Tang Ching Hei

Pixel Orchestra

Visualization of music storage and regenerative device

Illustration of installation setup

Illustration of installation setup

Technical Description

Basically this project is performed by MAX/MSP-jitter, which can manipulate number value of pitch and velocity from keyboard. The value triggers MAX/MSP to generate colour pixels for each pitch. MAX/MSP scans colour from paper via the web cam, which reads and analyses the colour values, namely the RGB values. Then those values trigger the patch, which is created to analyse the music pitch from the RGB values. This project needs two Apple Mac computers, one for generating colour from music and another for scanning colour to play the music.

Hardware / Software

MAX/MSP, Jitter, MIDI Keyboard, Printer, Web cam, some mechanical components.