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Old 04-09-2013, 11:41 AM   #1
abossakon

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Default Theremin as AV Controller: Specialized Facts from Spacedog
The link is seen by [you cannot when you are perhaps not recorded in. Click here to login or here to register.] You've noticed the Theremin as a sound-making device. However it could be a MIDI controller, as well an significant and extremely painful and sensitive one. Continuing our DIY round-up, listed here are the facts in the event you had prefer to check it out yourself. </p> When we last heard from Sarah Angliss and Spacedog, we were presented for their [You can't begin to see the link when you are perhaps not recorded in. Click here to login or here to register.] Clara 2.0. Today, they're utilizing the Theremin being an audiovisual control, causing video and sound examples from the 1968 movie The Devil Rides Out and my own favorite, a parakeet instruction record. The end result is just a new edition of the ballad 'Willow's Song' conspiracy traditional The Wicker Man (1973). the link is seen by [You cannot when you are perhaps not recorded in. Click here to login or here to register.] should you choose not.) Listed here is a live show of the result: I thought visitors may want to know more about a control as how to make use of the Theremin, therefore I asked Sarah for more details. Live theremin AV control in Willow’s Song (Hammer meal blend) Here, you're seeing a tune featuring Spacedog's theremin AV control. The Hammer examples are now being scrubbed (i.e. pace managed) live utilizing the theremin. I've invented a Max/MSP area that allows me to take action - this scrubs the movie stay. Paul (in the inexperienced tee-shirt) is cueing in the examples whilst the music continues. Whilst the illumination in the gallery wasn’t ideal for projection, our usual visuals were added by we’ve onto this picture, throughout the change (sorry - we all know that's unfaithful). Do arrive to 1 of our concert events, If you like to begin to see the real point. :-) That amount examples the Hammer classic The Devil Rides Out (1968), combining it with Jenny's live performance of the Willow’s Song from that other British occult classic The Wicker Man (Paul Giovanni, 1973 ).  The initial test is from a 1950s Parakeet education report. The line-up: Jenny Angliss (words), Sarah Angliss (theremin and AV scrubber), Ben Kypreos (guitar), Mike Blow (cueing examples), Colin Uttley (camera) Specialized facts All theremins give a simple tone to you with a volume and varying frequency. Put that in to pc software, such as for instance Max/MSP, that allows you to investigate quantity and frequency in real-time and you've the foundation of an AV scrubber. A continual frequency measurement is simply hooked by me as much as the groove~ control in Max noise and the price control of a Jitter movie to show my theremin into a very theatrical AV scrubber that I could use, live, throughout a tune. Therefore a in frequency, as I increase an on the theremin, increases the rate of the video and sound I do some maths on the frequency dimension. There are numerous methods to measure consistency in real-time. Luckily, the theremin produces a waveform that's extremely predicable so it's simple to use methods that depend on zero-crossing. Then you've something very helpful - a voltage is proportional to frequency and that that you could determine directly, if your theremin has CV out. You should use this to manage almost anything, from lights to music, for example utilizing a Phidget or Arduino panel. I would rather stay away of such a thing related to midi because, as a, I like all the ‘flexible’ (i.e. wobbily and incorrect) focusing that's area of the instrument's personality. As midi may quantize your message in to nice, entire figures, I believe employing midi with a theremin is missing a key. But I understand that is down seriously to individual style. I guess the hardest and most significant bit would be to find a really good effect to be created by the right samples. However that's the case, whatever control you're using. Pleased thereminininining! Debbie Spacedog UK The link is seen by [you cannot when you are perhaps not recorded in. Click here to login or here to register.]  Used the Theremin in different ways? Got your personal control plan? Let's know. the link is seen by JJ cannot when you are perhaps not recorded in. Click here to login or here to register.][/COLOR][/B]
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