Category: RAPS

Tribute to my partner: Year Cao. Project Description This is a metaphorical illustration of the collision between human-constructed spatial structures and nature itself. The general concept of collision permeated through our overall design and realization of the project from the…

Links and Videos Github Link Documentation There are several ways to avoid repetitive sequences in an automated mix of synthesized sounds: Using the nested LFOs, so that the process becomes highly unpredictable, therefore added dynamical differences to the patch. Random…

Github Link The concept of this assignment is simple, but it is challenging to learn about all the mechanisms that provided the results. During making this assignment, I learned the basic logic line of max objects and the ways to…

Live Cinema, if to interpret it merely on the literal, is a collection of live performances that produce an outcome that is equivalent to a cinematic experience. That is to say, the audio and visual elements should be appreciable, but also…

Github Link I named my project Tilted Over since it involves rapid shifts that flipped the color completely. As in the context of Granular Synthesis, there are some basic features for categorizing this kind of art form.  It uses naturally recorded…

VJing, as known as Video Jockey, emerged from a parallel relative occupation of DJ — Disc Jockey. Just as DJs managing the mixing of sets of tracks and play them synchronized and continuously through a period of time at the…

The sites of my two teammates: Year Cao  Jiara Sha Project Description This piece of performance is titled Toward Ocean: 面朝大海. The name excerpted from a poem by 海子 (Hai Zi), “面朝大海，春暖花开”, (“Facing the sea that’s all I want, flowers…

The PDF version of our midterm performance project: we gave it a name Toward Ocean: 面朝大海. 面朝大海 Since our theme presented (will be presenting) in the performance is to simulate a day cycle at the ocean, we built the ground structure…

In chapter Visual Music, the authors compared the Whitney brothers with Kandinsky and Fischinger. The authors describe the Whitneys’ first experiments and masterings of computer programmed visionaries as taking another huge step forward in the field of visual music, from Kandinsky’s…

GitHub Link: https://github.com/AlanLechengChao/RAPS/blob/master/project1.maxpat I titled my work as “Unknown Molecular Structure” because it looks generally just looks like it. Though I was not intending to build a specific realization of what it is now, it doesn’t conflict with my initial…