Week 9 Creative Computing - Integrated Setup

Performance MP3

Jamie and I created a piece by improvising using an integrated setup involving Bidule, Live, the Novation controller, an acoustic guitar, an SM57, and the Mackie mixer.

Within the computer, the Bidule patch was something I have been experimenting with at home in preparation for the major project - this is the first time I've used it with live audio. The string sound is from a pleasing sample we quickly loaded into the simpler in live (with reverb and delay). Bidule was the rewire host, and live was simply rewired in to provide the string sound.

I played synth strings via Novation and tweaked minor parameters of the Bidule patch during the performance while Jamie played guitar. I would have liked to have more control over Bidule, but that will require some further tweaking. I think that using the software with live audio input where we could experiment and interact with it helped us gain better results.

Obviously we used much pre-existing patching in the setup, however I think that we still created an interesting live performance by adding sound and interacting with the patch.

Reference: Christian Haines. "Integrated Setup I." Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide,  7 October 2008.