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# Other Sound Design

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Among many theatre design skills, [Nathan Leigh](/flinders-phd-research-project/appendices/research-participant-information/interviewees/nathan-leigh.md) is a composer and sound designer. In our interview, he mentioned the tools he uses: ‘Ableton, Max MSP - Max MSP is really good at … it's a really good tool to take numbers, just random numbers, and then process them in a way. So, you can take a number, assigned some rules, process it, and then it spits it back into Ableton, and Ableton plays a sample, depending on what those notes are. I came up with a data exchange protocol that converts X-Y coordinates into midi notes’. He used [MIDI](https://cecm.indiana.edu/361/midi.html) in *POV: you are an a.i. achieving consciousness* because it is a mathematically-based form of generating music and sounds.