Researching Alternatives to Arduino

I have found out something very important this week - YouTube is not the place to look for exciting new artistic projects. It seems like Vimeo is the place to be for them!

What exciting artistic project are you talking about in particular, I hear you cry.... Well, this.

Madmapper to DMX/LED

There might be some interesting developments around the corner for splitting out audio frequency information neatly & quickly, but for the time being we are just going to have to stick with filterbanks splitting it all up. In short I am not going to be attempting to do things in Max for Live that nobody has ever tried before, simply because I dont have the skill and it would take the whole year just to learn enough to start.

I am very comfortable with signal flow processing, if not coding, however. As you can see from the link above, this process is majoritivly in the box and predefined in how to set up, I just want to expand the idea.

It clearly allows me to use MadMapper to set up a means of splitting out the audio frequencies to control seperate sets of LED's, which is what I have been looking for the whole time.

I figure that if I get this working, I will have a much stronger understanding, along with all the components I need, to experiment with how to get a smart means of integration into a working enviroment.

This is on top of the fact that MadMapper also can run my projector, so I can perhaps experiment with more generative graphics running onto a screen, along with LED's. I found this the other day which blew my mind!

Sound Reacting 3D Waveform Generator.

If I could develop a means of having it change its colour spectrum in tandem with the LED's, whilst at the same time generating a waveform representation, I feel it would really bring the idea of metering music alive. Something that is normally such a boring process being turned into something that is integral and enjoyable can only be a positive thing, surely!?

Not to mention beautiful. Which can be inspirational in itself. Hopefully the outcome will result in a room that you want to create music in more, a room you want to be in all the time.

2D Standing Wave Visualiser

Something I may touch on later in the year once I have got the techy part of the project sorted, are other forms of audio reactivity, as you can see above.