Mark Zadel: "Different Strokes and the d_verse project"

Mark Zadel is a Doctoral student in the Music Technology Area of the Schulich School of Music, McGill University.

Different Strokes is an interactive software interface for solo computer music performance.  It has been recently used in the context of the d_verse project, a series of interdisciplinary performance and video works.  This application of Different Strokes has presented a number of challenges and has required the development of additional features, such as real-time granulation, multi-channel spatialization, and mappings to synthesis parameters.  This paper describes these updates and the lessons learned while adapting the software for use in the d_verse project.