Re: sound to picture metamorphosis

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

The sun will do that to yah! :)

I performed a few times before 2000 with my PC and the Psychedelic Screen 
Saver.
http://www.synthesoft.com/psych/psych.htm

Nowadays comparison with the current stuff that runs in Windows Media 
Player 
is perhaps moot - though it also now works as a plugin for WMP - but back 
when I performed with it, I got a lot of exclamationary (in a good way) 
noises out of my audiences (after learning how to set the program up 
properly sound-spectrum-wise).

Having an Xbox360 is pretty interesting as well though it doesn't stream 
or 
accept streams as yet... The media player onboard the Xbox has nice, 
reactionary graphics - though not as programmable as in the WMP - and 
adding 
a webcam to the setup also adds functionality in this regard... Apparently 
the cam that Microsoft sells for the Xbox360 has additional sensors 
onboard 
that react to motion (most likely a games consideration).  When one has 
the 
'dashboard' interface up, the background graphic is from the webcam.  
We've 
had some silly fun waving our arms in front of the thing, causing 
watery-wavy (as opposed to Wavy Gravy, or perhaps not) effects to occur.  
It 
doesn't take much thinking to imagine this being used for a kind of 
performance-art painting routine, leaving brushstrokes that pulsate with 
music.

I've also thought of a cartoon about this that should emerge soon.. Hmm..

S.


From: "Nico Spahni" <nicosp@gmx.net>
> Lying in the sun, I've been thinking about a sound to picture 
> metamorphosis  - maybe just an early sign of a sunstroke ;-).
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> Wouldn't it be nice, if some entity (probably in the form of an  
>ingenious 
> program) could visualize what we play? And I'm not talking  about a 
> notation program or a spectrum analyzer. What I have in mind  is more 
>like 
> a painting that is created in real-time based on what is  played. I know 
> there's software (e.g Metasynth) that does the  opposite, that is images 
> are translated to sound. Any comments on this?
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> Cheers from Switzerland
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> Nico
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