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Synthesthesia
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Patches for audio synthesis from edge detection.

video camera -> edge detection -> audio synthesis.

Author: Alexandre Quessy

(c) 2012 Alexandre Quessy
License: GPL v3 or above

This project has been initiated by a group of artists members of Perte de signal, an artist-run centre in Montreal, Canada.
Artists Alexandre Quessy, Darsha Hewitt, Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Claudette Lemay from Perte de Signal conceived the workshop SYNTHESTHESIA as part of DHC/ART Education events in conjunction with the Ryoji Ikeda exhibition.
Participants were invited to create an experimental sound composition using collages made from black and white paper that they created themselves.
These collages were then analyzed by the free application also called SYNTHESTHESIA, using these visual scores to generate sounds.

Thanks to Zack Settel for his help with creating a vocoder with the FFT objects.


Dependencies
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Software: Pure Data, Lunch

Pure Data libraries: GEM, zexy


Installation and usage
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How to install it::

  sudo apt-get install puredata pd-zexy gem python-lunch
  sudo apt-get install git
  mkdir -p ~/src
  cd ~/src
  git clone git://github.com/aalex/synthesthesia.git
  cd synthesthesia
  lunch -g launch.lunch
  cp restart-synthesthesia.sh ~/Desktop/

See also doc/install-deps.txt and doc/interactive-use.txt

See the HACKING document about how to extend Synthesthesia with more instruments.