Project 1: Transcoding and Biopattern Remix

For my first project I decided to focus on the predator and prey relationship between the grizzly bear and the elk. I decided to use Max 7 for this project. I made a patch that takes a sound and video of both the elk and grizzly bear. In order to replicate or remix the relationship between them I made it so that when the bear sound gets loud the elk sound will get quiet and the video of the bear will become stronger and the video of the elk will fade out. When the bear is quiet and the elk is loud the elk's video will become more prominent. Interestingly the elk appears in the outline of the bear which looks nice. There are also a couple of video effects that can be turned on, but I personally don't like them too much.

Patch without the video effects on

Patch with the video effects on

Output with the video effects

Output without the video effects

Output without the video effects

Here is the patch code, you can copy and paste this into Max 7 MSP.

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-----------end_max5_patcher-----------

</code></pre>

Bear video source

Elk video source