About
Pongulation is a musical game of pong in which the movement of the ball increments the playback of a score. The piece's waveforms are traced as oscillograms in real-time and act as graphic elements of the game. Sound is panned in quad according to ball position. Players can choose how quickly the piece progresses by choosing whether or not to bounce the ball off their paddles; if the ball hits a paddle, the score is incremented. Pongulation was realized with Javscript and OpenGL in Max/MSP/Jitter.
Pongulation has been performed at the Spring 2006 CalArts ESP Concert, the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, and during 2008 at UCSD's "The Loft".