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Gesturing the UPIC Instrument  

The goal of this one-day symposium in 2002, was to establish a structure of collaboration between institutions, musicians and industrial partners for the development of UPIX, a freeware project based on Iannis Xenakis' UPIC. UPIX consists of 3 core modules running in real-time (see figure below): a graphical interface, a correlation system (mappings) and a synthesis engine. The main challenge of the UPIX project is the design of a central mixer for collaborative music using the macrostructure formalism of UPIC. Discussions focused on new solutions for the 3 core modules of UPIX to reach the following objectives:

  
- Allow different types of inputs to define arcs: architect table (historical input device for UPIC), controllers, motion capture sensors and sound samples.
- Provide a user-friendly graphical interface to visualize, transform and mix UPIX inputs.
- Use UPIX in real-time for music composition (historical use of UPIC), and live performance.
- Develop UPIX with appropriate freeware platforms
and tools.		  
 

  Electron Salon
  Woodstockhausen
  Transplant:France
  Sounds French
  Meeting Messiaen
  GUI Symposium
   

 

RESOURCES
  
 
You may download the latest version of the UPIX program and source code here:

Executable (Mac OS X)

Sources

If you have questions about the source code, you may join the UPIC Dev Mailing List:
upic-subscribe@la-kitchen.net

(Note: conversation on the mailing list is typically in French)


For more information about this and future symposiums, contact:

Véronique Larcher
vero@elsaproductions.com 		 
     


   "As far as consistency of thought is concerned, I prefer inconsistency."  
 
-- John Cage