Monotype MIDI
Categories: Artistic/Visual Project or Installation
Submitted By: Edwin Pickstone and Paul Maguire
Elevator Pitch
Monotype MIDI
Product Description
How It’s Innovative
The software fuses old and new ideas and technologies in order to reveal untapped musical potential in the world of books, texts, poems and stories. Sources of random pitch and gate signals such as white-noise are a mainstay of electronic music production. Whilst this system can be used similarly to the popular eurorack Turing Machine or Buchla Source of Uncertainty modules, MonotypeMIDI excels in creating pseudo-random CV which the performer channels and loops inspired by their interpretation of the text being processed.
See MIDI Innovation In Action
Most Inspiring Use Cases
Applying the system to favourite poems or stories often reveals hidden and unexpected rhythms and repetitions. This embedded musicality offers wonderful new opportunities to explore the written word in combination through the world of texture, melody and rhythm available through electronic music equipment. A particular favourite with the team has been processing examples of Concrete Poetry where striking visual rhythms and repetitions are instantly translated into musical space to inspire the performer in creating improvised or arranged soundscapes and compositions.
Expansion Plans
MonotypeMIDI was created in Processing using the MIDIbus Library and would not be possible without the generous support of the Open Source community. We aim to release the Software as Open Source. We are also working on an EP release with a range of electronic musician (mostly) based in our home town of Glasgow, Scotland.
Commercialization
None.