event
Synthux Hackathon 2024

Hum Doom

A synthesizer intervenes by past and present.
MaxMSP
Arduino
Magnetic sensor
Online data
prompt

Coaches & collaborators

Jessica Wolpert, Ewan Peng
institute
Goldsmiths University London
This project mainly uses maxmsp to generate sounds, and consists of stock data captured by python and a controller made by esp32. The original idea originated from Rob Hordijk's classic rungler.Rather than a chaotic system in a circuit, we wanted to create a mysterious instrument that was influenced by the entire world.
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the tech

How does it work?

We found that the data produced by stocks are the most representative of the world's changes. Based on this, we used pyhton to crawl stock APIs from the world, and then selected the most representative data and transmitted it to Maxmsp through OSC. There is real-time data and past data We compare the 2008 S&P 500 curve. Daily data is converted into a sequence, and a random function is used to extract the sequence to control the pitch of the main oscillator. This main oscillator is simultaneously FM-modulated by another oscillator (controlled by real-time stock data). This controller can control the filter envelope (adsr) and BPM, etc. by controlling sound through data, the past. This project is a piece of music created by the fusion of the performer with the world of the past and present.
Open source code
Click here to grab this project's code
MaxMSP
Visual programming language for music and multimedia
Arduino
Development board
Magnetic sensor
A magnetic sensor converts the magnitude and variations of a magnetic field into electric signals.
Online data
Captures data in real time from web APIs
About the instrument
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