quoted 4 lines Has anybody figured out what "oval-ization" software Markus Popp is using on
>Has anybody figured out what "oval-ization" software Markus Popp is using on
>his Powerbook? I wanted to ask him but I couldn't track him down after the
>show. A review of "Dok" in The Wire mentioned "Maxplay" but thats only a
>player for OpCode's Max. Is it Max? Someone must know. Thanks.
Max has some commands that refererence the internal CD drive in your
computer. If your drive has quick enough seek/access time you can do some
spectacular stuff, like finding and storing peaks and lows and looping
things in real time. It's a great environment. I'm sure it would be VERY
easy to ape mr. Popp with Max (if that's your thing).
On a similar note; did any of you catch Achim Wollsceid in your town? He
played here in Boston at the Gallery Insekt downtown a few days ago. A good
portion of his music were pieces performed on these voltage-pulse switches
screwed into the sockets of 16 overhead lamps strewn out along the ceiling
of the gallery scientifically to produce the widest spread. The switches
were controlled by some gold-brick like interface controlled by a PC
laptop. He created his own software and had about 10 different compostions
for this setup. When it got going, it was pure sahko/bouncing ball type
stuff, and the effect of the music depended on your location in the
gallery. Brilliant. There were also some sound-catching plaques set up,
which stored crowd noise and responded to audio above a certain frequency.
When the "show" officially started, Achim read a text, while the software
spit out reandom excerpts of the collected ambient room sounds (including a
reocurring loud bit when someone knocked his amplifier over twenty minutes
earlier). There was also some typical noise-performance, which was a little
droll. But the clackers, man, really fucking perplexing. Well worth
checking out. There's a CD of this stuff (I believe) called 'Moves' on his
label, Selektion (also home to RLW and, originally, Bernhard Gunter). I'm
not sure just how well a stereo representation would hold up (it's really a
360 degree experience), but it's worth a shot. -Hrvatski
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