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bop inside Plug Data inside Ableton Live

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are going to build a simple interactive sketch using bop for Pure Data. This will demonstrated in Ableton but can also be done in your VST host of choice.

Adventures with Semisteps in Max 9

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This is a common trap/feature/bug/quality of working in Max - the tension between left-hemisphere analytical tasks, and right hemisphere creative tasks. When you’re in the creative flow of music making, the last thing you want to do is stop to program your own reverb~. You might make an amazing reverb, but that is time you’re spending not making music. Both creating an amazing reverb, and creating music are both perfectly valid endeavours, the key is focussing your attention on the thing you actually want to be doing.

semisteps (the concept formally known as intermals)

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

semisteps

Semisteps are a way of encoding a chord voicing and relative root pitch as a floating point value. Semisteps are currently implemented in bop.

E-Prime

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

E-Prime

The term E-Prime refers a subset of english proposed built upon the principles of General Semantics set out by Alfred Korzybski. In E-Prime excludes variations of the verb “to be” including be, is, am, are, was, were, and been. In practice, the use of E-Prime “fosters a worldview in which the user perceives situations as changeable rather than static, and where verbal formulations derived from experience indicate possibilities rather than certainties.” (“Speaking in e-prime: An experimental method for integrating general semantics into daily life”, EW Kellogg, 1987)

Making a plugin with RNBO

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

how to cram Max into anything

An Introduction to Interactive Audio-Vision

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An Introduction to Interactive Audio-Vision

Let’s look at a general-purpose stack of tools for interactive video projection and integrated audio. We will look at running the stack on a single machine, as well as distributed across a network, as the scenario may call for.

Animating Text in TouchDesigner

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Animating text with the geotext COMP

The geotext comp allows for fine granularity 3D text animation.

VIZZIE SNIPPETS

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Where is VIZZIE

A Simple Colour Source with Controls

portable video streaming approaches for art installations

Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I am surveying small, locally streaming cameras for applications in art installations. The focus is on affordable, hackable, wearable cameras for performance or interaction applications.

The Ariel Encounter and Impossibility

Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Within the realm of the things we can possibly imagine to exist, there are things that are both possible and impossible. Then there are also those things beyond our ability to imagine them… and some of those things might be possible.

Easy Github credentials

Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Github authentication in the terminal is a pain. github-cli allows for one-time, interactive, browser-based authentication

Matt Harloffs Tuning Sequence - and tuning sequence as functional application of art

Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

When I build software for interfacing with music - I often iterate back and forth between writing tuning sequences and system refinement. On reflection I often over emphasise the development aspect of this process, as that is the part I find easier. It is analytical and stepwise, so to figure out what the next step is, you just need to think it through. The composition is much harder - here you need to probe around in the dark, or if you are lucky something will just appear.

Interfacing with distributed speaker arrays

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Continuing work on a system I was exploring earlier here [ composing with particles], I was working with TouchDesigner. Here I have moved to Max using its native particle system: [jit.shiva] and [jit.vishnu]. The patch processes the particle matrix to detect particle births, deaths, and movements, and transforms that data to an OSC schema for moving virtual sound objects through a distributed speaker array.

Neurotheology, aliens, and interpreting the immaterial

Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Standard scratchpad disclaimer.
I am not tied to any of the perspectives below.
I believe beliefs are best held lightly.

In his discussion with Jefferey Mishlove, Andy Newberg notes the importance of “being open to all paradigms. There is value in being reductionistic at times, and there is value in not”. This strikes me as an example of an integral, or meta-modern stance, looking to draw on transrational conceptions to expand the bounds of understanding.

Metamodernism and the evolution of consciousness

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Maybe it’s just me but it seems like there is a collision of ideas going on. Some of the ideas go by terms like meta-modernism, integral, process philosophy, process theology, pan-experientalism, panpsychism, organic cosmology, and probably a lot more.

An Introduction to Max by way of Microtonality

Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This is a tutorial outline for a tailored introduction to Max session.

Download the patch

Composing in Virtual Spaces

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

These notes were written for a presentation to be given at The Victorian College of the Arts, March 23rd 2020.

Duration: 1hr + 30m Q&A

Who am I?

Audio-visual Artist*
Composer
Software Developer
Animator
Interested in extending conceptions and applications of music
Pro Frank Zappa
Anti Lars Ulrich

Also:

notes on OSC in Pure Data

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Working on my PhD project, I am needing to send and receive telemetry data as OSC. While doing this I’ve noticed I am losing precision in my latitude and longitude readings. I have these stored as floating point values with 7 decimals of accuracy, though after parsing them in PD I am down to 4 decimal points. I suspect the OSCParse object is to blame here.

composing with particles

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I am working on a project that requires me to move sounds around an irregular multi-speaker array system. The aesthetic aim is to have sounds travel through the space as if they are on the wind.

packetPunk - OSC logging on an ESP32 Watch

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Sold as the dstike esp32 watch devkit, this is an ESP32 microcontroller with an OLED display, a NeoPixel, flashlight, buzzer, battery, charging circuit, SD card slot, and a few buttons.

gyrosc 2 pd

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Download gyrosc2pd.pd

This patch receives OSC data from gyrosc , and tags them with a dynamic send object to be accessed globally via named receive objects. Available receives are shown on the right, and useful code snippets are provided for easy patching.

NEXTECH QC3868

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The NEXTECH QC3863 ( available here) is a small, battery powered, IP security camera, capable of recording to an internal SD card and being administrated via a mobile app. Streaming video is able to be accessed via local network, though it is poorly documented. This thing is insecure as shit. Keep it off the internet and untrusted networks as much as possible.

README

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The open notebook of Bob Jarvis

These are my working notes as of early ‘22. There will be snippets of code, notes on projects, and general R&D.

Contact

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 13:23:52 +1100

Search

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 13:23:52 +1100

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about

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 21:20:39 +1100

Bob Jarvis creates interactive and temporal artworks that integrate music, vision, space, and code. Out of their experimental process emerge eclectic themes of intermodality, colour, polyrhythm, flight, ontology, belief, and kinaesthetics.

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