Midterm Concept

Last year I spent some time on a hardware prototype of a low-frequency oscillator that fetches live tide data to modulate other oscillators in a modular synthesizer. Link to first post. Link to second post. I completed the hardware project (having determined the need for inputs and outputs and modulation sites), but I didn’t spend a lot of time working on the programming side.

I would like to spend more time on the topical and technical side of this particular oscillator, and for the midterm I intend to have a Max/MSP-based prototype.

The planned LFO centers around four live datastreams of tidal data from around the world, and allows them to be modulated and compared and contrasted. I want to be able to:

1. let the tides run naturally as an LFO with an approximate 12.5hr period
2. address specific points within the tidal table as with control voltage,
3. force the oscillation up into the audible range so that the tide can be heard as a wave