Re: [microsound] Re:flash and sound (take 2)

[Andrew Rench <andrewrench@xxxxxxxxx>]

nice work Ian. 
some of your approaches to using Flash in a real time help me think about Flash as a different
type of tool than what I'm used to.
thanks

_andy

--- Ian andrews <i.andrews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Ian-
> >I'm very interested, but neither of these links seem to be working...
> >
> Sorry Andrew, my mistake.
> try http://sysx.org/microsound/
> 
> I just put a new file up that I adapted from one of the live performance
> files. It uses the random function to jump to random frames within movie
> clips and display graphics at random screen positions on top of a
> permutative cyclic structure. Its at:
> http://sysx.org/microsound/dreamhome.html
> This one needs a reasonably fast cpu to run properly. In the live version
> (which is full screen size and is much fatter) I use the keyboard to
> trigger off various movie clips and to jump to other .swfs.
> Now that I've thought about it Flashamp might not be so useful for me since
> I compose all of the music from within flash, importing lots of short
> samples which are sequenced on the time lines of the movie clips. Its
> really the same principle as mod files. Sending the samples and the
> sequencing information instead of the entire audio stream.  Flash, of
> course, is very unwieldy for this kind of work and tends to have a built-in
> randomness to it. But thats what I like about it. Its very aleatory. So the
> results are often clumsy but kind of interesting.  I also use compression
> as an effect, combining heavily compressed ADPCM 2 bit with MP3 and
> uncompressed sounds. This results in  quite interesting textures at
> incredibly low file sizes.
> 
> The ebom site still seems to be down
> 
> Ian Andrews
> Metro Screen
> Sydney
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