sonic surrounds

Here’s the info on my gig at electrofringe this year.

SP[AV]CE: Nick Mariette - Swarm Sands Around Scapes
A live, forty minute surround-sound performance, utilising live
processing of found and synthetic soundfields, articulating sonic
spaces. Sound as the immersive fluid of the psyche; manipulations
naturalistic, psychoacoustic, sadistic; timbres for tweaking perceptions
and tuning limbic resonances. Afterwards, a 20 minute talk about
processes used in the performance.
Artists: Nick Mariette
Event Type: Sp[av]ce
Venue: TAFE Gallery
Address: 590 - 602 Hunter Street
Date: Sunday
Time: 13:00 – 14:00

Hans Christoph Steiner has done fantastic work assembling Pure Data installers. If you haven’t already been using them for Pd, you should definitely try them out. I’ve mainly been using the OSX version (note: for library support, as instructed you can copy the included org.puredata.pd.plist to ~/Library/Preferences).

Recently I’ve been exploring the myriad external objects and abstractions available and working out of the box with the current Pd installer (Pd-0.39.2-extended-test4.dmg - soon to be updated I believe).

Following are some notes on the various objects I have tried. This list is not yet anywhere near exhaustive, though I have at least opened and tried probably 80% of the help patches. I just haven’t written anything about the less immediately interesting objects yet.

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