Algorithmic Photography
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Cryptic Glasgow-Cove Park Residency
Documentation

Intro
March 2019, I spent the whole month working in Scotland. The Cove-Park and Glasgow residency, organized by Cryptic and CMMAS in conjunction with the British Council, has been fruitful and very important in my artistic career. I can say that it marked a new starting point in my artistic career. First, what was this residency about? The month-long residency: Three weeks of intense work at Cove-Park on my art project and one week in Glasgow to exchange experiences with the art community in this city.
In this document, I will make a description of the work done during this residency, then I will make a description of the creative process and finally I will give my conclusions and thanks.
Learn more about Cryptic-Glasgow Producers here: http://www.cryptic.org.uk/
Work done in Cove-Park
My project. Description, Progress and Results.
During my residency in Cove-Park I worked on my project "Gestures of Light". Broadly speaking: this project seeks the convergence between four disciplines: musical composition, experimental photography, real-time visuals, and music performance. Next, I will describe the work done during three weeks.
Experimental photography
During my three-week residency at Cove-Park I took a series of 53 photographs.
The creative process was as follows:
1. The photos were taken inside Cove-Park.

2. I worked on developing and debugging the algorithm to process the images to obtain new images.

3. I created the series of 53 photographs by processing the images taken at Cove-Park using the algorithm. Here I show in small format the final work: the series of 53 photographs created at Cove-Park.
The music
During the three weeks of residence at Cove-Park I composed, 40 minutes of original music from scratch.
The instruments used were:
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Prophet Rev2 synthesizer with keyboard
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My modular synthesizer
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0-coast
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FireFace 800 Audio Interface
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Genelec 30-B Speakers
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Recording in Protools 12.
The creative process was as follows:
1. Realization of a patch in the modular synthesizer, the 0-coast and the Prophet (creation of new sounds and auto-generative musical sequences).
2. Improvising (seeing the mountains)
3. Recording
This sequence of steps was repeated several times in the same order until the stereo recording was completed. A sample of the recorded work is given below. Due to the fact that this work will be published in a disc soon, it is not possible to publish in this site the complete work.
The video
During my three-week residency at Cove-Park, I conducted experiments in order to make the convergence between photos and music in a video. This work is in process, however, below is a sample of the progress made during the residency.
The tools used were:
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Max-MSP-Jitter 8
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Alienware Computer
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 GPU
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Sound interface: Native Instruments 6