ryanorsinger/creative_coding_notes

Multimedia notes, video synthesis, resources, etc...

Creative Coding, Multimedia Arts, Synthesis, Machine Learning for Multimedia

Themes, Topics

• Video Synthesis/Modulation
• The Man-Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine)
• Algorave
• Audio & Video synthesis
• ML for multimedia arts/installations
• video/audio reactivity
• application of ML to multimedia:
  • feature extraction
  • "object" recognition in audio/visual recordings / livestream
  • machine listening
• signals processing

Selected Readings and overviews

• "On The Fly" Documentary about live, creative coding
• https://thebookofshaders.com/
• Overview of Softare/Coding concepts https://natureofcode.com/book/preface/

Gizmos

• https://monome.org/
• https://technosynth.com/en/produit/memory-palace/

Platforms

• https://tidalcycles.org/ live coding environment for algorithmic composition (using Supercollider), synthesis, and I/O manipulatoin
• https://meyda.js.org/ audio feature extraction library
• https://hydra.ojack.xyz/ is a video synthesis platform (browser interface, Node JS)
• Touch Designer https://derivative.ca/

Circuit Bending

• http://www.anti-theory.com/, Reed Ghazala
• Pixel bending
  • https://fubar.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Glitchwerks-Camera-Bending-TipsnTricks-at-Fubar2k22.pdf

Inspiration, Galleries

• https://hydra.ojack.xyz/garden/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igdj6KrRGfQ
• https://www.instagram.com/glitchwerks/?hl=en
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F24J-AZfvQU

Communities, Meetups

• Monome Lines https://llllllll.co/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/videobending
• https://www.reddit.com/r/CircuitBending/
• https://fubar.space/2022/glitch-cameras/

Crazy Ideas:

• Port Hydra to Glitch.com to make easily remixable and also fork/expand the synthesis engine?
• Make Tidal Cycles available in the browser? Is there already something in this space?