Sound spatialization with particle systems

The author describes recent research in the use of particle systems for sound spatialization. A MaxMSP/Jitter patch is presented that maps the spatial trajectories of the indi-vidual particles in a particle system to the spatial move-ment of individual granular voices in a simple granular sampling patch. The ability to model the spatial trajecto-ries of natural phenomena is also explored, as are applica-tions outside granular sampling. 1