tonality to colour

BLJ's icon

Hi Forum

Would there be a MAX patch wich translate pitch in to colour

Regards
Bo

Gary Lee Nelson's icon

This is very subjective. I do recall a patch from someone you was
translating midi key numbers into a kind of color bar display. Perhaps
Andrew Benson?

On 9/24/07 3:04 PM, "Bo Lundby-Jaeger" wrote:

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> Hi Forum
>
> Would there be a MAX patch wich translate pitch in to colour
>
> Regards
> Bo
>
>

Cheers
Gary Lee Nelson
Oberlin College
www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson

Wesley Smith's icon

wes

On 9/24/07, Gary Lee Nelson wrote:
> This is very subjective. I do recall a patch from someone you was
> translating midi key numbers into a kind of color bar display. Perhaps
> Andrew Benson?
>
>
> On 9/24/07 3:04 PM, "Bo Lundby-Jaeger" wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Forum
> >
> > Would there be a MAX patch wich translate pitch in to colour
> >
> > Regards
> > Bo
> >
> >
>
>
> Cheers
> Gary Lee Nelson
> Oberlin College
> www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson
>
>
>

Chris Muir's icon

At 1:04 PM -0600 9/24/07, Bo Lundby-Jaeger wrote:
>Would there be a MAX patch wich translate pitch in to colour

Too wide an area for such a broad question. Here's a simple patch that takes MIDI pitches in and applies the Scriabin colors to a panel.

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

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BLJ's icon

Thanks for all of your input.
I realise the inaccuracy of the question.

I had something like the idea of scriabin in mind for live performance...

thanks again for good advise
regards
Bo Lundby-Jaeger

Gary Lee Nelson's icon

I responded that this is quite subjective but relating sound and color can
be very powerful. Personally, I don't worry that people cannot agree what
color goes with what sound. Make your own connections then use your eye in
the same way that you use your ear. After all, music is largely subjective.

On 9/25/07 4:19 AM, "Bo Lundby-Jaeger" wrote:

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> Thanks for all of your input.
> I realise the inaccuracy of the question.
>
> I had something like the idea of scriabin in mind for live performance...
>
> thanks again for good advise
> regards
> Bo Lundby-Jaeger
>

Cheers
Gary Lee Nelson
Oberlin College
www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson

joshua goldberg's icon

and remember that if the motion is sufficiently fast, many people's
minds will manufacture a relationship to the sound even if you do not
plan one.

On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Gary Lee Nelson wrote:

> I responded that this is quite subjective but relating sound and
> color can
> be very powerful. Personally, I don't worry that people cannot
> agree what
> color goes with what sound. Make your own connections then use
> your eye in
> the same way that you use your ear. After all, music is largely
> subjective.
>
>
> On 9/25/07 4:19 AM, "Bo Lundby-Jaeger"
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for all of your input.
>> I realise the inaccuracy of the question.
>>
>> I had something like the idea of scriabin in mind for live
>> performance...
>>
>> thanks again for good advise
>> regards
>> Bo Lundby-Jaeger
>>
>
>
> Cheers
> Gary Lee Nelson
> Oberlin College
> www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson
>
>
>

Roman Thilenius's icon

Quote: BLJ wrote on Tue, 25 September 2007 02:19
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> Thanks for all of your input.
> I realise the inaccuracy of the question.
>
> I had something like the idea of scriabin in mind for live performance...

the question is what is "pitch" and what is "color".

if you have a range of hertz values and you want to translate it to a range of rgb values this is probably not too difficult (but also not too interesting)

i find the most important part of audio what can be expressed in video is how fast things change.
spectrum (16 fft bins?) and power history can make great basic controllers for video effect input.

BLJ's icon

HI again
and again thanks for the internet :-)

I'm sure that in all aspect of composition to make the right question is the thing.
Thanks Roman Thilenius.
As an newbe im doomed to put daft questions, here is one:

when I use the patch wich CHris Muir so kindly attached
my MAX says quote:

• error: max: doesn't understand "min"
• error: max: doesn't understand "loses"
• error: coll: No such object
• error: poobah: No such object
• error: poobah: No such object

I upload a screendump.

I suspect that i have to construct a object ( colourwise) ?

Chris Muir's icon

At 9:43 AM -0600 9/25/07, Bo Lundby-Jaeger wrote:
>when I use the patch wich CHris Muir so kindly attached
>my MAX says quote:

It works for me here.

Perhaps there was some extra text on the clipboard, as well as the lines that start with # ?

-C

--
Chris Muir | "There are many futures and only one status quo.
cbm@well.com | This is why conservatives mostly agree,
http://www.xfade.com | and radicals always argue." - Brian Eno

BLJ's icon

Hi -C
A Newbe question.
Should'n the colour objeckt (bgcolor 100 100 100 ) be connected somehow !?

I suppose that the colour should show themselves at the lower part of the pacth ( Panel object ) !?
It doesnt, but maybe as you write I have copied something wrong :-(

Thanks for the patch anyway :-)
yours
Bo