Goldsmiths researcher Nuno Correia has developed AudioVisual Zones, a new iPad app for audiovisual performance which will be available at the App Store soon.
AVZones is open source and work in progress, built with openFrameworks and Maximilian, and part of Goldsmiths’ Enabling Audiovisual User Interfaces research project.
It’s composed of an audio sequencer/looper with a visualizer. By default, three audiovisual columns or “zones” allow for the manipulation of three audio loops. Each zone had three XY pads for audio manipulation: pitch shift, delay and filter. There are nine sounds available per zone. The application is scalable: the number of zones, XY pads and sounds can be modified in the code.
Nuno Correia has performed using AVZones in Berlin and at London’s EAVI XIII. In a performance, only the iPad is used for audiovisuals; the visuals from the iPad are projected behind the performer, and the sound comes from the iPad as well.
The project is supported by a Marie Curie EU fellowship, and hosted by the EAVI research group in Goldsmiths Computing. The code for AVZones is available on GitHub, and the app can be sideloaded manually on an iPad using Xcode 7.