seisiún

2026 · in development · performance patch for Irish traditional tunes and electronics, built in Max/MSP and Jitter

Seisiún (trans. ‘session’) is a performance patch for playing sets of Irish traditional tunes with electronics. It holds chord charts for 140 tunes. As a set plays, each chord is voiced over a drone, much as a DADGAD guitarist or bouzouki player would voice it, and passed to plucked and sustained synthesised voices, with bodhrán-style rhythm patterns and glitch textures layered around the tune.

A set arranger strings tunes together with their own tempos, forms and repeats, and an audio-reactive visual engine in Jitter follows the music. The patch has not yet been used in performance; screen recordings will be added here.