What I Know - for Solo Percussionist & Scripted Looping

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More info about the piece: connorshafran....
Performed by Justin Lamb
Composed and programmed by Connor Shafran
Commissioned by
Justin Lamb Chris Amick Trevor Barroero Justin Bunting Omar Carmenates Andrew Eldridge Chris Harris Leila Hawana Kanda Cameron Leach YoungKyoung Lee David Lord Marco Díaz Pérez Matthew Sandridge Rick Schadt Sam Sherer James Vilseck Jordan Walsh

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@Garyyost 7 ай бұрын

Gobsmackingly beautiful and brilliant and so utterly simple conceptually that it almost defies reality. Listening with headphones, this performance is unbelievably immersive and quite emotional... there's something about how we all grew up banging on things like tabletops and now seeing the ultimate manifestation of that. Just pure joy here... takes me all the way back to childhood. My guess is that this is accomplished with your Python scripting in Ableton Live technique but for the life of me I cannot figure out how Justin hit those marks and how this is even humanly possible. BRAVISIMO!!!!!!!!

@connorshafran 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words - I'm happy you enjoyed it! The original idea was to build it in Ableton (with ClyphX Pro), but I also wanted to make it accessible to people who don't have Ableton. Additionally, I wanted to build a custom user interface so that everything is specifically tailored to the piece. For that, I used Max/MSP (Cycling 74) to build a stand-alone application that anyone can download and run on their computer.

@Garyyost 7 ай бұрын

@@connorshafran Who I'd never even heard of Max, and love it! "A Playground for Invention" indeed! Will look into that more... coincidentally in my past life I invented another software named Max that was also a playground for invention... 3ds Max.

@MajaWlazy 7 ай бұрын

Awesome composition and performance! Congrats!!!

@Splines 7 ай бұрын

Wow, stunning composition and performance, it must have been a great challenge to play this so perfectly aligned that the illusion really comes across. At first, I thought you somehow managed to capture the position on the table and transform it into information on how to vary the DSP effects. Even more impressive to find out it is all pre-setup automation you have to precisely match during the live performance.

@connorshafran 7 ай бұрын

Motion-capture would also be an interesting way to do it, and also technically very challenging. Sounds expensive ;) Automation + click-track is more reliable and consistent.

@Splines 7 ай бұрын

@@connorshafran Oh, didn't think of motion-capture, that'd also be an interesting way, but yes: sounds expensive... Another way could be to position a camera from above, feed its stream into your computer, use image processing tools to detect the position of the hands and the edges of the table and convert that into Midi information to feed into the DAW, e.g. calculate the distance to the edges and have the left edge set to a min value and right edge to a max value etc. But, yeah, that's probably technically challenging to setup (and it has to be real-time). It would help to stick some post-its to the back of the hands such that tracking is easier ;) Another way could be to build a whole table equipped with sensors that are pressure-sensitive, like a giant midi controller. Just fantasizing...

@connorshafran 7 ай бұрын

@@Splines It's possible to use a camera from above, but it would need to have *very* consistent lighting conditions, and probably wouldn't be very reliable. Would also need some kind of external software to handle the pixel analysis, and then that data would need to be sent to the audio software, which would cause extra latency. But more importantly... mounting the camera above the player so that it doesn't move at all and doesn't distract from the performance - that would be the biggest challenge!