and hoped that I could accomplish something similar to this one. So I started out trying to build just one object (like a sphere) and tried to manipulate its size and color as the music plays. But I struggled with making the object as complicated as the one I show in the video.

So I changed my mind and tried to do something that is more achievable for me. After following this tutorial

to build a particle system, I tried to rebuild the patch so that the particle system can react to music. I also added color features into my patch – I can change the background color of my world, and change the brightness of my particles so that the particle system won’t look too boring. Users can adjust the amplitude of the particle system and the size of the system to achieve different effects. To demonstrate that, I made the presets to show the different visualizations my system can achieve through just changing numbers in some number boxes.

Here is a video I recorded that is me demonstrating the patch:

And here is the link to the google drive.

So then I started my project by making the luminance control part of my project. And I tried to look at some YouTube videos, Max tutorials, and examples from build-in Max patches to see how a vocoder work. Then I used the framework of a build-in Max patcher (a bpatcher) to build some of the sound distortion functions in my patch. I also have successfully connected my luminance level detector to one of the sound distortion functions so that the luminance level controls the pitch of the distortion.

After these, I thought about ways to make my patch more interesting and interactive. I build a boomerang function in my Max patch with the help of tutorials from YouTube so that we are able to layer into one audio source over and over again to create music or even just something fun. So now my project is something that allows people to record sounds into one layer over and over again, and people may use it to produce some kind of goofy sounds/graceful music with the press of a space bar.

Here is a screenshot for my main patch:

Here is the patch in my google drive:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AQxTk3KJUArXPtQmaLf659QtU1iyne8x

Here is the link to the shared google drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1j85d7QPtapCU3ipD7jfgV__8gMEyamKD

Here is the original audio:

For the four impulses, I recorded with my phone a water splash sound, a turn light on/off sound, a close door sound, and a put phone on hard surface sound.

And here are the results. I guess the close door, the turn light on/off, and the put phone on hard surface sounds were similar in tones that they produce similar results.

here is my code:

<pre><code>
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-----------end_max5_patcher-----------
</code></pre>

link to google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13ekcRPyOaUoT0ShmhACQkqLTy2Sw42pF?usp=sharing

Since Youtube only lets me upload videos, I also went on to photo editing so that I can make my audio into a video. I found a picture of Sans online and used adobe photoshop to blur the image. Every time I record a new track I associate the new track with a more blurred Sans image.

here is the video: https://youtu.be/Oq4BCQxC2Vg

Oh and by the way, the extra sound at the end of the video was my roommate comming back from outside and I didn’t delete that part since I want to record the complete resonance.

Before I settled with the music idea I was experimenting with a video recording idea. Since I am a heavy gamer I used to stream myself playing video games. So I wanted to record the video of a record of my screen, again and again, to see what will come out in the end. However, after about 10 records, the video I made had about the same quality as my original video. And as I was getting tired of hearing the same voice again and again, watching the same video again and again, and editing them again and again, I chose to take a new approach – which is the music one.

Here is a comparison of my original video and the rerecorded video after 13 times:

This is the original video: https://youtu.be/pb0GB6yWQRo

This is the 13th video: https://youtu.be/ziWz0gIBy60

Here is the link to the google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ByCgIZcj8lpVkCu-5J4I4mMdc_FPDxUY?usp=sharing