Re: [microsound] Wall-E glitch

[g d <rupanama@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been experimenting with this kind of touch-pad performance capability
in SuperCollider3 using the MouseX & -Y parameters. I'm still learning the
SC ropes and I haven't figured out how to import audio files yet, but
touch-sensitive pads seem to be a very unique and powerful way to perform
live on electronic instruments.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am forwarding an interesting post to the Max list by Alex Noyes – note:
> text bolding is mine
>
>  believe it is kyma using a wacom tablet as a controller...
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>> "I could reassemble the Wall-E vocals and perform it with a light pen on a
>> tablet. You could change pitch by moving the pen or the pressure of the pen
>> would sustain or stretch syllables or consonants and you could get an
>> additional level of performance that way, kind of like playing a musical
>> instrument. But that process had artifacts in it, things that made it unlike
>> human speech, glitches you might say, things you might throw away if you
>> were trying to convince someone it was a human voice. That's what we liked,
>> that electronic alias thing that went along with it, because that helped
>> make the illusion that the sound was coming from a voice box or some kind of
>> circuit depending on the character."
>>
>> From this interview: http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_14930.html
>>
>> Alex
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