Terraforms - Ambisonic Live Code Experiments at EMPAC

In December, I had 3 days at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY where I used their 5th-order (36 channel) ambisonic array to try some granular processing and spatial techniques.

Having never used a higher order ambisonic system, I decided to build some sound sculptures with Csound abstractions I already had set up. I spent some time adapting Steven Yi’s Csound live code to Terraforms - an ongoing project that I started in Tidal Cycles but was limited with when it came to ambisonics.

Here, I set up live code in Csound with reactive projections using the JS-based Hydra. I spent part of the last day documenting some of the sounds and visuals.