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MellowTron was designed per the request of a musical theatre company for their production of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. In order to facilitate audio playback in a hostile space (not a theatre/concert hall), a patch that could quickly read in a large amount of audio files, list them in any order the user desires, and play them back in an efficient manner triggered by MIDI controller was required. In this case an AKAI MPK Mini 25-key was utilized.

The patch utilizes a specialized abstraction that uses most of the features of the polybuffer~ object. This allows for fast read in of a folder and the ability to reorder samples through a coll object. From there, the samples are read in through the KeyAssign subpatch, which allows for immediate assignment of samples to keys on the MPK. Use of the stripnote object allows for Start/Stop capability without holding down the key while the sample is playing. The next step in the project is to integrate UDP control of projections through jitter.

MellowTron was designed per the request of a musical theatre company for their production of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. In order to facil

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MellowTron - Dynamic Multiple Sample Playback for Musical Theatre Applications

R. Luke DuBois

Matthew Ostrowski discusses cricket behavior and how it informed his Max-driven sound installation "Host".

I thought, "Okay, how do I make this into some other thing other than a musical instrument that happens to be telephones?"

I'm trying to create something where duration will actually increase the complexity of it, not only just in terms of sound, but also in terms of your relationship with these objects in the room.

Matthew takes us behind the scenes of "The Glove", and shows how Max has helped him create a satisfyingly musical electronic instrument.

My software approach comes out of having a lot of analog improvising, and working with acoustic musicians.

Max has been a great environment to do that because you can improvisationally develop your software essentially. The speed with which you can go, "Okay, how does this work? What happens if I connect this to that?" That can happen in a very organic process.

Video editing by Ron MacLeod for Cycling '74.


Matthew Ostrowski discusses cricket behavior and how it informed his Max-driven sound installation "Host".

Part 2: http://youtu.be/8k-UcvGQbko

An Interview with Matthew Ostrowski, Part 1: The Host

Matthew Ostrowski takes us behind the scenes of "The Glove", and shows how Max has helped him create a satisfyingly musical electronic instrument.

Part 1: http://youtu.be/K0oI8TH5OQk

An Interview with Matthew Ostrowski, Part 2: The Glove

Matthew discusses his latest installation and electronic instrument.

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