GMU:Autonomous-Collaborative/Tan

The Street Lamp

I started out with the idea to build a drone generator / noise machine that would be able to do real time audio processing. To do this I needed to learn how to make a tape looper / sampler.

The way to capture audio and creating arrays was familiar to the granular synthesis tutorial in the class. I tried making a patch from scratch. I wanted to add a randomizer to the patch with some chord progressions.

The next idea was making an audio processor with the use of the piezo microphones. The tutorials with Philipp helped me a lot while editing the one of the help patches (pitch shifter). The outcome was interesting and quite dirty.

To use the PD patch and demonstrate how it works I decided to make an “instrument” out of the objects lying around in our flat. I unscrewed out the inner layer of an old street lamp, it seemed like it would be good for the contact mics and would add to the grittiness of the patch.

I added materials to the “instrument” to be able to have different sounds and to make it “playable”. It ended up being a percussive instrument. The inner layer of the street lamp had an interesting and playful surface.