Some mornings, you wake up, have a cup of coffee, go about your day. Some mornings, you wake up, find out your car won't start, the heating element burnt out on your dryer, and your license for Max expired sometime while you were asleep. The only thing to do on those mornings is adapt.
I don't have set working hours that I put into one project or another, instead, I randomly start working on one project or another, and keep going until I hit a roadblock. In situations where I have a deadline, this process can be a detriment, and create a feeling of stress. I don't have an existentially lesson that I can teach, I haven't found a solution to the problem of stress, all I can do is identify that it happens. Stress is simply a reality, like gravity or cheese. All anyone can do is work through it, I guess.
So, here's a quick tip in case you find yourself working on a max patch, and your license expires--you can still work on projects in Max 7, but you can't save anything.
In regards to my personal project, a visual synth, which takes MIDI information and creates structures of color, I feel I've reached and interesting point. The patch is separated into sub-patches in order to utilize the poly~ object, which allows for the multiple matrix objects I've incorporated into the overall piece. The fundamental matrix consists of 12 color bars, assigned to a chromatic scale starting in G#, and moving from red to violet, with the major colors of the rainbow correlating to the following interval: full-step, half-step, half-step, full-step, half-step, full-step, step-and-a-half. The resulting poly~ matrix is manipulated using a tiffany object, which adds an aspect of randomness to the piece, and overlap of sub layers, creating the chance of color combinations through from multiple sustained notes.
For the group project, I have a few possible compositions, which I shall share with the group.
theartofmadeline
snowghoul
kianamaiart
tangentwithtanner
annaxmalina
ellievsbear
romaincrisis
vaporwave
prguitarman
