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Forms is a real-time audiovisual synthesis exercise.

Driven by a set of rules for graphic generation based on randomness and probability, a custom software proposes a series of visual compositions created in realtime and never repeating.

These scores can be framed within the tradition of graphic musical notation that gained strength among twentieth-century composers and which allowed music to be released from tone, bars and the rigidity of classic staves.

Thanks to a real-time "sonification" engine written in MAX/MSP which reads (using the Syphon external) graphics created in realtime with Processing, images are transformed into sound using spectral synthesis algorithms. A header runs through the image from left to right, interpreting that small vertical fragment of the image.

Forms is periodically evolving with new graphic and sonic algorithms, and is being permanently streamed at Playmodes’ Twitch channel, 24 hours a day during the pandemia lockdown.

Thanks to a real-time "sonification" engine written in MAX/MSP which reads (using the Syphon external) graphics created in realtime with Processing, images are transformed into sound using spectral synthesis algorithms. A header runs through the image from left to right, interpreting that small vertical fragment of the image. 

Forms is a real-time audiovisual synthesis exercise.
Driven by a set of rules for graphic generation based on randomness and probability, a 

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http://akihikomatsumoto.com/maxmsp/
Other Plugins.
http://akihikomatsumoto.com/download/
Sample Pack
https://akihikomatsumoto.bandcamp.com
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1tZMmxzZbvNu6klyKXa0L1?si=2JZaFeLbREi-UownD8POSg

Graphic Score by PD (Pure Data)

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Sure does, Olegs. And Daphne Orams' work, too.

i love that still(and in vid around 50-sec mark) of the graphical score... nice design sense here.. looks like city lights at night laced with gold 👍

Hey dudes! this project has been evolving further since this post. ..

Check how it looks with this other flavours:

https://www.playmodes.com/home/forms-screen-ensemble/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dckbc3BCj00&t=41s

https://www.playmodes.com/home/forms-screen-ensemble/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dckbc3BCj00&t=41s


Forms: Generative Visual Music

2020

Barcelona