Graphics tablet - Midi controller and Pure Data

[ UPDATE!! For higher quality sound watch this here: http://www.vimeo.com/915430 ]
An electroacoustic performance realized with PD. Two 6min audio tracks(each are my own works - recordings) are sliced - deconstructed and slices are arranged by their spectral stability(noisiness) from low to high. This arrangement is mapped to the graphics tablet. X axis has the first deconstructed and arranged track and Y axis has the other. I'm using the midi controller to control some parameters in the sampling engine which I've programmed in PD. I'm also doing some stuff with the buttons on the electronic pen. Software used:

* Pure Data - as the main programming environment
* GNU/Linux as the operating system(Ubuntu Feisty with low latency kernel, running jackd)
* Reaper - for the post effects(reverb and compression, whose parameters are controlled in realtime from my PD patch - thanks to wineasio!)
* MEAPsoft - for slicing the master tracks and getting the spectral stability info about each slice(the data is parsed and given to the PD patch)

The graphics tablet is a cheap UC-Logic tablet.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• puredata
• tablet
• linux
• electroacoustic
• noise
• experimental

[actionist]

so the UC33e evolution midi controller is totally compatible with Ubuntu linux right?

[noissez]

yes, its a standard device. works fine with linux.

[touredo]

...the amount of crap you can produce with your computer. Amazing! So much control so little expression. This is pure existencialist crapola. Congratulations.

[noissez]

Well thanks for your criticism. Expression in live electronic and electroacoustic music is really a problem since the days of theremin and ondes martenot(and there are very few instruments that can actually beat them). I'm constantly thinking on this issue. If you were to play this instrument, you would probably feel that it actually feels expressive but fails to direct this power to the audience. Yes, indeed, it is a problem to be solved, thanks.

[touredo]

By being so construtive about it, I am shure you will overcome the problem even use it to your advantage. About instruments "beating" instruments, well I wouldnt know about that.

[noissez]

To clarify: Beating was used in context there. I wanted to say: "there are few instruments that can actually beat them in terms of directing their expressive qualities to the audience, preferably -out of the box-".

[metalsnake00]

wtf

[youarelackluster]

can you do a version where we can see the interface you coded for this?

[apothead]

shits whack

[friendofyou]

Nice T-Shirt, where did you get that? :)



[yt1946]

Hey - I am 65 years old and been doing experimental sound/music since 1973 - don't listen to the criticisms - this stuff you did is BRILLIANT!!!

[Beatboxbob]

@actionist pretty much any usb midi device is or usb controller. It's only when you start looking at webcams you're likely to run into problems

[kelly2000398]

this scared the shit out of my dog

thought aliens were comming or some shit

[smoke1witOb11]

cool but gay

[smoke1witOb11]

l but gay

[nepalnt21]

@touredo whats wrong with just messing around? not everything has to be a wagner opera.

[kickofighto]

@touredo Your a twat. Program this patch yourself and then run your mouth.