SINGING SAND was inspired by the sonic potential of real-time 3D mesh based computer graphics. It explores how various particle fluctuations, tensions or shape morphings sound like, what internal rhythms do they create and how that affects our perception of the visuals in return.

Sand resembling visual particles are sonified by mapping their individual velocities to various parameters of individual grains inside a granular synthesiser. At the same time the velocities determine the colours of the particles which creates a spectrum of colours and sounds. The aim of the composition was to explore how such audiovisual material could function in a free audiovisual paradigm and also how to meaningfully force it onto the grid of harmony and metric rhythm. 

Visuals and particles based granulator were implemented in Max. Max for Live was used as a bridge between Live and Max.

SINGING SAND was inspired by the sonic potential of real-time 3D mesh based computer graphics. It explores how various particle fluctuations

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Singing Sand

Nick Donovan

The whole application was written, developed and tested in max.

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The Large Hadron Sound Collider App

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We developed an art installation for the lobby of Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados Law firm. 160.000 particles floating around an imaginary sphere. Then we installed, on every computer on the firm (400 worldwide ), a daemon that tracks the user mouse actions, and those actions create new gravity points in realtime that pull and push the particles around the piece.
Max/MSP made this possible. We designed everything around OSC, and the simplicity of Max, either graphics or protocol, made all the development (3 weeks) much faster.

We developed an art installation for the lobby of Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados Law firm. 160.000 particles floa

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The Invisible Hand

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A two-dimensional model of moshers, similar to a disordered gas.

Based on research by Jesse Silverberg and Matthew Bierbaum. See: http://cohengroup.lassp.cornell.edu/projects/collective-motion-mosh-pits

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