Me and a friend [electronic musician Rafael Toral]  had this idea,
already some 5 years ago, to build a SOUND-TO-LIGHT synth/processor.

By that time, we built a LIGHT CUBE: a 1x1x1 m cube on white plexy
glass. On the base it had a matrix of cheap 25W bulbs with RGB filters.
The Red, Green and Blue "channels" were connected to cheap
SOUND-TO-LIGHT modulators, repsectively to BASS, MEDIUM, TREBLE
frequencies.
We used on different live performances  and it played amazingly -
producing colours to the music in such a way that, for people in the
room, it looked like the CUBE was producing the sound.
On the premiere [ we were playing as opening act for Sonic Youth] both
of us were playing sound, and the cube was responding by itself. On
subsequent gigs, I was just on the CUBE. I had a sound mixer just for
my job, getting the same sound channels that were being sent to the
FOH, and I could select which channels were triggering the
Sound-to-light modulators, and I could fiddle with the EQs and gain, to
enhance the CUBE performance.

from that experience we tought about building a more sophisticated
SOUND-TO-Light modulator.
which would inlclude patching features for sound input and CV output;
envelopes [attack, decay, sustain, release], parametric eq by channel,
etc...
even a MIDI clock / beat detector.
we never built it because we could not find an electronic engeneer to
work on it.

Recently, Rafael has become a MAX/MSP expert and has build some sound
analyser patches.
Now, me, I'm getting into this LANBOX thing.

thanks
João Paulo Feliciano

ps: on another post I will tell you about my frirst, and very recent,
experience with LANBOX.

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