Posts by Scott Petersen
Pipewire and JACK on Arch Linux
This is a quick post to talk about my recent experience configuring Pipewire and JACK on Arch Linux. Now, I’m not an Arch adherent and maybe you aren’t either. That’s fine because I’ll talk about the minimal install and the packages that are required to get Pipewire and JACK working. This will not cover moving…
Read MoreIt’s Worth Learning to do it Yourself
In this post I will attempt to convince you, dear friend, to take the hard way and learn to do whatever new/onerous thing you need to learn in order to facilitate your work, rather than relying on someone else to do it for you.
Read MoreRunning A University Linux-based Audio Lab: Part 4 — Updates and Brokenness
Part 1: Hosing Down your Computers In an earlier post about setting up and maintaining a Linux audio lab I wrote: Above I mentioned that cron-apt is used to check package status (daily) and use the email packages to email package status to the system admin (me). This, however, is not configured to auto update…
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 2 — Linux Audio
“Running a Linux Audio Lab was fun, he said! You should try it, he said! He didn’t say anything about ALSA and JACK and Pulseaudio! Aaaaaah!” -Horrified individual the first time they try to get low-latency audio working in Linux with an Ubuntu base. To be clear, in Part I of this series I never…
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 Morekeraclem
Recording from the premier, 2.27.2006 Program notes for keraclem It is with some amount of difficulty that I attempt to sum up in a few words, a piece whose composition was extremely difficult for me both conceptually and technically. There are many ideas that form the conceptual base of this piece. At the highest level…
Read MoreSeven Words, Seven Worlds
Please note that the recording begins with two or so minutes of intoning as the singers process into the performance area and is very quiet. Seven Words, Seven Worlds is a piece for 12 singers that was premiered by OSSIA New Music on Oct. 25th 2008. The following are the program notes from the premier.…
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