Project Ideas
Here are some ideas that can be incorporated in any of the projects:
- Phase loops a la Piano Phase
- Sequencer loops for rhythm and melody, algorithmic composition
- Karaoke with an angle
- Use simple geometry to calculate the amplitude and delay for cancelling sounds off center
- Spatial localization
- Use Arduino to construct a device that can locate the source of a sound
- Virtual fundamental
- Create a sensation of a bass using two higher partials. Explore virtual bass perception or/and on algorithm of Maxxbass or similar that allow production of low frequencies from lousy speakers
- Dr. Who - Voice of the Daleks
- Create an effects box with ring modulation. Explore different implementations (analog x digital) and types of voice (Dalek, Cybermen). See Ring Modulation
- Explore and implement effects in PD and or Little Bits
- Kinect
- Use gestures to scratch an audio file or perform as a Theremin like instrument
- Hyper-instruments and efects
- Stuff like Talk Box, physical delay line, explore feedback, or construct a new instrument interface like a Theremin
- Contact Mics
- Something a la mooges or [1]
- Rock Band Drums
- Using hid in pd or rb2midi or JoyToKey
- Drum set with IMU and pressure sensors: Hook up sensors to your body or create your own instrument and connect hardware to software. Transform music performance.
- I-Cube X
- To interface sensors and actuators through MIDI. See this link for more information.
- Roughness
- Explore the effect of beating between pure sinusoids versus harmonic sounds. Read about Vassilakis Roughness Profile as a compositional tool (Proceedings SMC'07, 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference, 11-13 July 2007, Lefkada, Greece)
- Improvisation with PyOracle
- Painting with Cladni patterns
- See this video and this more radical idea
- Chua/Rabinovich oscillator
- See [2]
- Synchronization of Oscillators
- Ed Large metronome example
- Gramophone
- Explain mechanical recording
- L-systems for music
- Sonification
- Circuits
- Analog tone generator
- Amplifier circuits with opamps
- Square waves, triangular waves with timer
- Networked Sound/Music
- Connecting ensembles over a network - TCP, UDP, and netsend~.
- Make it an activity and expand into projects: jam manager or game
- Raspberry Pi GPIO
- General Purpose In/Out for RPi
- Reading from sensors, controlling motors and other output
- Building Controllers
- Using micro controllers like the Arduino to manage control signals to audio applications via Pure Data and Max/MSP.
- Building Stand-alone Instruments with the Raspberry Pi
- The RPi can be used to create completely functional all-in-one electronic instruments.
- Remix
- Using Ableton Live to create remixes through loop processing and automated effects.
- Recording/Engineering
- Basic functions of the modern recording studio, from engineering to mixing and mastering.
- Shazam
- Time streching, phase vocoder
- Beat detection
- Guitar pedals
- distortion, phaser, ring mod, etc
- Rock Band Drums
- using hid in pd or rb2midi or JoyToKey in pd
- Spatial localization
- construct a device that can locate the source of a sound
- State Machine Composition with Python
- Can you make the computer assist you with the composition? Write a python program that has a probabilistic sequence of chords and notes.