uebergeek

PIGS is a software/hardware/percussive framework developed in Max/MSP/Jitter. It's designed for fluid, multi-layered, visual performance. It functions as a performable, improvisable, instrument; as a software framework for developing future instruments and performances; and as a testbed for working out performative concepts. PIGS focuses on experimentation with visuals that are not bound to traditions of rectangular frames and “movie” structures and on creating visual instruments designed as performable instruments rather than as controllable software. In its initial implementation, it enables a performer to perform visuals as they might perform a musical instrument; to be able to improvise; and to create fluid forms rather than rectangular, movie-like images.

Current PIGS performance interfaces include iPads, Leap Motion controller, and silent MIDI drums. Real-time gestures are drawn on the iPads and Leap Motion  and can then replayed with variations by striking the MIDI drums. The PIGS system allows for an assortment of variations from the original gesture in both duration and form with each drum stroke. The performer may also use this functionality to create theme and variations or looping structures. Individual drums/video layers may also be set to auto-loop, allowing the performer to improvise on the other drums/layers against the rhythms of the looping background layers.

While PIGS uses musical instruments and strategies as general models for thinking about performativity and temporal structures, care is taken not to attempt to simply translate musical approaches to visual ones: PIGS is designed from the ground up for visual performance. Rather than approaching audiovisual integration as a matter of synchronization of sound and image, the idea is to create an instrument that is performable as a part in a duet or ensemble (analogous to the way various instruments in an ensemble play different musical parts even though they are performing the same piece.) Likewise, while twentieth-century gesture and drawing-based abstract animators like Len Lye and Walter Ruttmann are progenitors, PIGS is interested in combining abstract drawing with live action, and in integrating contemporary visual influences from cell phone videos and YouTube to CGI, concert light shows and holographs.

The cultural zeitgeist is increasingly one of immediacy and unconstrained expression, while the zeitgeist of digital performance tools is often that of planning, control, and reserve. PIGS is designed for immediacy, to propose and facilitate a match between the ways we create cinema and the zeitgeist of the immediate. And although initially PIGS software is being performed traditional stage/screen concert settings, it’s intended to eventually expand into a variety of contexts.

"Rocket's Red Glare: Things Exploding on YouTube," an audiovisual improvisation by Amy Alexander (visuals (Max/Jitter), percussion) and Curt Miller (clarinet, computer audio (PD)) is the first composition developed using PIGS. 

The visual software is written entirely in Max/Jitter. There are four channels (layers) of visuals, each of which can be controlled by any of various gestural controllers. In slower parts of the performance gestures are drawn continually - in faster, more intense parts, MIDI drums are used to replay the gestures. (The gesture point data is replayed.) Each time a gesture is replayed, it is varied depending on velocity of the drum strokes, sonic spectral data, etc. The variations are spatial, temporal and textural: in other words, faster, more forceful playing might replay the gestures larger, faster, and with more opacity. The videos are both used as both textures on jit.gl.paths and as mattes behind them. A variety of video processing is performed on the videos to allow them to vary between more abstract and more recognizable: this allows us to work with the way videos are used culturally to aestheticize real-world events. Video processing is controlled both by parameters of the gesture/drum stroke and by manual adjustment (Launchpad Mini, Behringer BCR 2000, iPad/Mira.) 

PIGS software lead developer: Amy Alexander. Contributing developers: Wojciech Kosma, Curt Miller. Video Assistant: Doug Rosman.

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Percussive Image Gestural System (PIGS)

Jussy

wavefondler

Wavefondler

Julien Bayle

This device uses mira extensions & max for live.

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M4L Analyzer for MIRA / iPad

Sam Tarakajian

Mira. It's coming. In fact, if you find yourself in Daejeon on Wednesday the 29th, then you'll be able to play with it in person. I'll be demoing Mira as part of NIME, the 13th international conference for New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Hope to see you there!


mira-at-nime

Mira at NIME

marco domenichetti

Interactive installation for children and parents.

… is a journey into a magical spaceship driven by the same children, ipad to experiment with using a real-time interaction

the lights, audio and video.Concept and production: Marco Domenichetti, David Morella.

Audio – Light – Interaction – Custom software: Marco Domenichetti, David Morella.Scenery ‘Submarí’: Glòria Moretó

Video: Manel “Litu” Mateorecreat.org27, 28, 29 12 2010 (10h – 14h / 16h a 20h)

Granollers: Parc infantil de Nadal pingra.org

Collaboration: intecat.com/​Granollersclapera.com/​Platform: MacBook Pro Software: Max-Msp-Jitter / TouchOsc / patch ReMapping (©Recreat)

Hardware: Mac Pro / DmxPro512 / 2 Dimmer 4ch / Projector / iPad / 1ch projector/ 2 ch sound – Yamaha HS80M

Duration: 08:00 loopCollaboration:pingra.orgintecat.cat/​Granollers/​clapera.comrocaumbert.cat/​

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Viatge al País del Pinguai

Tim Halloran

Learning how to program in Max for Live for the first time, I built a patch that allows me to play my iPad like a cello using the gyro motion control features found in Mira.

Rotating the iPad mimics the action of pulling a bow across the strings, and changing the direction of rotation starts a new note. You can change the volume and expression of each note in real time by pulling the iPad faster or slower. The Max patch sends CC channel data to Ableton Live, where the sound synthesis in controlled.

The best part is that you don't need any musical knowledge to perform with this virtual cello, because CelloPad chooses the notes for you. I built a small probability distribution curve in Max for Live to compose random melodies within predetermined chord progressions. All you have to do is tap the screen to advance to the next chord, and CelloPad writes the melody with every new note.

Thanks to the Max community forum members for an incredibly helpful archive of posts!

Learning how to program in Max for Live for the first time, I built a patch that allows me to play my iPad like a cello using the gyro ... 

cellopad

CelloPad

naithan

MaxComm is a free iPad app for sending OSC messages to Max over a wifi network. You can build an interface using sliders, buttons, toggles, and trackpads and then export your interface as a Max patch. You can also send multitouch data, orientation data, and motion data. Interfaces can be saved and loaded on other iPads.

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MaxComm

Good news, everyone: Mira 1.1.7 is out. Don't forget to download an updated version of the Mira package for Max, in addition to the new version of the Mira app.

So what's new in Mira 1.1.7? In a word, speed.

With this new version, we wanted to focus on stability and speed. We optimized the interface, which makes the whole application faster and more responsive. Loading a patch takes half as much time as it used to, and switching between patch tabs is faster too.


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Mira 1.1.7 is now available

romaindumaine

Max was used in different ways, check the diagram on the pictures section to see the overview.

Max was used as a core of this performance, treating OSC messages from a Kinect, an interface made of TouchOSC on iPad, creating pwd signals to control an haptic feedback glove. The audio core was composed of 4 different banks of sounds control by the TouchOSC interface and spatialised with the help of the Kinect

orchad

"Orchard"

andrej

Cycling '74 has recently given us some really nice updates such as the Mira update and the MPE & Blocks implementation. This is my project that implements the updates.

Granurise is a real-time Looper, Sampler and Granular synth which integrates with the outside world trough Ipad Mira, Midi–MPE & OSC.

•	»Human modulation« automation that follows a last gesture until a new one is recorded

•	Edit pitch, volume, pan, eq, density & scrub for each voice

•	Different windowing + design your own

•	Transforms the pitch without altering the speed of sound using the FFT transform

•	Slide can also control the position of each voice

•	Press can control the selection duration

Granurise is a real-time Looper, Sampler and Granular synth which integrates with the outside world trough Ipad Mira, Midi–MPE and OSC.

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