In the past months I’ve had the opportunity to talk about the software behind Elsewhere Sound Space from two different angles in interviews now up on YouTube.

For TouchDesigner InSession with Derivative founder Greg Hermanovic, technical director Markus Heckmann, and director of community Isabelle Rousset, I talked about the creative process of building the dozens of shots and interactive music videos that went into the show.

It’s always fun to talk with the Derivative folks — while as the creators they know the software better than anyone, they retain an intense, almost childlike curiosity about the ways in which their program is used. It didn’t hurt that they’re big fans of the show.

With the Interactive and Immersive HQ’s boss Elburz Sorkhabi, the conversation was focused on the use of Python in TouchDesigner to enable a modular architecture — a design tenet that was critical to keeping the growth of the show platform creative and loose, even when making new show elements in the moments before we went live.

Burz and I disagree about some of the methods we discuss in this interview so it might be interesting for some viewers to hear a debate over architectural style for a framework like TD.