Color a Sound
posted May 10th 2010 12:00pm by Mike Szczysfiled under: digital audio hacks
This is an interesting take on a music box. [Blair Neal] is using an overhead projector with a roll of transparency to make a synthesized music box. A camera watches the projected image and feeds data to Max/MSP to produce the sounds. Customization merely requires creative image analysis. In this case, different colored pens or different tracks can be assigned to a sound with the speed of the track based on how fast you wind the transparency spool.
Very cool! it wold be nice to advance to something more “gestural” (I mean, more fluid drawings)
and eventually make the inverse to “print” a music on a new way