Real-time audio synthesis in small packages
Using the Pure Data (Pd) graphical programming environment, it is now possible for a musician, visual artist, or hobbyist to design and realize an interactive musical instrument or other audio tool in a package small enough to wear and inexpensive enough that one could make multiple copies.  Using recently released low-power microprocessors, we can connect audio and other electrical inputs and outputs as well as  wifi or bluetooth connectivity.  The code is all open-source.  In this talk we’ll show an example and explain how it is built and programmed.

Miller Puckette is known as the creator of Max and Pure Data.  As an MIT student he won the 1979 Putnam mathematics competition, and then finished his doctorate at Harvard in 1986.  He was a founding member of the MIT Media lab, then moved to IRCAM in Paris, and is now distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego and again in residence at IRCAM.  He has also taught at Columbia University and at the Technical University of Berlin, and has won two honorary degrees, the SEAMUS award, and the 2023 Silver Lion award of the Venice Biennale Musica.

Please note: We are also hosting a special workshop on hacking Pure Data on the ESP32 microcontroller platform from May 5-7.