Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Class notes 2/3: Aiyun Huang concert

patcherargs--put it in a sub patch, append it with arguments, that way the patcher knows how many arguments to expect; when patch loaded, arguments come out as a list; this allows you to use the file in another place with reconfigurable arguments

***connecting gesture to sound in electronic music***  electronic music can be disembodied    ***charisma factor human vs computer***        ***scale factor: human sounds can't get as loud as a speaker***      performance by Aiyun Huang challenges instruments-plus-electronics model of electro-acoustic performance

How do you write a whole piece in Max?
He has 3 strategies:
-standard, formal, sectional structure (using a patch for each one, maybe)
-going through a set of processors (like pedals) all the time, can turn them on and off--serial technique
-parallel technique--everything happening all at once, windowing only some of those things

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VISUALS: you need four #'s to express a color on a pixel: red, green, blue, and alpha (transparency/opacity)

37 million numbers per second of video at low, standard-tv resolution

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