"Spatial Sound Transformation toolkit for Max" by Anders Tveit (Norway)

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The Spatial Sound Transformation toolkit for Max is a range of Max modules in the form of bpatchers build around IRCAM´s Spat5 library and has been developed throughout my own artistic practice but also through lectures and workshops I have given in artistic and creative use of ambisonic over the past years.

Spatial Sound Transformation toolkit for Max

A presentation and demo of my Spatial Sound Transformation toolkit for Max, which is a range of Max modules in the form of bpatchers build around IRCAM´s Spat5 library and has been developed throughout  my own artistic practice but also through lectures and workshops I have given in artistic and creative use of ambisonic over the past years.

Combined with my interest in mapping, sonification and sound transformation have led me to create and explore artistic techniques of using (and misusing) ambisonics and other formats where these techniques emphasize thinking outside the box and establishing a direct relationship between shaping the material and “bending” the sounding space.

The toolkit offers a range of such methods, where spatiality arises naturally from the sound’s transformation rather than from a choreographed placement of point sources. Additionally, the toolkit simplifies both patching and working with ambisonics by providing automated channel and connection handling.