Live 4 Life - A spatial performance tool focused on rhythm and parameter loops
Christophe Lengelé · International Computer Music Conference · 2018
This paper presents a global and integrated spatialization tool that aims to improve and facilitate sound creation process over multiple loudspeakers, from composition to performance. Implemented in SuperCollider, it has a multi-time scale approach, where spatialization is determined both locally on single sound elements and globally on event streams. It seeks to set up a comprehensive library of predefined spatialization models with a dynamic and quick selection among both rendering algorithms and also concrete and abstract spatial composition techniques for an arbitrary, ever-changing number of sources. This programme places emphasis on spatial, rhythmic and other synthesis parameter loops to create polyrhythmic spatializations and aims to question the development of spatio-temporal links between sound objects, their treatments or their reflections in real time.