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PORTFOLIO: generic performance software and realisation of works. MaxMSP/ Salford 8 November 2013, Time...(enough).

Improvisation Perfomance: Salford 8 November 2013, Media City, Salford, 8/112013, Mike Vaughan (electronics)." CD Recording: Time Enough on CD '20 Odd Years'(Jos Zwaanenburg)

This performance software consists of a full set of wrappers for MaxMSP patches (harmonisers, panning, FFT, sampling etc.) that fit within a common input/output shell, allowing for different effects to be ‘dropped in’ to form a multi-effects patch. As all units are pre-configured to communicate with each other, little additional patchwork is required. Units are designed to imitate hardware effects units in appearance.

The software configuration allows for works to be realised quickly with a common interface. This has allowed for the live electronics component of earlier works to be implemented, for example, the 2008 comprehensive revision of Time…(enough) and the 2009 version of In Memoriam (layer 5), as well as the efficient implementation of new works such as Kiru (submitted here as a separate item) and fixed media work Salford Mix 2013, included as part of this portfolio.

The use of the patches is evidenced by the production of revised and new works within a dramatically reduced timescale. For example, the original version of Time…(enough) dates back to 1998 as a piece for flute and live electronics in the form of an array of guitar foot-pedals and multi-effects processors with live audio and MIDI recording and playback. Apart from the ‘re-composing’ of the flute part, this version has all the electronics components and processes implemented in MaxMSP. Similarity and continuity in interface design allow for easy assimilation for performance. This degree of compositional efficiency is one possible response to the common issue concerning performances which are often unique events [1].

[1] See Vaughan: Dead or Alive? Performance and Dissemination Strategies in the 21st Century (Item 2 in this REF submission).