"Rainforest" by David Tudor

I turned my typewriter into a speaker for a recreation of David Tudor's "Rainforest."   

You can come listen if you wanna.    Further documentation to come.

"Blah Blah Blah Election 2012" v1.1

I have been working on a MAXmsp patch that is my comment on the election.

It's called "Blah Blah Blah Election 2012"

In it, I created an interface between two different videos feeds -- Obama at the DNC and Romney at the RNC.   For Romney's portion, I added a special timed jitter feature that makes him look kind of rainbow-ish / demonic / strange.

These videos both feed into a 4 X 4 grid of separate screens. 
A fader in the middle controls the amount each feed goes into the grid.

I run a video analyzer on each portion of the grid.   When it hits a threshold value (which I set) on its minimum color value, it triggers a sample.

For the samples, I recorded myself saying "blah blah blah" using 14 different notes, most consonant but a few dissonant.   Audience applause is triggered once the volumes of the "blah blah blahs" reach a certain volume.

Here is a screenshot of the interface:

 

 

Here is a video of my first attempt:

"I Am All Alone" v1.1

The youtube videos can be found here:

http://www.billbillbillbillbill.com/all-alone-all-together

This is all the tracks combined (to be refined later): 

http://soundcloud.com/blondebill/all-alone-all-together

This is me testing the idea at Best Buy: