This is my first project using the powerful SuperCollider audio-programming language. It’s the sonification of a game of Go I played with a friend of mine (it works with any recorded match). 
Stones of different colour are represented by different synths and (in this case pentatonic) scales.
The synth for the black stones is based on the first four partials of an oscillating rod described in Andy Farnell’s highly recommended book “Designing Sound”, that for the white ones on a bell patch from Nick Collins’ great SC tutorial. 
Pitch and pan are determined by the distance of the last-set stone from the center of the board, amount of reverb and amplitude by the number of liberties of the stone and connections to stones of the same colour respectively.
When stones are captured, this activates the third synth (some noise), whose duration and amplitude are controlled by the number of captured stones.
I also added some random variation of rhythm to represent the changing time between moves.

It would be nice not to need an additional array for the captured stones and to be able to enter the moves via a GUI rather than having to tediously enter them into arrays but both are way beyond my possibilities at the moment.

If you like this (also if not) please give me some feedback!
Interested in the code? Just send me your email address and I’ll mail it to you for free use.

Enjoy!


Sonification of Go

If you would like a download of the masive 2.5 hour long Praying Through The Psalms album message me and I can send it your way! 

DJ Relish is all about experimentation. 
To find, record, create, re-create, demolish, improvise, internalize, and tweak sounds. 
(All sounds processed through or altered in some way by a Boss SP 303 Sampler.) 
To listen. 
To enhance prayer.
To make sounds that promote Theological and Philosophical thinking. 
Feel free to listen, download, and/or use any of my material for your own experiments in music. 
My music is also featured in this on going collaboration:  http://soundcloud.com/free-variety-theatre/sets/techneurotic-woman
As well as here: http://fagashrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of-fag-ash-volume-2
or here:
http://fagashrecords.bandcamp.com/track/they-are-here-my-left-ear-is-numb-2

~Noise Connoisseur 2015~

I am a composer, mainly working with data sonification and urban soundscapes.

Sonification of Go

Pe Ti