Audio-Visuals with Max8 code
These are projects made using the software Max8 to create audio and visual works of art. I can code in Max8 to draw, manipulate 3D objects, video edit, photo edit, create audio, edit audio, transmit physical computing signals and use mathematical equations to create interesting art interactions for audio and visual.
Audio-Visual-Max 8: Radio Rave [2:43]
This is a transmodal 3D model, where visuals move with music. It varies over time with parameters and my code in Max 8 (generative and sequential algorithms). The radio moves with the song "Crab Rave", therefore the title Radio Rave.​
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I imported a 3D model (built in SketchUp) into Max8. I coded transformations that happen with the music: position, scale, rotation, changing colour and texture to create mood states.​
Audio-Visual-Max8: Chaos - a visual music work [3:05]
This is a visual music work that transforms image based on sound, using Max8, demonstrating transmodality.​
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The soundtrack I used was from Bionicle Heroes (the video game) – “Avak's Dynamo” ​
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Background was based on my own footage or generated from effects and colours in Max8. ​
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I coded all the action, transformations, colours, effects and the intended theme was "chaos".​
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Music is from Lego Bionicle Heroes video game soundtrack : Avak's Dynamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TU2bS9LUHs
Audio-Visual-Max8: Earth from death-to-birth [3:12]
​This visual music art shows how earth can be destroyed, rebuilt and thrive again, using Max8 coded transitions to show these 3 states, with multiple objects and backgrounds. This was a team project and I made the 2nd state [at 1:05-2:17], the rebuild state. I also coded the transitions between states, from state 1 to 2 and 2 to 3. The aim was to illustrate hope for the future.
Audio-Visual-Max 8: theWorld [5:23]
This immersive visual music art called theWorld, is a 3D transmodal model, where some of the visuals move with the music. You are in a cube map, theWorld, moving through architectural landmarks from all over the world, like the Coliseum, the Pyramids, the Taj Mahal, the Burj Khalifa, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House, the CN Tower, etc. ​
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It starts off as a Visual Music work in a transmodal 3D model, then becomes interactive, where the viewer can move around and watch the objects at their own pace, in a cube map (this can be done in the actual Max8 model, after the 4:45minute mark, not in the attached video).​
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I coded in Max8 for transmodal and non-transmodal effects: a mix of changes in color, texture, position, rotation and scale for the 3D objects (architechtural landmarks). I also coded the camera angles to move around each architectural landmark. ​
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Wall PNG and 3D objects were made by team members or from the internet. Music by Jon Hopkins - "Singularity". ​
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The opening was inspired by the "X-men apocalypse" 2016 movie opening title sequence and how it felt like spinning through time.
Audio-Visual-Max 8: “Indiana-Jones” and the Lost Song [2:28]
This is a transmodal 3D model I coded in Max8, where the visuals may change with the music and some are independent of the music.​
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The coded transformations include changes in shape, colour, texture, rotations, position, lighting and camera work. ​
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The 3D objects are from the internet, except the chalice(I made in TinkerCad). I imported the 3D objects into Max8 and I coded the generative and sequential algorithms.​
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Music is "The Raiders March", by John Williams, from the movie "Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981)​
Visual-Max 8: Gen-T [0:46]
This is a coded animated drawing in Max8. I used generative drawing/animation techniques to create a patch that automatically draws a generative object using Max8 objects and math. The object generates the letter T. T for Toronto. I used both the “pack” and “pak” Max8 random function to determine the line directions, and random number generators to draw the triangles.
Audio-Visual-Max 8: This is the End [2:13]
This visual music art changes the particles depending on the soundtrack. I created a soundtrack that says “our world is on fire, super virus go away..stop stop climate change”. I modified the pitch, amplitude, speed in Max 8. Created the visuals and made visuals move in line with the soundtrack i.e transmodal. ​
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I used particle effects from Max 8 for the donuts, square pixels and dots. A cube frame keeps the objects inside the frame sometimes, to “quarantine” the virus, and since the virus won’t “go away”, it sometimes escapes the quarantine cube frame. The red particles represent fire, earth is on fire, at the end and then the sun explodes!
Audio-Visual-Max8: Space Ship Diorama [1:20]
A visual music art, where visuals move with the music. This art includes a simple world with a Skybox and camera/navigation and three 3D objects. ​
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I made the cube map PNG (the wall), radio 3D object (SketchUp), other objects from the internet, with soundtrack, "Crab Rave” by Eoin O’Broin, also known as Noisestorm​
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The radio is coded to move randomly, and when it hits a wall, it will bounce off the wall instead of going through the wall. The spaceship just spins. The scale of the radio and rover changes with the music, getting bigger the louder the music gets.​
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The camera angle is only transmodal in the 2nd half of the video, where you see the camera shake with the music.​
Audio-Visual-Max 8: The Dark Alien Halloween [1:01]
I was given a challenge to give a mood to the audience, using two soundtracks, and a single pixel to modify. I used the cycle function and math to make the soundtracks using Max 8 code. I also coded the colour change according to audio, to create a mood.
Audio-Max8 : Trump Loves China
I mixed various sounds on Max8. The sounds were from the internet: clips of Donald Trump saying “China”, sound of thunder and my recordings of: calculator beeping sounds, rain falling on metal, swiping window blinds. Used max8 coding to set up sequence that manipulates the soundtrack to speeding up, change pitch, reverse sound and loop.​
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