vector audio comes of age – twitter – cdm – koan – parametric sound and fx
May 2nd, 2009 by Tim ColeWe noted with interest the post at CDM referring to what we, back in 2000, coined “vector audio” – see: Create Digital Music.
It is actually with great happiness that we saw this, and it is thanks to Twitter that it has really come into its own. Back then we had build into Koan what we called “vector audio”, namely the ability (synth) sounds and FX to be described in (XML) text format for the purposes of being sent on/shared by SMS (that was the vision, anyhow). Yes, it was just tokenised parameter values for the various FX/Synth settings, but the idea was that these values could be sent/shared in as little as 1 SMS. Admittedly, our aim was to have the Koan Interactive Audio System embedded on mobiles devices, or used as a plugin in webpages, and we did not forsee Twitter 
. See: SSEYO web archive at Wayback Machine.
We think it is fantastic that Twitter has provided a viable outlet for this kind of technique. One day we might be able to resurrect this approach in Mixtikl! But, we still have a lot to do before then.
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