Eclectic I

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Creative Computing Major Proposal

Project Plan


Research

Audio Arts Major Proposal

Assets

Pre Production

Monday, September 17, 2007

MTF Completed Instrument

I am quite happy with the instrument I have created. It took a bit of playing around to be able to include 3 of the requirements set but it does. I can see myself using it to create some instrument textures of sound which I can record and layer to make a piece of 'music'.



Reference:

Christian Haines. "Music Technology Forum - Completed Instrument." Music Technology Forum - Instrument Project. Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, September 2007.

Friday, September 14, 2007

Forum wk8

Here is the video of Dave and I triggering multiple oscillators on a chip. We are using Cubase's MIDI sequencing capabilities to trigger the oscillators via a max patch of Seb's creation.




Reference:

Haines Christian. “Forum – Week 8” Level 4, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 14th of September 2007.

Sebastian Tomczak. “Forum – Week 8” Level 4, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 14th of September 2007.

CC wk8

Here is a quick use of MIDI DATA controlling MSP functions within my granulator patch





CCwk8zip

Reference:

Haines Christian. “Creative Computing – Week 8 – “MIDI and MSP.”” Lecture presented at tutorial room 408, Level 4, Schultz building, University of Adelaide, Thursday the 13th of September, 2007.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Forum wk7

This week is basically explained in each of the videos which is really quite handy.

Making a speaker pop via a Pot and a circuit being powered by the arduino



creating a victorian synth and controlling the rate in which the speaker is being moved via pot and LDR



controlling victorian synth via max patch



Triggering toy guitar via max patch



Triggering toy guitar via max patch with a a variance on the way the circuit board triggers the note



Changing pitch of toy guitar but patch not working (at least thats my conclusion as we are still able to use the circuit to control the pitch.) - I meant to email Seb and let him know but got swamped with work.



Reference:

Haines Christian. “Forum – Week 7 – Physical Computing (2).” Workshop presented at the Audio Lab, Level 4, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 6th of September 2007.

Sebastian Tomczak. “Forum – Week 7 – Physical Computing (2).” Workshop presented at the Audio Lab, Level 4, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 6th of September 2007.

Friday, September 07, 2007

CC wk7

This week was pretty cool. Although you will have to excuse the sound dropping in and out because my sound is messing up at home, I think its my sound card. :(



sound recording

zip patch

Reference:

Haines, Christian. “Creative Computing – Week 7 – “Sampling (2).” Lecture presented at Tutorial Room 408, Level 4, Schultz building, University of Adelaide, 6th of September, 2007.

Monday, September 03, 2007

Forum wk6

There was initial issues with the forum exercises this week. It was something to do with the serial port not corresponding with the windows version of the max patches. Christian tried to explain it to me but as I am quite sick I didn't really click onto what he was saying. However when we used the Mac's at uni everything ran fine on the OSX systems.

exercise 1.1

The light goes on when we push the button!





exercise 1.2

we can turn the square wave generator on/off via a max patch. I'm always going to associate the sound of the increasing frequency with an old school motorbike video game.



exercise 2.1

This was pretty cool in the sense I could create my own midi sequencer if I had enough components. But yeah basically I'm using a switch to turn a note on and off.



exercise 2.2

This was kind of cool, triggering the note with a square wave oscillator, but I preferred the control of just using a specific trigger such as a switch.



exercise 3.1

This exercise was slightly confusing as the pot which was sending control data didn't just control the value for a specific note, but actually altered all of them. I only had one pot so I was unable to test whether they would interfere with each other if there was a pot per not or not.



exercise 3.2

This was basically the same as exercise 3.1 but with a LDR in series with the pot. I realise now that I could have used the LDR to control a separate note value to the pot to test whether the two would interfere with each other or not, but I'm sick so thats my excuse and I'm sticking with it.



Reference:

Haines Christian. “Forum – Week 6 – Physical Computing.” Workshop presented at the Audio Lab, Level 4, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 30th of August 2007.

Sebastian Tomczak. “Forum – Week 6 – Physical Computing.” Workshop presented at the Audio Lab, Level 4, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 30th of August 2007.

Sunday, September 02, 2007

CC wk6

I spent way too long on this week. I put it down to poly~ once more. That object is the bane of my existence. But after hours of struggle I have conquered the beast (one can only hope that it is permanent victory.)

The only thing that I wish I could figure out would be to have individual samples for each voice if desired.



CCwk6 Audio Example

CCwk6 zip folder\

Reference:

Haines, Christian. “Creative Computing – Week 6 – “Sampling” Lecture presented at Tutorial Room 408, Level 4, Schultz building, University of Adelaide, 30th of August 2007.