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Sound clips on the way! Maybe next week... ************************ Sent from my iPhone Kris Hartung On Jun 13, 2008, at 4:32 AM, "e t e r o g e n e o" <info@eterogeneo.com> wrote: > 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 > www.myspace.com/eterogeneo > > > ----- 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.3.0/1501 - >> Release Date: 13/06/2008 6.33 >> >