Verbose

Pure Data Noisebox for sound improvisation.

For a long time, I have struggled with a starting point for an improvisational Pure Data patch loaded on a Raspberry Pi. Various attempts were made in the early-mid 2010s, mostly based on vocal processing, or as the PiParty collab with Charles Martin.

A breakthrough concept was that a box puts out sound as soon as connected to power, there is no need to dial in an initial state.

Identified initial stages of development:

• Sound produced on launch.
• Interesting sound produced on launch.
• Modifiable sound produced on launch.
• Cutover to live input.

Hardware

Raspberry Pi 4B PiSound

Operating System

Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)

Installation

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paulduchesne/verbose/refs/heads/main/install.sh | bash

VNC

sudo apt -y install tigervnc-standalone-server
sudo nano /etc/tigervnc/vncserver-config-mandatory # add $localhost = "no";
tigervncpasswd # set pass
tigervncserver

Desktop can be accessed at raspbery-pi-ip:5901. Note that tigervncserver needs to be run every time after boot.

Autostart

The easiest way to autostart is by adding @reboot ~/verbose/run.sh to crontab -e.

License

Creative Commons Zero