I know at least Sarah and I were interested in procedural generation and using algorithms and formulas to make sound and visuals. I stumbled across this awesome portfolio site for a guy who makes art using Processing.org and a bunch of particle attractors and fractal computations.

Complexification

Check it out. It's stunning. The only drawback is that these are missing music...... for now <_<. I'd be particularly interested in trying to get some sound evolving out of the "Bubble Chamber" or "City Traveler" demos. He provides all of the source code and encourages manipulation, so I figured, why not?

Does anyone very familiar with processing suggest using the Ess or Minim library? I've used both and each with different successes and drawbacks...

Most of my previous entry still applies~

I'm a senior in the college scholar program studying Interactive Multimedia Design. My main focus is on digital games but I'm generally fascinated by interdisciplinary creative work and especially interactivity as a design factor.

I've taken 120 and 220, composed for games in CIS300 and CIS400 as well as a few independent projects. I played the viola for 10 years so some theory background a bit of practicality. I love diatonic pieces.

Last spring I studied in Wellington, New Zealand, and took a course on cinematics, only to discover that I hate cinematics. I'm definitely not in this to make a film or work with film or score for film (though soundtracks are an all time favorite genre). My interests lie in creative visualizations and music on the fly, hopefully informed or incorporating users in real time. I LOVE working with Processing and have made several different interactive visualizations, with and without sound. It's always fun for me to create languages of association - turning motion into music or rhythm into pictures or saturation into volume. And of course, it's always best if there's some sort of game involved.

Design should be fun, after all, and it's never inappropriate to play.

Hoping to have viola/violin duet vs. John Burges and his synth leads. Could possibly have some enjoyable theatrics to go along with it.

Basically mixing techno stuff with some classical composition and having them toy back and forth before coming together.

Thinking about filters we could put onto the viola/violin through PD to make them more malleable during the performance, but that might not happen....

Without a password I apparently cannot get ReWire enabled in Live (StudioD), and therefore Reason refuses to chit chat with Live, and I fail totally at accomplishing what I had intended to.

Any suggestions?

When rendering a file to a .wav in Live, I wind up getting a popping noise where I'm supposed to have a drum. --- It plays fine in Live, anyone know what's going wrong in the rendering process?

Hello!

I'm a sophomore doing the college scholar program. My 'major' is Interactive Multimedia Design. My main focuses are on interdisciplinary projects, and the main focus of that is definitely game design. I've been working with the game design initiative at cornell (GDIAC) for three semesters now and love the sort of creativity that comes out of combining computers and the fine arts.

My big project for this semester is a game that uses MIDI data to influence and shape a creature, imbuing it with different abilities and traits based on the traits and musical properties of the MIDI data. I've got a team of five right now but we're still looking for a hardcore programmer!!! We've also applied for the MTVUniversity's Digital Incubator project. If we get the grant, it'll be $11,000 towards the project (read: keyboards, new shiny computer, 3D modeling software, music software, and an X360 if we decide to use their new game design platform, yum).

Music background? I played the viola for ten years, know basic music theory, and just love music. I'm definitely not a stylish music listener or whatever you'd call it. I listen to pop songs (GASP) but my main likes are techno and celtic music. All time favorite artist is Hevia, who works on electric bagpipes. It just doesn't get any better than that.

Just doing this so that hopefully I'll be able to access this at home and work on it there.

No idea if I'm doing this right or not, if this is where I'm supposed to post or not, or if this file is what was intended. The site was down so I couldn't access it while I was working. In summary: Reason has a lot of really awesome knobs and switches which do very funky things when you manipulate them. All I did for this project was play out something in d on the keyboard and then automate all the switches to make it sound creepy. Tell me what you think?

OH! And there's a very natural break halfway through this piece, and that's actually what I'd like to consider the end. So ignore everything after it.

When it says that Studio clock-in passwords are initially set to our Cornell ID, this means the new ID right? Because I have been trying to reserve time tomorrow for the past half hour submitting every possible variation on all the Cornell IDs I can think of and it's STILL telling me I've got the wrong password, and I can't reserve any time :( Anyone know where I went wrong?

Chelsea

PS Uber sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place.

It works! I am amazed!

I'm Chelsea Howe, I'm in the College Scholar program and my topic, in short, is video games, but the long version is Interactive Multimedia Design. I'll be studying the interaction of technology and creativity, digital fine arts, and general creative writing and design.

As far as music, I started writing songs in second grade, thinking I'd be the next Raffi or something. I won a scholastic composer's award in fifth grade for a wretched piece of music on my viola, which I continued to play for nine years and am still sorta decent at. I can bang on a piano, and handle some celtic wind instruments (woo penny whistle!). I've taken music theory 105 and now I want to step back from the classical framework and try something new :D Can't wait to see where this goes.