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RE: My Revised MAX/MSP Looping/Effects Rig
Hey Kris
I love your idea of using the computer this way! This is something I've
wondered about for many years, but never had the where-with-all to actually
create it. Please let us hear some examples.
-Qua
-----Original Message-----
From: Boise Experimental Music Festival [mailto:khartung@cableone.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:16 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: My Revised MAX/MSP Looping/Effects Rig
Well, I finally did it. In my quest to selfishly spend more time with my
instrument (guitar), more time actually playing, and less time fiddling
with
and staring at the damn computer while playing (which looks absolutely
ridiculous in my opinion), I figured out how to have my cake and eat it
too.
I just finished my revised max/msp looping/effects system. I was very
inspired by the Boise Experimental Music Festival, after playing a set
before Jeff Kaiser and Andrew Pask (of Cycling 74) the first night, and a
workshop that Jeff did on the many approaches to using the computer for
live
performance. Andrew is actually using a totally random based max/msp
system
so he just plays his sax and let's the computer do everything for him.
Long story short, my rig is totally automated now, using a series of
random
algorithms to control both my max/msp Kaiser Looper and functions
(everything from my scripts to basic functions like reverse halfspeed,
doublespeed, random speed, random buffer, random pan, etc), and all my
max/msp effect patches and parameters (including Reaktor as a VST), I now
turn my computer on and play. No MIDI footpedals. No expression pedals. I
just plug into my Fireface 400, activate my system, and let the wonderful
world of randomness take over. So liberating! I don't even need to have my
computer screen open. It's like playing with another person whose job is
to
process my sound (like what Evan Parker has done with others), because I
have no idea what sort of looping, effects, or parameters changes are
going
to occur. I'm really liking this. The interesting thing is that I wasn't
satisfied with the standard random object in max/msp, so I found and used
some max/msp abstractions written by Karlheinz Essl, which simulate
Brownian
movement in micro-biological systems. Very fascinating. And of course, I
can deactivate the random function at anytime, so that while I'm playing,
if
I hear the computer do something really interesting that I like with the
looper or effects, I turn the random functions off, and it will sort of
freeze in the last state or frame of looping and effect parameters.
More later...gotta pack for vacation now.
Kris