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<h2 id="orgheadline1"><a id="ID-08e6c257-d012-42d8-b220-f9484cb1a2ab"></a>Modulant</h2>
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<p><a href="images/modulant-klee-c.png" alt="&quot;Modulant&quot;" title="Modulant playing a Klee drawing" width="640px" height="360px"><img src="images/modulant-klee-c.png" alt="&quot;Modulant&quot;" title="Modulant playing a Klee drawing" width="640px" height="360px" /></a>
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<p><span class="figure-number">Figure 2:</span> Goldsmiths, University of London, 6 Feb 2015</p>
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<p><a href="images/xenakis-upic-children.gif" alt="&quot;Xenakis showing UPIC to children&quot;" title="Xenakis showing UPIC to children" width="640px" height="360px"><img src="images/xenakis-upic-children.gif" alt="&quot;Xenakis showing UPIC to children&quot;" title="Xenakis showing UPIC to children" width="640px" height="360px" /></a>
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<p><span class="figure-number">Figure 3:</span> Xenakis showing UPIC to children</p>
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interactive audio-visual instrument
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<a href="https://processing.org/">Processing</a>, <a href="http://libpd.cc/">libpd</a>
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If you are not a musician, making music with an instrument you've just picked up isn't going to be easy.
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<b>Modulant</b> is an experiment to recreate possibly the simplest and most intuitive interface for visual composition of sounds &amp; music.
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<td class="org-left">The horizontal axis of the painter's canvas is mapped onto time; the vertical axis is mapped onto a pitch spectrum spanning 10 octaves. The canvas is scanned from left to right, and at each</td>
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timestep the pixels on the current vertical line is sonified.
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<b>Inspired by</b> Evgeny Murzin's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer">ANS synthesizer</a> (1958) which came out of his search for a "Universal Synthesizer"; and by Iannis Xenakis' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPIC">UPIC</a> (1977), "a unique music-composing and educational tool for non-musicians, artists, programmers and children".
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<b>Follows</b> a long history of <a href="http://www.flong.com/texts/publications/thesis/">Painterly Interfaces for Audiovisual Performance</a>.
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<b>Developed</b> as part of <a href="http://www.gen-av.org/gen-av-1/">Gen.AV 1 | new tools for performance with generative audiovisuals</a>.
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<b>Audience feedback</b> from the evaluation survey (47 participants):
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<td class="org-left">Audio-Visual Relation (1=worst to 5=best)</td>
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<td class="org-right">4.63</td>
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<td class="org-left">Enjoyed more (1=audio to 5=visuals)</td>
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<b>Featured at</b> <a href="https://nime2015.lsu.edu/proceedings/230/index.html">NIME 2015: Prototyping Audiovisual Performance Tools: A Hackathon Approach</a>
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<b>Available at</b> <a href="https://github.com/AVUIs/Modulant">AVUIs/Modulant</a>
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<b>Reflection</b>
The strength of drawing-based musical instruments is also their weakness: they are very intuitive because the audio-visual mapping is direct, precise, and free from additional semantics &#x2013; but the very same directness and lack of semantics make building up to a composition difficult.
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The same is true for Modulant. As a tool for sound design and exploration, it offers infinite possibilities; however, its visual language and painterly interface are both too precise and not rich enough at the same time for comfortably devising musical compositions.
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<b>Background &amp; Resources</b>
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<li><a href="http://www.umatic.nl/tonewheels_historical.html">A Brief History of Optical Synthesis</a>, by Derek Holzer</li>
<li><a href="http://asmir.info/book_soundinz.htm">Sound in Z &#x2013; Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music</a>, by Andrey Smirnov</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer">ANS synthesizer</a>, Wikipedia</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPIC">UPIC</a>, Wikipedia</li>
<li><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/drawing-electroacoustic-music.pdf?c=icmc;idno=bbp2372.2008.113">Thiebaut, Jean-Baptiste, et al. "Drawing electroacoustic music." Proc. ICMC. Vol. 8. 2008.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.flong.com/texts/publications/thesis/">Painterly Interfaces for Audiovisual Performance - Golan Levin and Collaborators</a></li>
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