Let's get physical . . .

This is a programming kind of time for me. I am using Cyrille Henry's PMPD (Physical Modeling for Pure Data) and its Max/MSP incarnation developed by Mathieu Chemagne (known as mc.pmpd) to develop more natural sounding gestures and behaviors for acousmatic improvisation. It's working out pretty well and I will post some experiments to this blog when I figure out how all that control information will influence the sound of the improvisational 'world' I am developing. It is basically the following formula: [field recordings (edited)] * [sample playback processes] * [physical models(constraints)]. Somehow, that makes an hour of music.

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