The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch
Background information: Accuracy not guaranteed. Get Audacity and play! http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Correction: it is the “Basilar” membrane, which is what I say, but somehow between recording the script and actually drawing the stuff I got confused and thought I just pronounced my Vs poorly. Always sad to have such a simple and glaring error in something I put hundreds of hours of work into, but a “Vasilar” membrane can be the kind that a Vi draws to explain Viola Vibrations, I guess! Making up new words is just so prolightfully awstastic.
Props to my Bro for excellent and creative swing pushing, and to my Mamma for filming it.
Extra special thanks to my generous donators, without whom I would not have been able to create this video. Because of your support, I have the equipment, time, and take-out Thai food necessary for doing stuff like this.
Audio visual synthesis experiments
Realtime visual system for the album ‘Martes’ by Murcof.
Featured tracks: Mir, Memoria, Maiz & Mo.
This project explores the possibility of synesthesia in the format of audiovisual performance. The audio triggers the mechanism of lines that flows according to the frequency spectrum.
Made with TouchDesigner
For better quality please download the movie.
merma.tv
derivative.ca
murcof.com
Just to show the shape I used in the previous clip, with a (massive) track from Alva Noto, “R-re-repeat (+i-sound)”.
As you can notice, it’s asymmetrical: left and right audio channels. I love things that appear to be similar, but are not.
Experimental looping: Donut™ has an appointment with Thich Nhat Hanh
We reported about the Donut looper a couple of days ago and now the Strange Agency has released a new inspiring video using the Donut:
Donut™ lets you record loops in two dimensions.
You can use it like a phrase looper, by recording horizontally while using the step controls to step through vertical recording position. You can use it as a realtime processor by using ThruRecord mode. You can record and playback at completely differently speeds. You can even record backwards! You can record and playback diagonally across the Donut™ surface, creating glitchy staccato sounds. You can record and playback with multiple heads, recording or playing multiple positions at once. You can spread the heads vertically to access different portions of the Donut™, or you can spread them horizontally to create an echo effect.
Imagine two dimensional time! Now on the App Store.
itunes.apple.com/app/donut/id451057730?mt=8
Donut lets you record loops in two dimensions
Here’s a new interesting concept for those of you who like to manipulate loops – as of course we all do 😉
You can use it like a phrase looper, by recording horizontally while using the step controls to step through vertical recording position. You can use it as a realtime processor by using ThruRecord mode. You can record and playback at completely differently speeds. You can even record backwards! You can record and playback diagonally across the Donut™ surface, creating glitchy staccato sounds. You can record and playback with multiple heads, recording or playing multiple positions at once. You can spread the heads vertically to access different portions of the Donut™, or you can spread them horizontally to create an echo effect.
Imagine two dimensional time!
Arduino SpeakJet Module Prototype
This is an Arduino driving a SpeakJet chip to produce allophones and weird synth sounds. It works on an algorithm coded in Arduino, which is basically a sequence with a variable, the slide potentiometer position amount, which makes the sound change. The rythm and velocity must be changed into the code.
It has an LCD to display the amount of the slide potentiometer. It says “Voice Pitch” but it could be anything. The first slide potentiometer is the volume.
Based on the sequence you can produce robot voices. The easy way should be to add another chip which translates text into sound.
Wet Dream War Machine – cave electro :-)
Noise Comedy in a Cave. Head Mounted Spring Reverb Cajon with electronics. September 2009, Hyogo, Japan.
The Balloon Synth
One day we had this idea of trying to turn the annoying noises of a child’s ballooon into music, by doing the right treatment.
We captured many samples, making all sorts of noises, extracting the air, hitting, rubbing. And then we edited it into a beat, a bassline and a melody, with the right processing tools.
Keeping up with our great hero, the late John Cage, we always want to remind everyone that everything and everyone has music inside. You just gotta know how to bring it out!
A special thanks to our friends from Celemony, we couldn’t have done this without Melodyne.
Get to know the Mau5Bot Sequencer
Created for fun by our game team!
www.floathybrid.com
The Radioactive Orchestra Making Music With Radiation
This is a project with the goal to make radiation more understandable. By translating the isotopes different energy levels to sound frequences we can ad another sense to grasp nuclear physics.
At http://www.nuclear.kth.se/radioactiveorchestra/ you can make your own music!
Late night improvisation on the Cocostuber 2
The cocostuber is, simply, two state variable filters and two voltage controlled 8bit samplers. the unique or special aspect to the design is that the frequency of each sampler is “divided” into a different part of the circuit into 16 octaves (which follow the tuning), available as general modulators for use on any of the four “modules” of the circuit. a total of 32 tunable DC and audio range digital signals.
On a typical Cocostuber these are “nodes” to connect through your hands or alligator clips or whatever. since the Grass Stimulator had lotsof rotary switches, i decided to keep with that vibe, and put every single octave division onto rotary switches. all of the possible patches can be either obtained through the switches or they can be split and multed via banana jacks on the facepanel.
In this video:
This time I have connected the Serge to the cocostuber and the cocostuber is sending the pulses and some cv to the Serge. They talk nicely. Again this is a real time recording straight to a stereo track with no edits.
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