https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=0qdhJajKoYs

My goal was to make an instrument out of only tuned feedback (with maybe an impulse or two to get it going) that I could control by waving my hand around over a sensor.
The bread and butter of the patch consists of eight delay lines that are each tuned to a frequency.  Each delay line has two filters set to the same pitch as the line and a compressor on the feedback into the tapin/tapout line.  To choose the harmonic content I made a subpatch to propagate semi random pitches to each delay line, or you can play notes one by one on the kslider.  Finally, there’s some reverb and delay in line before the whole mess feeds back into itself.
The other important component is a Leap Motion controller being fed into Wekinator to provide control data for this whole mess.

I mapped the resonators onto the horizontal plane so that i could choose which pitch to emphasize with the position of my hand.  Height selects the octave, with high being octave up and low being the fundamental.  The openness of my hand controls the brightness of the timbre of the resonators.  The distance between my hands controls the speed of the metro trigging the random note propagation device.

i still consider this a work in progress but i’m happy turning this in and would have fun performing with this.

I tried to pass the same data to control the lighting rig in the lab but results were underwhelming…

Wekinator training files here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4yijpatn9gsnsvv/feedback%20handcontrol%2020161106.zip?dl=0

Pt. 1

pt. 2

pt. 3