Re: dancing loops - D2? Ambiloop? KYMA?

["Dennis Leas" <dennis@mail.worldserver.com>]

Hi Marc!

> Does Data Sonification utilize Granular Synthesis to achieve this?

You can certainly use Granular Synthesis to do sonification.  A lot of 
other
number->sound transformations would work too.  The Algorithm Arts Software
folks ( http://algoart.com/ ) have some DNA->MIDI tools, for instance.

> Can you set this data sonification technique to respond to tempo in
anyway?

Yes!  Decoding a tap tempo is really easy in Kyma.  Automatic beat 
detection
is harder, especially depending on how sophisticated you need to be.

> If you can navigate thru the field, what parameters can you set in
relation to that?

Just about anything.  Kyma provides a large number of real-time controls in
its modules.  And you can easily combine the parameters.  For instance, I
experimented with mapping the X-Y mouse position into 5 parameters.  As you
roll the mouse around, you're actually varying five real-time controls.

Dennis Leas
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