[silence] piano and live electronics

[Guy De Bievre]

hi alejandro,

At 07:01 PM 6/23/2006, Alejandro Rojas-Marcos wrote:
>I just thought that using a computer would be expensive and complicated,
>but maybe you are wright.

no, a computer nowadays is the least expensive and most flexible 
solution (unless you have to buy one for the project). The only thing 
is you have to make sure you have a good low latency sound card.
These project can definitely be handled with programs like MAX/MSP or 
PureData...but that is the more difficult way to go (unless you are 
very familiar with those programs.) I've done quite a lot of 
electronic processing for scored contemporary music and have always 
been able to do it with VST hosts (I'm a PC user and the VST host I 
use is audiomulch (www.audiomulch.com) - a cheap and very flexible 
program. but I'm sure you kind find similar ones for Mac.) The 
advantage of VST hosts is that you don't have to program, you just 
find a VST plug in that does the kind of effect you want (and a lot 
of those plug ins are available for free)

>I'm involved in a proyect with dancers and the idea is to amplify the sound
>of the piano and the sounds produced by the movements of the dancers. We
>are also going to use some piano pieces by John Cage. We would like to alter
>these sounds so that the results could be more intersting.

mmmh, this sounds a bit strange...do you mean the piano pieces are 
not interesting as such?

>  It's like electronically
>preparing both the piano and the dancers.
>It shouldn't be to expensive or complicated to handle.
>Thank you.

good luck,

guy