For my psychogeographic maps of New York City, I have decided to create audio maps. While doing these rides, I became aware of my different speeds, durations, and locations throughout my travels, and I wanted to provide myself a tool so that I (as well as others) could experience the ride in a condensed amount of time but still be made aware of these characteristics of the ride.
I built a patch in Max MSP which uses the GPS data I have been collecting during these rides. Making use of the latitude, longitude, elevation, speed, and duration, I created a midi output engine which expresses these values in sound. I consider my various latitude and longitude positions (or intersecting points) as chords, and I am using the speed at which I was moving and the length of time I was in an area of space to affect how quickly the notes (or chords of latitude/longitude) are played and how long the notes are held.
Here is a sample of my ninth dérive using this sound psychogeography Max MSP patch:
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Here is an image of what the presentation mode of the Max MSP patch looks like that also shows the visualization that I made which illustrates each point as it played.
