lorenz system - a generative music experiment made with vvvv

Published on Dec 29, 2012 elohess2·73 videos

"Todays project: 'lorenz system'. A generative music video I've made with vvvv. A big patch based on the lorenz attractor. I build a little bit 3d mesh around and developed a sound interpreter for the graphics.

Find out more about the 'Lorenz System' here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_system

Switch of the lights in you room and start the video. Relax...

Near the end of the video there is a sceen with about 5000 spheres I reached the limit of the processor. The movement of the spheres is not so smooth. Sorry."

Theme for a damp forest (vvvv edition)

YouTube Uploaded by DevsoundSE on Feb 12, 2012

"Showing some of the possibilities of VVVV + Buzz for making generative music and art.

(The vvvv-patch is super-messy, I know... I was just testing some of the svg-functionality in vvvv.)

So, what's going on?
Well, first an svg-image is generated in vvvv. That's the black and red shape.
Then we extract the node data from the svg and pass it on to a bunch of dots that are beeing rendered in the four windows. MIDIdata is then generated in 8 channels by taking some random rms-values of the node data. For good measure, an FFT-node is placed in vvvv to recieve the music from buzz to manipulate the parameters of the svg-shape. This in turn translates down to the dot-renderers, and will modify the midi-data sent to Buzz. It's called feedback, you dummy.

Any questions?"

Clavilux 2000 - Interactive instrument for generative music visualization

Clavilux 2000 - Interactive instrument for generative music visualization from Jonas Heuer on Vimeo.

"The Clavilux 2000 is an interactive instrument for generative music visualization, which is able to generate a live visualization of any music played on a digital piano. The setting of the installation consists of three parts: A digital piano with 88 keys and midi output, a computer running a vvvv patch and a vertical projection above the keyboard. For every note played on the keyboard a new visual element appears in form of a stripe, which follows in its dimensions, position and speed the way the particular key was stroke. Colours give the viewer and listener an impression of the harmonic relations: Each key has it's own color scheme and "wrong" notes stand out in contrasting colors. All stripes stay and overlap each other in an additive way, so at the end a kind of pattern remains – a summary of the music – which will be always unique since the notes of the composition aswell as the interpretation of the piano player are influencing the outcome. Furthermore the piano player can switch between the standart 2d view and an additional 3d view of the visualization while playing. — For more information jonasheuer.de/index.php/clavilux-2000/" via Gizmodo

MSA Remote + VDMX + Ableton Live

MSA Remote + VDMX + Ableton Live from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

"MSA Remote is a remote control application for iPhone & iPod Touch that sends OSC messages over the wifi network. This allows you to control any OSC supporting applications such as Max/MSP/Jitter, PureData, Reaktor, VDMX, vvvv, Resolume, Quartz Composer etc.

In this video, OSCulator is routing the OSC (& TUIO) messages coming from MSA Remote to midi and forwarding to Ableton Live and VDMX simultaneously. Nothing is done in post, the same signal is controlling both audio and video.

At the beginning of the video you can see the polyphonic velocity sensitive keys in action (yes, the harder you hit the keys, the louder the sound - works equally well when the iphone is laid on a table), and later on the faders, triggers and multitouch tuio-pad.

You can see MSA Remote controlling a Java fluid simulation at vimeo.com/3975324

There is a slight lag in the video feed so apologies for that.

Should be in the app store soon.
memo.tv/msaremote_for_iphone

Blog post about this video at
memo.tv/msa_remote_rejected_again_velocity_sensitive_pads_on_iphone_and_patents

P.S. you can download the original video at the bottom if you wanna read the effects in VDMX or Live."