Welcome Maureen!
On Jun 29, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Maureen Anderson wrote:
Hello,
I'm completely new to Pd and trying to follow the Pd floss tutorial
and Johannes Kreider's "Loadbang" to learn the basics of Pd. I have
a project goal/idea I would like to experiment with both for its own
sake, but also as a way to learn the program. Below is a
description of what I would like to do followed by questions
concerning developing it.Project description I would like to create a datafile of video and/or video files.
Audio files would be a collection of speakers of languages other
than English or "speaking in tongues" which could be mixed in real
time by either some other group of people speaking English (or
creating whatever sound) into a microphone to "simulate" or be mixed
as what the "real time speaker/activator" is saying. This has
nothing to do with speech recognition, but "sound recognition??"
The video idea is similar. A camera is set up stationary in a
controlled room recording hours of dance footage (same light, same
space, same color, one figure in the same clothing moving in
space...the only variable being unchoreographed movements that get
habituized over time though not learned by rote). With the same
concept as the audio (though with the same human figure/dancer and
not a new actor/activator), the movement in the space in individual
frames per second would be matched up with a similar frame in the
datafile remixing individual frames to simulate the real time
action. I have seen similar works to this and would like to see if
I could work with such a project and if so what issues might pop up
as a result (for example, what kind of control might I be able to
have over the fluidness/chopiness of snippets one after the other).
This is possible, but non-trivial. If you are willing to put a solid
chunk of work into it, you can learn enough Pd to get this working.
Scrambled Hacks is an elaborate project that has some of the core
functionality that you might be interested in. It catalogs music by
sound, to be played back by live beatboxing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlhKaxcKpA
Questions concerning project:
- What kind of credit/citation could/should one give for help
given by others? For example, if a person uses patches developed or
created by someone/group/string of developers, what kind of credit
do any of you think a person could or should give? I'm not
necessarily talking about copyright laws, licensing or legal matters
per se, but what are people's thoughts about the ability, right and/ or responsibility to give credit where credit is due with open
source software? This is a subjective/philosophical question, any
opinions are welcome.
I personally want people to use my stuff first and foremost, and give
credit if they can. But I don't want copyright law, licenses, etc. to
get in the way of people creating work. I think is the central idea
of Free Software. In terms of what people post to this list and the
various Pd patches, tutorials, and documentation that's out there, I
think if you do your best to give credit where you think people
deserve it, you'll be fine.
.hc
- Based on my description, would such a project or set of projects
technically even be possible? I've tried to be as clear as possible
in my description in its initial conception. Would Pd be a good
program to execute it? Which would be better, video or audio
material, as a starting point to begin with in trying to mix in the
way I have described above in real time?
- In the Pd floss manual, there is a link to dataflow tutorials as
a .zip from the flossmanuals website, but I can't seem to access
it. Any reason why this might be?
- I'm trying to learn Pd from the ground up because that is all I
have at the moment...it feels like I'm mining metals to create
pigment in order to make paint in order to make a painting. As a
painter, I actually learned a lot about creating pigments after
years of painting with pre-given paint in tubes. How can one
balance the user/programmer issue? I think this relates back to
question one.Thanks in advance for anyone who could address any of these questions!
Mo
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