Tag: max/msp

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Sound

Echotect — Turn your hood into a delay

I created the open source application Echotect, which allows you to turn your hood into a delay. It can also be used as an acoustic lab on some level. Add reflection points, structures, and use included global building data for automatic echo field mapping.

https://janne-s.github.io/Echotect/

The project can be exported as impulse response files to the reverb you use and the like; as stems of the echo field, and as the entire wet track. A Max4Live device is included, where you can import the echo field manifest in JSON format. You can also import the same JSON into your own applications.

It is possible to import an image into Echotect: a set design image, maybe a historical map or just a cool image that you want to match echo points to. There’s a scale tool to calibrate the image to real world measurements.

The Max4Live device is by default four-channel to implement surround sound if necessary, but go wild with it.

I personally like listening to sound from somewhere further away and finding interesting perspectives for music mixing and the like. The app basically allows IR file creation from any location, which I’d imagine could have uses in movie sound design.

The app is not designed to be a hard core acoustic simulator, but it goes a long way there. Reflections have reflections and they are affected by real world occlusions and other freely adjustable parameters. Deeper echo fields are best created in the render mode.

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Film

Sound Design and Music for an Experimental Animation

Fusion
Fusion at Flash Vallisaari - Photo: Lauri Tuomiranta
Fusion at Flash Vallisaari – Photo: Lauri Tuomiranta

Fusion is a collaboration with Tuomas Tuomiranta, who created the animation using Processing. Real-time data from the animation was sent to Max via OSC, where I generated the sound using that data. I produced several audio interpretations and composed the final sound design from these renders to match and enhance the animation’s dynamic flow.

The foundation of the soundtrack is derived from the actual colors and their frequencies, translated directly into sound. Additionally, the evolving properties of the animation elements were used to modulate and shape the audio, creating a seamless integration between image and sound.

Fusion Max patch
Fusion Max patch

Shortly after our collaboration began, an opportunity arose to exhibit the piece. Fusion premiered at Flash Vallisaari on September 21, 2018.

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Film

Original Music and Sound Design for an Experimental Short Film

Napoli film by Seppo Renvall

The visuals of the NAPOLI film were translated into sound, forming the foundation for both the musical composition and sound design. A poem recited by lead actor Pasquale se Fabbio was converted into musical notation and used as the basis for the main melody.

Seppo Renvall is a pioneer in Finnish experimental film. He works mainly with film and video, but hid artistic output also includes photography, installations and happenings. His films are characterised by an abstract imagery in black and white and a non-narrative structure that often focuses on the apparently commonplace and everyday.

I consider myself fortunate to have collaborated with him on the film, which premiered on May 11, 2017.

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Art

Sonification of a Tree – Requiem for the Tree of the Glass Palace

Tree of the Glass Palace

In downtown Helsinki, there’s a place called Lasipalatsin aukio (Glass Palace Square), slated for renovation along with the surrounding area. At the center of the square stands a tree that is set to be cut down. In response, a group of artists created works dedicated to the tree — I was invited to contribute as well.

For my piece, I photographed the tree and used the images as input for a generative sound process. The photo is scanned from left to right, with the light areas providing data for a set of oscillators, waveforms, and filters. The resulting sound composition is taken from one full scan pass.

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Art

Audiovisual Installation Using Wearable Sensor Data

Wearable sensor art piece with LED lights and live video

The piece titled D-A-T/D-A was presented in the group exhibition “NOT IMPRESSIVE NOT BELIEVABLE”.

Created by the interdisciplinary artist collective KNPSST—comprising Mira Kautto, Alisa Närvänen, Elina Peltonen, Marko Suovula, Janne Särkelä, and Pekka Tynkkynen, with expertise spanning art, clothing design, technology, music, architecture, and contemporary dance—the project began during their 2015 residency at Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence.

D-A-T/D-A is a kinetic data installation rooted in wearable sensor technology, capturing physical gestures and movements and translating them into synchronized sound and light.