderful 
> world of randomness take over. So liberating! I don't even need to have 
>my 
> computer screen open.  It's like playing with another person whose job 
>is 
> to process my sound (like what Evan Parker has done with others), 
>because 
> I have no idea what sort of looping, effects, or parameters changes are 
> going to occur. I'm really liking this.  The interesting thing is that I 
> wasn't satisfied with the standard random object in max/msp, so I found 
> and used some max/msp abstractions written by Karlheinz Essl, which 
> simulate Brownian movement in micro-biological systems. Very 
>fascinating. 
> And of course, I can deactivate the random function at anytime, so that 
> while I'm playing, if I hear the computer do something really 
>interesting 
> that I like with the looper or effects, I turn the random functions off, 
> and it will sort of freeze in the last state or frame of looping and 
> effect parameters.
>
> More later...gotta pack for vacation now.
>
> Kris
>
>
>
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