Archive of the sounds of work.
By a consortium of six museums – Torsten Nillson, project leader
Air pump from Prussian steam locomotive: http://www.workwithsounds.eu/sound/air-pump-steam-locomotive/
How far can you get?
Distance to nearest McDonald’s.
By Stephen Von Worley at Data Pointed
http://www.datapointed.net/2009/09/distance-to-nearest-mcdonalds/
10 hour videos
Elevator music generator
By Stefan Brunner at Cycling 74
https://cycling74.com/2014/12/19/music-hack-for-max-7-elevator-music-generator/
Musical squares
AARON
“A software program by artist Harold Cohen that creates original artistic images.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARON
Here are examples created by the 2001 Windows Screensaver version, formerly distributed by Kurzweil http://franz.com/success/customer_apps/artificial_intelligence/cohen.lhtml
By the artist: http://web.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/cohen.html
Interval signals online
“Interval signals, signature tunes, airchecks and identification announcementsfrom international, domestic and clandestine radio stations around the world.”
By David Kernick, in cooperation with Documentary Archives Radio Communications
http://www.intervalsignals.net
Radio Burkina: http://www.intervalsignals.net/countries/burkina_faso.htm
Azerbaijan Radio – Radio Respublika: http://www.intervalsignals.net/Files/aze-azr_respublika_281111.m3u
Whitney music box
A musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book “digital harmony”
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Digital Harmony: http://teaching.thesystemis.com/algo11/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/TheProblem_HowShallMotionPatternTime.pdf
This Exquisite Music Engine
Automobile airplane engine in Max
An update of the automax project
This is a Max patch that generates engine sounds (car, airplane, and spaceship) by reading RPM data from a bluetooth OBD-II sensor in an automobile. It uses Max adaptations of Pd patches by Andy Farnell from “Designing Sound”. And a Fourier filter patch (spaceship) by Katja Vetter.
In this audio clip, an airplane engine sound is mixed with a car engine sound.
The Max patch has been updated to detect available bluetooth devices. The audio example above was done with this device (Bluetooth Supper Mini OBD 2/OBD II ELM 327 Power 2)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NP5RPQ
But any Elm 327 device should work, as long as it will connect with your computer.
The device pictured above needs to be deleted and re-paired each time you use it (code: 1234). I would recommend looking for something else.
Download
https://github.com/tkzic/automax
Files
Main patch
automax.maxpat
Abstractions and other files
- engine-overtone.maxpat
- fourierfilter.maxpat
- hextoint.maxpat
- vz.nanoctrlr-tz.maxpat
- max-pd-abstractions folder (needs to be in Max file path or a subdirectory)
Instructions
Follow the sequence of events as directed in the patch. Starting by selecting your device from the menu in the upper left corner. If there is a problem with the serial connection you will get “read 0” messages – or an error in the Max window.
Set the polling rate as slow as possible (700 ms.) and then work backwards.
The Korg NanoKontroller works with this patch too.