Stereo?

The typical idea of stereo is there are two outputs playing different tracks.  How similar or dissimilar those tracks are altered for the desired effect.  However, what I also though is that your inputs have as much importance as the outputs in this setting.  Playing one input into two speakers with a simple pan would make use of two speakers.

My inspiration for this project was the old crossovers built for the big speaker cabs.  With each frequencies being pushed to a certain type of speaker to best emulate that type of sound.  I also used a leslie speaker in my NIME last year.  The idea of have a physical interaction altering the sound felt much more rewarding than a max patch.

I set my system up for two outputs and decided to use a microphone as an input again.  A transducer would capture the lows and the speaker would play the full spectrum with a delay.  I would mess around with different gain settings on the transducer creating sounds reminiscent of the old radios.

It was when I started to get feedback from the transducer I decided to play around with different materials and EQ settings.  I was able to create a feedback loop that was controllable that it wouldn't peak and kill your ear drums.  And as you changed microphone placement the pitch would also change.  The delay FX were used to bring depth to the tones.  It sounded like whales to me.

In-N-Out Language

I started altering the inputs of the example Jupiter Notebook that was provided:

Emojis are fun and immediately gratifying

Going further I wanted to see if I could find patterns in images and text.  So I chose to use a checkerboard to see if I would see any repeats in the text translation.  I tested a few languages.

Seems only this one provided an obvious repeat in the code with the Ø

I also wanted to experiment with audio but changing all the functions and variables yielded the same sub-second audio clip.

MONO

The Feedback Dance

The idea was to make both the source and the output mobile instead of fixed.  Using a Feedback loop I wanted to see how people moved in order to avoid the blaring feedback spike and if it was possible to find a position where the feedback was balanced and under control.

I also wore the speaker on my back while playing guitar in a stairwell to see how the direction of my body could impact or accentuate the notes being played.  It was hard for me to notice when the speaker was fixed to me unless I came close to the wall in which the reflection of sound was more prominent.