Metal by the Foot (1/4)
Channel: kriista
Date: 2021-02-13

A series of short improvisations that use some metal-on-metal action, in both the physical and software spaces.

A stainless steel ruler is close-mic’d and sent through fairly aggressive distortion. The audio from the ruler is also analyzed for various spectral descriptors (loudness/centroid/flatness/melbands). That analysis data is used to search for, play back, and dynamically filter the nearest match in a database of samples made from the Wuhan China cymbal also included the setup. This creates a kind of hyper-real space where the ruler and triggered cymbal sounds fuse into a mess of metal shards and splats.

I also use a tiny transducer in one of the performances to feedback the mic audio into the ruler itself as well as using sonified data samples being triggered and filtered by playing the physical china cymbal.

The set up is built in Max and uses the FluCoMa tools and confetti devices.

For more information:
http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com

FluCoMa project:
http://www.flucoma.org

confetti devices:
https://github.com/rconstanzo/confetti

filmed by Angela Guyton:
http://www.angelaguyton.com