Pressure Project 2
Posted: May 7, 2026 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »The Networked patch: Everything is Cher
- TouchDesigner
- Cher Believe Midi File
- Dial CRT TV image
- Network
I wanted to play with nostalgia for this project. I chose to use a retro television as the backdrop for my patch. The TOP in would take a video feed and apply a noise overlay and a lens distort to apply it to the CRT screen.
I also created a switch to change channels, selecting from NDI-in TOPs.
The audio portion would take any audio NDI input and play it through a Logic Pro file that would use the audio as a carrier channel for a vocoder to reshape every sound to match pitch with Cher’s Believe.
Finally for my control portion, The OSC-In feed would run through a rename CHOP and a reorder chop to switch between several filters applied to the video content and change the channel on the TV.
On the output NDI I provided the a video of the patch running and the processed audio (i.e. the audio-in feed being shared having been Cher’d). I also provided the current TV Channel parameter as a number between 0 and 5 over OSC-out.
I used the IN CHOPs and TOPs in my patch with default values to ensure that the patch ran on its own and interacted with others.
I tried to include things that reminded me of my youth. Things that I haven’t heard or seen in years, but when I did they took me right back to a nostalgic past. I didn’t get too crazy with complexity, and tried to keep it simple, self-contained, and cohesive.
In my initial imagining of this project, external users would be able to feed their content through my patch and see their content displayed on the screen, but that’s not the way it worked. They could take my screen with whatever content it was playing and incorporate it into their own patches. Likewise they could incorporate whatever audio I was taking in and hear how it sounded as Cher’s Believe.
There were a number of interesting and unexpected interactions. I especially liked the way that the effects stacked. In preparation for this pressure project, I was mainly considering how two patches might interact, but I didn’t consider what might happen when long chains of patches interacted. I was surprised by how at some point it became impossible to trace the chain of patch interactions and all that was left was just to enjoy what was there to be observed.
While each patch was interesting on its own, the combination of multiple patches was where the real magic happened.