Guitare à crayon from psc on Vimeo. Patrick Sébastien Coulombe’s Guitare à crayon (guitar pencil) combines a guitar and a drawing tablet allowing the user to create various sounds while drawing. A custom made USB device and pure data were used to generate noise.

In this video there is a man dancing around while virtually touching or in drumming on the colored circles and by doing so it creates music. so that is why i guess it is called ‘drancing.’ either way the most exciting part about this video is that he was able to do all of this…

This is a PD GEM patch that transforms a video of a man riding a bicycle into abstract pixels of color, synchronized with music. I’m not exactly sure how the person made this, but I hope to learn and make stuff like this in class. I just thought it was interesting and looked really cool.~Veronika…

At our last class I mentioned going to the Video Data Bank. The Video Data Bank is a place to watch videos created by contemporary artists. It is a free resource and all you need to do is make an appointment to reserve a screening room. If you are interested and/or want to learn more…

I came across this cool installation piece. The creator used a projector to cast water over the wall and a camera to sense the viewers motion and create ripples in the water.

This pure data patch is so cool! Visually I was able to figure out how this works. The colored boxes are controlled by the percussion and the other sounds control the movement of all the boxes. As for the technical pure data patch I am yet to understand how he did this, I can not…

I googled pure data into the image search (as I’m sure some of you folks might have), and found this insane, bionic-man looking thing. I’m actually not even sure if it uses PD, looking back at it now. I still looks pretty cool though. I searched for other ones and when I would enlarge the…

Truly, this is my favorite demonstration of an applied PD system. The timed lighting can be interacted with via cursor. When the cursor touches one of the lights, the light casts a ripple effect, etc. Its really pleasing and interesting to watch. The resolution seems to be of good quality. Truly well done.

I think this PD patch I found is kind of neat. I mean it’s nothing really spectacular, but it seemed like a good one to try. I found several more on this person’s website (I think it was his website). I would actually like to see how this patch works or, to be technically correct,…

This video is amazing. Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo. This guy makes incredible visualizations to music using the program Processing. Here is his blog where he details how he made this incredible video.

I thought this was pretty interesting and a good patch to try to make. It gives you the steps on how it is made and has a nice percussion sound. It’s really cool that a simple patch like that can make such a nice sound. I don’t fully know how it is working, but I…