ipod, upod, weallpod
This is the second patch I created for the Afternoon Delight Karaoke performance. Like the first one, this is also driven by the audio input of the karaoke performer. But there is a departure from the first project. I am reinterpreting the iconic ipod commercials. In the commercials we see silhouetted dancers moving about the screen while wearing the white earphones that ipod has trademarked. In this piece I am claiming that visual back to the live sense of performed music. Rather than the pre-recorded isolated sense of listening to your ipod. The audio drives the speed and change of the various video sequences. I am also simply poking fun at the consumer driven culture that we have come to recognize as being ‘normal’. I wanted to re-interpret videos that have been received as iconic and associated with a particular way of enjoying music and subverting that to a live singer that allows the entire audience to participate in the music that they are listening to, rather than through head-phones.
Here is an image of the patch created in Max/Msp/Jitter. . .

This is also a video clip of the art work in action.
This is also the compressed text format of the patch itself. You would need to create your own video footage to use in the patch as mine is not included.
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