a KeyKit-like environment for visual music experimentation

[Tim Thompson]

Hi!  I just wanted to let people know of my intention and direction in terms of what I'm working on lately, and how it relates to KeyKit.  I'm doing as much as possible these days using Go as the programming language, for a variety of reasons.  Go is a well-designed modern language with garbage collection that has made programming (for me) fun again, and it includes important compatibility promises at the source code level that simultaneously encourages open-source code sharing as well as long-term reliability.

My long-term goal is to create an environment that allows easy experimentation in a "visual music" world, similar to the way KeyKit did in a purely MIDI world.

The github repo where I'm starting to do this is https://github.com/vizicist/palette , which is the Space Palette software I use to do stuff like this:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtxEyCI_zc .  It's currently packaged in a way that lets non-programmers use it to do visual finger-painting with Resolume 7, Windows, and the Sensel Morph.  The core of the system is written in Go, although it also currently uses Python (for a GUI) and C/C++ (for the FreeFrame plugin that runs inside Resolume).  I'm actively working on replacing the Python GUI with Go, as well as experimenting with a KeyKit-like GUI written in Go.

This effort is very long-term, so I expect that github repo to evolve quite a bit as I experiment with different approaches.  If you use Go and are interested in or have thoughts about a KeyKit-like system for visual music written in Go, please send email to m...@timthompson.com

     ...Tim...

[Hamburg_DE]

Dear Tim,

what an awesome long-term project to “…create an environment that allows easy experimentation in a ‘visual music’ world, similar to the way KeyKit did in a purely MIDI world” !

Please excuse that the following link is a bit off-topic here in the keykit group - but I thought that the idea of Grant Sanderson (https://www.3blue1brown.com/about), author of the 3blue1brown-Youtube channel, presents an inspiring mathematical approach to relate visuals and sound generation. Enjoy Hilbert curves...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s7h2MHQtxc

All the best
Holger

[Tim Thompson]

Thank you for the video link!  Interpreting graphics as sound and sound as graphics is definitely on-topic!   If you haven't seen the Playmodes Forms work, check it out, their twitch.tv stream is endlessly interesting: https://www.twitch.tv/playmodes    More details on their work at https://playmodes.com 

     ...Tim...

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