Wire a source, a time, a shape and a destination. Any wiring that can work is an idea.
What can Echo Garden do in a set?
Echo Garden is a set of parts that can be wired together in umptillion ways. This page lets you try those wirings before they're built on stage. Every idea has 4 parts.
1. Source: what starts it
The plant's notes, about 2 a second.
How busy the plant's signal is, fast or slow.
The arm touching the plant, or which leaf it's on.
How close a performer stands, and how much they move.
A pose the computer learned during the show.
A pad on the mixer: duck, clear or stop.
2. Time: when it happens
As the plant plays it.
As a chance that rises and falls.
Only while something is held, like a touch.
Stepping through a written phrase.
As a burst of 2 to 4 hits.
3. Shape: what it changes
Which note from a set, how loud, how long a phrase runs.
How much echo comes back, how much goes in, how long the loop is.
Where the light falls, and how much effect.
4. Destination: where it ends up
Notes in the Ableton set.
The tape loop.
Light projected on the plant and the performer.
Effect controls in the set.
Some wirings to try
Each part is marked built, planned or sketch. "Surprise me" picks a wiring that can work. "Walk the space" steps through all of them.
learned shape
pads
Drag the performer up and down to come nearer, shake to move. Arm contact is simulated and untested on the rig.
Timing
raw source played
on the grid, played
on the grid, raw
Loop
feedback
send
loop time
Sound starts on a click.
Rig read-out what this wiring would send right now