Audio Reactive

Reaper and TouchDesigner are basically ready to communicate with each other out of the box, but many people don't realize how easy this is to setup. This video + file are geared for new TD users coming from the DAW Reaper.

In this TouchDesigner tutorial we look at how we can use audio data and CHOPs to manipulate a wide variety of sketches. This also works with the audiodevicein. As I quickly touch upon in the video - the input can be anything, not just extracted audio data.

Getting that analog look in your content can be hard when you're working in digital media.

"Membrane is a digital artwork that merges audio-visual performance with installation art. Three-dimensional, volumetric creations hover between the performers, caught in a haze of rising smoke and data-reactive lighting.

This whimsical and powerful installation featured traditional Japanese origami and TouchDesigner-driven LED. Atsushi Kobayashi, Joe Ohara and Kenta Umeda collaborated with a grand master of origami from Manazuru, Japan to create this perfectly executed audio-reactive installation.

Captured Atmospheres: interactions between light, smoke and matter is an ephemeral and yet very physical experience that posits atmosphere as instrument.

Nice to see Nobutaka Kitahara's beautiful abstract meanderings selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick! Reaction-Diffusion is a program of complete real-time generation that reacts to sound in TouchDesigner. Music: Sk'p - Astravel

Intermedia: Using or involving several media simultaneously; multimedia. Origin: 1960's (Dictionary.com) An Intermedia student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Lukasz has been using TouchDesigner for just under a year and in that time has created an intriguing and investigative body of work.

Kinetisphere, an interactive installation designed and built by San Francisco-based creative engineering studio, Bot & Dolly to celebrate the launch of Google’s Nexus Q seemed to steal the show at the recent Google I/O 2012.