Re: hoarding...

[Stefan Tiedje <Stefan-Tiedje@addcom.de>]

Zoe Keating wrote:
> wow. it was pretty impressive. punchy, quick cut. there was no way he  
> was using a mouse though.

All my interface design in Max patches is about getting rid of the 
mouse, its good if you don't ever even think of using the mouse live...

My main input device was an ancient MixTAB from Fostex, now its a Pocket 
Fader and a Pocket Dial from Doepfer. Other gear is a little (very 
transportable) Yamaha CBX-K1 mini keyboard and the cheap Yamaha DD-11 
drumpads (never used the sounds, found it on a flea market).

As I remember from the video of Lidell, he was using heavy video 
processing as well, you can even use a video camera as a controller, if 
you'd play with an orange glove for example, it would be very easy to 
track your hand movement. I guess its even possible without a glove.

There is software out which will track your mouth movement, it will be 
able to distinguish an "o" from a closed mouth or from an "a".

Though for timecritical controls there is nothing which can beat a 
simple footswitch. A video at a framerate of 25 or 30 images per second 
is way too slow...

And regarding Lidell's show, you don't know if there are more musicians 
behind the curtains which do some extra control...

And regarding your original "hoarding" post, I happily add my 
"Delaysequencer" Max patch to your collection, though I doubt that its 
of any use for you (as it needs to be played with faders and knobs and 
has no documentation at all), but it would certainly be fun to let you 
play through it while I control it...

Stefan

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