The Project

The final project is called playing colours. The idea was to play an instrument and colours at the same time. Basically it is a colour visualisation of music. Further the colour and note are matched on their frequency. That means that the note A for example, with a frequency of 400 Hz, is visualised with the colour red, which has the same frequency, 400 Hz.
A MAX msp patch controls colour, saturation and the scale of a graphic through sound. The project was presented with a clarinet performance. Therefore the patch settings are set up for the clarinet, but can be easily changed to suit any sounds.
The used graphic is from Andrew Bensons book, Jitter Recipes Book 2 and called the catch nurbs object.