When a creative task is placed in our hands, it’s not always easy to come up with an output. What if we could get some help on the way by an invisible, silent partner, that helps our own creativity in ways we can’t imagine until it has already happened.

The project invites the participants to create their own piece of music/noise/sound by composing a piece together with the computer. You might not be an excellent composer, or even have an idea of what you are doing, but that should not stop one from trying to create music. Our creation allows for even the most musically challenged to create a piece of their own as long as you’re curious enough.

A keyboard and/or keypad is used as input. The patch will start with the press of a key and the following pressed keys will generate tones. After a set number of keys is pressed there will be a brief pause when the computer generates its set of tones and a signal allows for the composer to continue pressing keys to take the piece further. After a set number of iterations the piece is finished and played back to the composer. The patch is extended with more options than to just generate tones to allow for more interesting and unique compositions. Alternatively the patch randomly applies its own settings to your composition to provide additional uniqueness every time the interaction is made.

The goal of the project was to create a patch that can generate a pleasant piece to listen to no matter what tones are played and to add on to whatever input is generated. Expectations would be of the output which, after a short pause, would be played to the participant after the final key is struck.

The pieces are then saved on the computer to create a library of unique projects.

This project was made for the course Sound, Space and Interaction