Max/MSP/Jitter, Firewire video camera (iSight), Glass, Water, Sugar, Coloured Dyes, 2ch or multi-channel (configurable) sound, data projector.

Duration c. 15 - 20 min

In this work, movement and colour are used to generate a sound environment based on real-time fof synthesis and spatialisation. The slow and evolving patterns of coloured dye in a viscous liquid are mapped into various sound synthesis parameters.

The amount of movement, Cartesian coordinates and colour are used as time changing parameters used to control the fof synthesis and also determine the spatialisation characteristics. A fof ('Fonction d'onde formantique' or Formant Synthesis) can be thought of as a grain representing a fundamental period of a signal corresponding to a formant. Density, formants, grain characteristics and frequency are derived from the gesture input from the video camera.

The performance begins with silence and an empty glass of water. As the first drop of dye enters the water, the first fof sound event is generated, determined by the characteristics of the drop (speed, colour, shape) and spatialised in response to the shape unfolding of the coloured dye.

Review in RealTime Arts by Samara Mitchell
"The software interprets the motion and colour of the ink, triggering a sound event in a process based on the principles of granular synthesis. A sound 'grain' is the smallest (and therefore irreducible) particle of sound. The result is a drug-free and neurologically intact synaesthesia. Experiencing the seamless choreography of movement, colour and macro-sound in Drummondís work lends itself to that phenomenal sensation of universal is-ness or, as a friend of mine once described it, that feeling you get when you sense the "thingy-ness of things"."

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Performances

1 / 4 _ i n c h 2005
Thursday 29th September 2005 Wollongong
Faculty of Creative Arts Gallery at the Faculty of Creative Arts
University of Wollongong
7:30pm - 9:30pm

with: Kreepa and Garth Paine - Laptops (UK); Ros Bandt - Laptop and Recorder (Melbourne)

1 / 4 _ i n c h 2005
Wednesday 28th September 2005 Sydney
Perform at the Frequency Lab (aka Knot Gallery)
342 Elizabeth St Surry Hills, Level 1
Opposite the Dental Hosp.
8pm

with: Kreepa - Laptop (UK); Tom Fitzgerald (MIDI Violin); John Maddox - (Double Bass/loops/FX)

2005 Australasian Computer Music Conference
12 - 14 July 2005
Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
thursday 14 July 2005
Concert 5 1.30pm
The Loft
level 5 Z2

e)scapes #1 2005
winter edition
Into the tumult sent an alien sound
June 23 2005, Medium Rare Gallery 70 regent st, redfern, nsw

Sonic Connections 2004
Friday 10th September 2004, University Of Wollongong.
Spatialised via the CHESS 16-speaker loud-speaker array.
3D Sound Theatre David Worrall

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