VOSIS: Image and Video Audification Synthesizer for iPad

VOSIS: Image and Video Audification Synthesizer for iPad from Ryan McGee on Vimeo.

VOSIS is a synthesizer that uses scanned synthesis of greyscale image pixel data from photos or live video input. It is also a tool for image audification/sonification and visual music performance.

Visit imagesonification.com for more technical details.

Operation:
- Simply touch anywhere on an image to play sounds with the ADSR envelope 
- Toggle LOOP and double-tap to add a looped region 
- 6 voice plyphonly (3 touch regions and 3 looped regions) 
- Press IMG to select new image from photo library 
- Press CAM to use live video and toggle between front and rear cameras 
- PAN toggle enables stereo panning depending on horizonal image position 
- LEVEL modifies the brightness of pixels and MASK is a level bit-reduction 
- CUTOFF provides low-pass and high-pass filters 
- THRESH filter is useful to accentuate differences between image regions 
- SCAN RATE changes the ammout of time corresponding to an image region 
- BACKGROUND controls the opacity of the source image, no effect on sound 
- Double-tap the upper-right corner to show/hide the GUI 
- VIBRATO uses the accelerometer’s roll to modulate frequency 
- REVERB toggles a Lexicon emulation reverb mix and decay 
- TUNING creates major or minor chords with multiple touch voices 
- 2 finger left/right and up/down gesture control of filters anywhere on screen 
- Projector output for instant visual music performance (and no fingers in the way of images)

VOSIS = Voice of Sisyphus Image Sonification 
- Software by Ryan Michael McGee | ryanmcgee.com 
- “Voice of Sisyphus” is an artwork by George Legrady | georgelegrady.com 
- Created with ofxUI by Reza Ali | syedrezaali.com