>bq. (neil, anthony, spencer, dietrich) are going to produce some
>material into the score. we (thomas, myself, stefan) could then use this
>material as our input and we all are able to reflect on the first
>shot……exchange material and go into the second round (checking if the
>structure idea works by the way)
This sounds good. I can make some saxophone recordings for the Boston folks to start playing with and see what they come up with.
There is also some interesting software that transforms images to sounds. I have only seen this used on Windows but I am sure that something similar exists on the Mac. (All the Boston folks are using the Mac). Metasynth does something like this, but I think that the students do not have it (not cheap).
>This all sounds good to me in the first place. But I also like Dietrich’s idea
> to have several interwoven processes/deveopments which are being
>presented in an always different manner due to the always different >combination of media.
One of the things that we can look into is using realtime video scanning via MaxMSP as a control input for audio generating/processing. Perhaps we could put aside a week or two to make some basic max/msp patches for us all to experiment with.
Alternatively, we could use images posted to this site as opposed to live video to generate/process sound in max/msp. This has the advantage of us focusing the work on specific images. Perhaps Claudius could direct our selection of images.
>So, if anyone has ideas about what these developments might be (i know
> Dietrich has some, and I’m also thinking of some) we could more easy
>think of the concrete content of a section as we have:
>* the corresponding excerpt of the picture
>* the process and the stage at which it is
>* the combination of the media together (at times) with an overall idea of the general setting
>I’d like it, if we would agree about these processes.
>(If you’d rather produce material before, I’d like that as well, though)
A handful of images (3-4) or even some QT movies (1-2) might help us get started.
I will not have time to record a full sax library, but I could post a dozen short clips for people to play with.
Let me know what you think. Perhaps we should stick to this board. I am pretty slow in responding between Weds-Sat morning. The other days I can check the site daily.
I hope that these comments help!
Best, Neil
