Posts Tagged ‘electronic music’
Vyzer 3:2
Vyzer 3:2 is a live electronic improvisation that explores spectral spaces within a loosely defined structural framework where the evolving sonic experience is created through the juxtaposition of noise and tone, rhythm and pulse (and pulselessness.)
Read MoreWhite Noise Sample-and-Hold my Beer Part II: Summer Breeze Makes me Feel Fried
This is part II of a two-part post detailing one of my Summer projects: The YASH Redux. YASH Redux is a sample-and-hold circuit driven by white noise with portamento and a test oscillator for fine-tuning and troubleshooting.
Read MoreWhite Noise Sample-and-Hold My Beer: Part I
Dedication: This post is dedicated to the memory of Ray Wilson, author and DIY Synth genius who passed away 10 years ago on July 21st, 2016. TLDR; i started this post midway through a surprisingly challenging project that caused a dark night of the soul. It worked out okay. Still, the flow/tone may reflect this.…
Read MoreNew Article: Pro Audio on Linux
Like many of you, I keep an eye on r/linuxaudio for announcements, software updates, and generally to try to help people new to Linux audio when I can. To that end, I took a few hours and put together an introduction to pro audio on Linux here. I decided to host it on GitHub rather…
Read MoreTwo SuperCollider FM Synthesis Projects
I just posted my second SuperCollider FM Synthesis project to GitHub, a pedagogical extension of a great DX7 “clone” for the SuperCollider language. The project allows users to enter DX7 presets, by number, and generate usable SynthDefs (SuperCollider synthesis instrument definitions) and analysis that provides insight into the nature of the instrument configuration. My previous…
Read MoreRunning A University Linux-based Audio Lab: Part 3 — Software Installation in Detail
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series I introduced Linux as a viable operating system for a university music and audio programming lab and described in some detail Linux audio configuration for low-latency audio applications. In this part I will walk through *most* of our post-install script in some detail so you have a better picture of the necessary configuration required. But first…
Read MoreState Inter State
Recorded improvisation: 19’23 Hardware Components: Scott Petersen/Ethan Bernard: Custom HEF4046BP audio feedback circuit Koma Elektronik: Field Kit FX Korg: Delay Monotron Technical description: This performance was accomplished through the slow rotation of a single potentiometer (one of six) that changed the internal feedback relationship between the three oscillators of the custom circuit. The knob was…
Read MoreRunning A University Linux-based Audio Lab: Part 1 — Overview
This is part one of a three-part series of articles describing how and why you can use Linux in your college or university’s music/audio lab. In this article I will provide a broad overview of what I do in the CS music/audio lab at Yale and why I do it.
Read Morea.periodic FBS 3b
Scott Petersen: Koma Elektronik Field Kit and Field Kit FX. Recorded improvisation. Fixed media: 06’18 a.periodic: FBS 3b explores oscillation on large and small scales, both in terms of periodicity and control signals. Feedback channels are created such that oscillatory processes inhibit, sustain, and grow in predictable ways, creating a self-mitigating form of homeostasis where…
Read MoreSculpting Gestural Space with Envelopes Part 1
Introduction Use of voltage control amplitude envelopes became standard in the 1960s after they were implemented by Moog on the evolving Moog Synthesizer (1964-1965). In the digital domain the envelope realizes its true potential as a variable function of change over time more akin to the use of lines (stochastic calculus, probability curves, ruled surface)…
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