New performance techniques using Max/MSP and Csound
Arran Lowe · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2001
New musical developments have often come about with the discovery or invention of new techniques. Software programming in the Max environment and the language of Csound can allow one to develop new techniques for real-time performance. Using the computer as a compositional tool, sound design device, signal processing source, and performer, one is able to accomplish musical goals that were not possible due to the limitations of human performance with previous tools. Combining live human performers and dynamically controllable software synthesis, it is possible to attain a synergy of very familiar and very new ideas. This lecture and performance demonstration will feature some of the new musical possibilities that have resulted from undergraduate research and a dissertation in software synthesis.