Concat Performer (2024)
The Concatenative Performer is a MaxMSP device I built using the
FluCoMa Library. This instrument allows me to analyse a longer
piece of sound or music and resynthesise it based on audio
descriptors. It does so by creating small segments which are then analysed for various properties (like pitch, loudness, color, spectral shape, etc.)
These small segments are then sorted and projected onto a 2D plane (near equals more or less similar). This plane can then be navigated (in the moment I use an Ipad and touchOSC) and the instrument selects a certain number of sounds which are close to the cursor, playing them back with a granular synthesiser. The distance from the cursor to each point determines different playback functions of each point (speed, filter, length).
As each point is a single voice, they can be mapped to a multichannel sound system. Superimposed onto this corpus is another map, which interpolates between different loudspeaker configurations, effects, filters and so forth. This allows me to map perceptual gradients in the sounds to specific loudspeaker set-ups or interesting acoustic properties of a specific room.
I use this instrument in the studio for composing my fixed media pieces but also to improvise in live settings in solo concerts or other constellations, often together with my other instrument, the Room.
These small segments are then sorted and projected onto a 2D plane (near equals more or less similar). This plane can then be navigated (in the moment I use an Ipad and touchOSC) and the instrument selects a certain number of sounds which are close to the cursor, playing them back with a granular synthesiser. The distance from the cursor to each point determines different playback functions of each point (speed, filter, length).
As each point is a single voice, they can be mapped to a multichannel sound system. Superimposed onto this corpus is another map, which interpolates between different loudspeaker configurations, effects, filters and so forth. This allows me to map perceptual gradients in the sounds to specific loudspeaker set-ups or interesting acoustic properties of a specific room.
I use this instrument in the studio for composing my fixed media pieces but also to improvise in live settings in solo concerts or other constellations, often together with my other instrument, the Room.
latest and reduced version of the performer, less functions but faster, more stable and less CPU and RAM intensive, which opens up the possibility to have multiple performers open with different datasets loaded.