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Re: My Revised MAX/MSP Looping/Effects Rig
Sound clips on the way! Maybe next week...
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Kris Hartung
On Jun 13, 2008, at 4:32 AM, "e t e r o g e n e o"
<info@eterogeneo.com> wrote:
> Wow, Krispen.
> It's sound like you have a great tool with endless possibilities !
> It would be great - when you have time - to listen some mp3s.
>
> fabio
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boise Experimental Music
> Festival" <khartung@cableone.net>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:16 AM
> 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
>>
>>
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