22.04.2020
Work on understanding how audio and visual systems can work together continues during the lockdown. Currently, I have set up many different iterations of the system to examine how to control manipulation of audio to create moving images in Pixivisor.
These are examples of gifs that are recorded entirely in Pixivisor, from electronic manipulation of sounds. The devices used were:
Modular synths VCOs to create amplitude, which mostly created vertical and horizontal movement. At the default frame-rate (64x64 pixels) of 10.77, stable images were reproduced at approximately the based pitch of F at about -24 between semitones (as recorded on an OP-1).
A Monomachine was able to generate a sequence that would mimic the frame rate and also produced a stable image when the outputs of the modular synth were run through a thru instrument machine at approx. 80.7bpm using 16th notes at a fairly steep envelope.
Notes: adding harmonies seemed to produce the most distortion. Octaves did not make must difference to the stability of the image, but 5ths and other intervals tended to distort the image on a second layer, often creating chaos.
The below are an example of the later experiments.
