VAudio Basics

Sound in media installations turns out to be most distinctive when synthesized reactively in real-time. The audio engine of the multipurpose toolkit vvvv interleaves with all other types of media content in a seamless workflow. As it’s supporting the huge and even free world of VST, you can get almost anything you could wish for.

What happened in the workshop?
We learned how to use the VAudio modular audio engine to make sound, obviously play back audio files, but also how to make you own synthesizer and translate arbitrary data into audio.
We also showed how you can process audio using VST plugins and learn how to record audio in vvvv.

Who was the target audience of the workshop?
Sound artists and designers who want to work with audio in vvvv and vvvv natives who find the previous ways of working with audio in vvvv limiting.

What did attendees of the workshop learn?

  • How to play back, generate and filter audio in multiple channels.
  • How to work with VST synths and effects
  • Basic audio synthesis
  • How to transform data into audio

 

Sune Petersen

Artist, Creative Coder, Designer, Educator, Performer, Software Developer, Technologist

sunep.net

Sunes artistic practice mainly evolves around generative video performance and playful performative installations, usually investigating the noisy behavior of chaotic systems. He has been active in this field since 1997 and is constantly exploring the technology for new possibilities.

With a background in science, having studied both physics and computer engineering, in combination with a creative approach to technology, he has opened up for commercial work, for instance in museums where he creates interactive installations using complex projections and multiple channels of audio to mediate them.

Having been on the forefront in the creative use of technology, Sune has been teaching in different contexts which includes institutions all across Europe and an extensive period at Aalborg University.

Sune has used vvvv as his main tool since 2006.

Felipe Sanchez

Performer, Sound Artist

felipesanchezluna.com

As a sound artist, sound designer and programmer, Felipe aims at understanding and explaining his surroundings through audio as he creates generative and interactive systems, combining innovative technology with natural laws of sound.

After his studies in Audiovisual Media (B.E.) he worked 5 years for an audio agency before moving to Berlin and complete Sound Studies (M.A.) at the Art University. He founded kling klang klong, a studio for immersive sound, music and technology for exhibition spaces, films, videos, interactive installations, performing arts and business.