[microsound] Interview 0.8.5: an audio software environment (heh)

[Anthony Saunders <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i made a simple somewhat-generative max/msp patch for turning audio 
files into evolving masses of sound... I discussed it with a few people 
online and they wanted to check it out so I've cleaned up an older 
stable version of it and made a little website for it.

http://www.overwhelmed.org/maxmsp/interview/

This is my first serious max/msp patch, so it's rather crude and sloppy 
but still useful for turning short audio phrases (20 seconds or so) 
into a large shifting, evolving mass of stereo sound. Use it however 
you like. If you make anything with this, I'd love to hear or hack it.

Fed the right sounds and with a little tweaking of the presets, it 
sounds quite nice. Fed the wrong sounds and it's boring or ugly. I'm 
still figuring out what "right sounds" and "wrong sounds" are and why. 
More sophisticated versions are in the works, I'm redesigning each 
patcher basically from scratch for a new version.

It's based in part on Kalerne 9 found here: http://kalerne.free.fr/
I've learned a lot about max/msp from the patches freely available 
there.

Requires tap.tools~ because I'm new to max/msp and using tap.pan~ and 
tap.crossfade~ was easier than solving those problems myself, and once 
I did that, i also used the pitch-shifting object. Possibly requires 
Max/MSP 4.5, but I'm not sure and I don't have anyone else to test it 
out for me...

hopefully someone finds this useful, whether to make sounds with or as 
an example of what can be done in max/msp with a rudimentary 
understanding of the program.

Anthony


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