Creative Coding
Sonification with Max: Visuals into Sound
In this workshop you will implement an algorithm that processes the motion, color, and position of images and videos, and turns it into music. The goal of the workshop is
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1. Introduction - What is Sonification_
Course overview
In this workshop you will implement an algorithm that processes the motion, color, and position of images and videos, and turns it into music. The goal of the workshop is to give you the necessary tools and techniques to begin exploring sonification of visuals.
Learning outcomes
Design algorithms to get data from images and videos
Build systems to play the analyzed data as notes, chords, and sounds
Explore possibilities of audiovisual mapping
Who is this course for?
- • Musicians interested in starting with sonification
- • Creative coders who want to learn how to process visual data
Requirements
- • Computer and internet connection
- • Access to a copy of Max 8 (i.e. trial or full license)
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Sonification with Max: Visuals into Sound
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Sonification with Max: Visuals into Sound
8 videos
1. Introduction - What is Sonification_
Checking access...2. Importing Images into Max - What is a Jitter Matrix_
Checking access...3. Picking and Detecting Color in Images
Checking access...4. Processing The Color Analysis
Checking access...5. Transforming the Analysed Color into a Single Value
Checking access...6. Sound Generation and Changing Parameters with Color
Checking access...7. Sonifying the Hue of Images
Checking access...8. Importing Videos and Spacialisation
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Instructors
Umut Eldem
Umut Eldem is a composer, pianist, and researcher. His musical works and research focus on the exploration of synaesthesia as an artistic medium. He has given lectures on his research of synaesthesia, and had his audiovisual works and installations combining sound and colours presented in Belgium, Turkey, Romania, Russia, and Luxembourg. Umut Eldem is currently a PhD researcher at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, and musical director of the theatre collective Mixed & United. He gives lessons and workshops on music history, musical analysis, and audiovisual design. He is also the keyboardist of the bands Starblind = Earthbound and Transport Aerian. His current PhD research entitled ‘The Hearing Glass: Synaesthetic Correspondences in The Musical Practice’ intends to take the results of his previous research and develop them into an inter-sensory theory of audiovisual art.