Tags : #app

#app : All the pages where you can find audiovisual applications for mac and PC.

John — the semi-conductor (reactive web version)

John (“the semi-conductor”) is an open-source software designed to help collective free improvisation. It provides a constraint-based score generator and displays screen scores running on distributed, reactive web browsers.
The musicians can then concurrently edit the scores in their own browser. One of the original features of John is that its design takes care of leaving the musician’s attention as free as possible, relying on large colorful blocks and minimal text-data.

John is used by ONE, a ensemble playing improvised electro-acoustic music with digital musical instruments. John was presented at the TENOR’2018 conference in Montreal, CA [pdf here].

John — the semi-conductor (Max version)

John, the semi-conductor.

John is an application meant for collective free improvisation, which was born out of the needs encountered in free improvisation practice with the Orchestre National Electroacoustique.

Namely, John was invented as a virtual companion to find stimulating answers for issues encountered in collective free improvisation, like precise timings for transitions between contrasting parts, articulations of large movements, or the proposal of unusual scores taking us off the beaten path.

It is made of two parts :

  • a score editor which can generate random scores based on constraints and probablities defined by the user
  • a real-time “conductor” displaying the score during live performance

Its name refers to both John Cage and John Doe.

John-scoreGenerator
Random score generation panel
John, conductor Max screenshot
The conductor screen, with countdown and active players

The original development was made with Max, then later reworked to a reactive web app.

Le phonétogramme — an interactive installation for voice analysis

Le phonétogramme is an interactive audio-visual booth created and developed for the “Cité des Sciences” museeum in Paris. It consists in a graph showing the pitch versus the loudness of a voice. It shows various characteristics of one’s voice, including the ambitus, the change of amplitude at vocal register shifts, and possible voice disorders.

The installation involved a multitouch screen to control the multilingual app for the Cité des Sciences audience. A distance sensor was also used to ensure the distance between the user and the microphone was correct. All the graphics and sound interaction design was made with Cycling’74 Max.

It was a challenging thing to design the UI with Max/jitter, but a good opportunity to test the limits of what could be achieved there. This project triggered the development of the MP.TUI package.

A snapshot from the chinese interface of the Phonetogram app.

Computer graphics and multimedia production for the exhibition “La voix, l’expo qui vous parle”.
Client : Cité des Sciences & de l’Industrie

Wyschnegradsky

Ivan Alexandrovich Wyschnegradsky (Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Вышнегра́дский) was a Russian composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions.

Pascal Criton, a french composer of contemporary music as well as a musicologist who studied Wyschnegradsky’s works, created an interactive piece inspired by Wyschnegradsky’s “ultrachromatic compositions” for association Puce Muse.

I designed a collective instrument able to produce complex polyrhytmic sequences of filtered sound texture. Each step of the sequence can be assigned a color nuance and a pitch, possibly micro-tonal. The result produces visual and sonic moires, reminding of Wyschnegradsky’s chromatic drawings.

You can get it from the Méta-Librairie website.

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

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