[sdiy] Visual Music Devices (advanced color organs)

[Amos]

Meant to share this with the list.... forgot to "reply to all" previously.

-AZG

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From: Amos <controlvoltage at gmail.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2005 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Visual Music Devices (advanced color organs)
To: karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se>

I made a MIDI-controlled "color organ" in 1995.... I used Opcode MAX to
translate MIDI note data into DMX intelligent-lighting control language to
instruct a Martin Roboscan light. The light was capable of multi-axis
movement and near-limitless subtractive color mixing using multiple dichroic
filters. As you went up the scale on the keyboard, the light traced out a
conical helix shape, changing colors as it went. I used Scriabin's
note-to-color specifications but others could be used also. It was a lot of
fun! I was workin as an intern for a mad engineer who wanted to put on
synaesthesia multimedia performances for healing purposes... I don't know if
he ever used my device though.

-Amos

On 9/28/05, karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se> wrote:
>
> With absolute confidence it would!
>
> :The Lumigraph also appeared in a 1964 science-fiction movie The Time
> :Travelers, in which it is a "love machine" that allows people to vent
> :their sexual urges in a harmless sensuality. Maybe there should be a
> :Lumigraph in every home.
>
> So in other words this machine will generate oxytocin! :-)
> (Oxytocin results in the production of sedative endorphins
> wich is natural analogues of morphine.)
>
> KD
>
> --- Grant Richter < grichter at asapnet.net> skrev:
>
> > I am pretty sure this is on topic. The charter does not specifically
> > forbid discussions of visual music synthesis.
> >
> > http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.1/articles/moritz2.1.html
> >
>
>
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