event
Synth Design Hackathon 2023

Kek Box

A box to help you explore the latent space
MaxMSP
Ableton
Teensy Microcontroller
Touch sensor
Electret microphone
prompt
An augmented liminal space
category
Performance instrument
category
Performance instrument

Coaches & collaborators

institute
SRH Berlin university of applied sciences
Explore the Latent space - explore a new way of creating and shaping sounds. Unleash your musical creativity with the Kek Box - the AI-driven music instrument of the future = simple on the outside but complex inside! Transform your beatboxing into epic drum fills Your rooms ambient noises become full Synthloops. Create sounds out of thin air and bring your musical visions to life Or just reshape existing sound. With the power of AI at your fingertips, you can explore new soundscapes and unleash your imagination. And all this in real time. Transfer timber, rhythm and tone or synthesis new sound.
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the tech

How does it work?

The ai can be trained on different musical input datasets and extracts features out of it and tries to project given sounds back into the Domain it was trained on. The trained model is embedded in a MAX patch. From here it is free exploration - tweak the sound before it is pick up by the ai - tweak it afterwards.. Tweak it inside the ai. You can even create very nice feedback loops. Which sometimes get stable. Everything is already fully working atm. Also we mapped some effects. In the future it would be possible to move the part that's happening in MAX to a Raspberry and have an autonomous BOX
Open source code
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MaxMSP
Visual programming language for music and multimedia
Ableton
Music production program
Teensy Microcontroller
Touch sensor
A touch capacitance sensor can detect anything that is conductive
Electret microphone
Record or detect audio gain (volume) changes
About the instrument
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