Alec Albright – Looking Outwards 04

Dave Young’s “Radius Music”, released in 2010, is an audiovisual device that reads the ultrasonic distance from those that are in the room to the device itself, conducting additive synthesis to create audio and placing light beams on the floor in response to that distance. This project is admirable because of its ability to conduct complicated audio synthesis techniques on the fly, based on feedback it may have never dealt with before. I would imagine that the algorithm maps distance to pitch in some way, but I’m not sure what affects timbre, tempo, or anything else for that matter. Regardless, it seems super cool!