research and dev

drawing app for oXc by Pierre Sauvageot

Custom drawing application designed for the show oXc by Pierre Sauvageot and Lieux Publics, projected live onto the facade of a building.

This is not about representing the Odyssey, but about immersing oneself in the language, the voices, the text, the images, the myths, the poetics, the instrumental colors, the sounds of the elements.

For this, there is no Ulysses or Calypso, no Cyclops or Nausicaa, but a series of singular, unique protagonists who monologue, recite, suggest, comment, and interact, each in a very specific form: song, drawing, shadow, burglar, facade chorus, crew.

Pierre Sauvageot offers us a magical and poetic interpretation of this work, written more than 2,000 years ago, a sonorous and humorous one, incredibly relevant today.

 
Production: Lieux Publics / Pucemuse

cyclescape

Scrolling the landscape with an indoor bike.

Recycled indoor cycle, hacked dynamo, arduino and custom electronics, old PC running a pure data patch.

An indoor cycle is perched in front of a projected video screen, whose wheel rotation controls an interactive video. When the rider is cycling, the landscape is scrolling at an exagerated speed. When driving slowly or at rest, the screen displays abstract moving images from the limbos.

Cyclescape was made for “Vanité #10 : Visible Invisible” by Luis Pasina & co, during Nuit Blanche 2008, Paris.

cyclescape_QVGA

Radio roulette / Atelier de Création Radiophonique

Development of a “radio-roulette” Max patch for the “Atelier de Création Radiophonique”. The application is receiving a set of live radio streams across Europe (from the amazing audio signal matrix at the Maison de la Radio, before it was all over network but still a patch thing!).  The app then let one “launch” the roulette and is wheeling in a round-robin across the various radio streams.It was used live during the radio show, as a means of including random chunks of sounds aired in the European Union at that precise moment.

Client : Atelier de Création Radiophonique – France Culture

RADIO DAY : DÉSIRS D’EUROPE © Radio France

On the occasion of the “European Day of Culture and Radio”, France Culture’s “Atelier de Création Radiophonique” presents an exceptional live, multi-channel broadcast from studio 105 of the Maison de la Radio, and gives the floor to the “New Europeans” (i.e. the 10 new member countries of the Union) to identify their desires for Europe: what Europe do we want and how?

Conceived as a sonic journey through the radio universes of this new Europe, our program features Proto Radio in Cyprus, Vikkeradio in Estonia, Radio Petofi in Hungary, Lativijas Radio 1 in Latvia, Rtvslo 1 in Lithuania, Radio Malta in Malta, Radio Regina in Slovakia, Radio A1 in Slovenia, Radio 2 in Poland and Radio Vltava in the Czech Republic, and connects live to their programs broadcast in the same time slot as our program, namely from 10:45 p.m. until midnight.

This unique program/performance will be punctuated by reports (from Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia, and Cyprus) and a series of testimonies gathered from French artists who have worked in one of these countries: Martine Franck (photographer) in the Czech Republic, Patrick Zachmann (photographer) in Hungary, and Eléonore de Montesquiou (visual artist) in Estonia—all contextualized by Bernard Stiegler (philosopher, director of IRCAM) and Yves Mény (political scientist and president of the European University Institute in Florence). No B-side.

Broadcast on Sunday, October the 16th, 2005,  from 10:45 to midnight.

Listen to the archived podcast:
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/atelier-de-creation-radiophonique-10-11/radio-day-desirs-d-europe-7311783

XSPIF – Cross Standard PlugIn Framework

XSPIF stands for the acronym of Cross Standard PlugIn Framework.

It is an xml to (vst/au/pd/ladspa) translation utility written by Rémy Muller and myself for our final study project in 2003 inspired by Steve Harris way of writing ladspa plugins.

Instead of abstracting the different plugin formats into a C/C++ library as most professionnal companies do, we choose for both academic and time reasons to write an xml to C/C++ translator using Python.

It has many limitations and is now outdated, but it can prove useful as a learning tool or just as a template generator for the target plateforms.

XSPIF released under the GNU General Public License