Electroacoustic Freakout

An ‘electroacoustic freakout’, via Livid Instruments:

I’ve been working on some new tools for our controllers, and in the process of prototyping some effect chains, I dug out this old Max patch of mine. Based on the resonators~ object from CNMAT (cnmat.berkeley.edu), it creates sounds based on “exciting” a model of a resonant body. Of course, because it is on a computer, it is super screwy. Because it is based on a physical model, I can claim a lofty “electroacoustic” lineage.

I quickly got distracted from my initial task to see if I could create some interesting sound processors from it, and hooked it up to my block. The grid of rubber buttons quickly revealed themselves as an ideal companion for an electro-acoustic freakout in which I could simultaneously feel like Sun-Ra and Stockhausen. But, really, I’m just getting sidetracked. I got to get back to work, and I hope you like the sounds…

13 thoughts on “Electroacoustic Freakout

  1. I have no idea how to use max for live but if I could create a patch like this I would definitely create some weird stuff I love what you could do with max but I have no idea about coding.

  2. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  3. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  4. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  5. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  6. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  7. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  8. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  9. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  10. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  11. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

  12. It's not that hard. I guess it's even easier to learn Max in all its quirkyness if you don't have any (or many) preconceptions about what patching/programming means. Give PureData (http://puredata.info) a try which is essentially the free version of Max (with some differences). Or grab a demo version of Max and try if you can't do something better than shown in the video above in a few days of light usages within first installing the software. Shouldn't be too hard …

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