Ticking PotterDraw @ckorda

Chris Korda | Ticking PotterDraw @ckorda | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 minutes ago.
This video visualizes music in complex polymeter as a shape-morphing hyperobject. It's a type of synesthesia, in which you see music and/or hear visuals. The music is "Ticking" from "More Than Four," available on Chapelle XIV, and created using the Polymeter MIDI Sequencer. The visual was created using a modified version of PotterDraw, which is a synthesizer for virtual pottery. Both apps are free and open-source. Six instrumental parts, each in a different time signature, are mapped to six visual parameters: Stab in 4/4 = Twist, Bass in 17/16 = Ripple Depth, Train in 7/8 = Scallop Depth, Warm in 33/16 = Bend Depth, Choke in 13/16 = V Cycles, B Lead in 5/4 = Polygon Roundness.

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