Posts by Scott Petersen
SuperCollider, Algorithms that Sound, Practicum
As I stare at the beginning of another Summer, this time with a toddler and a pandemic both raging nearby, I have set a few goals which I’m attempting to line up so they inform and help fulfill each other. First, don’t get COVID 19. Second, the rest. Here’s some of it. I will create…
Read MoreColeoptera LC
Performed @ CCAM May 2, 2019 This live performance was dedicated to the memory of composer Allan Schindler and represents an organic eventualization of the impact Allan has had on my life and music. Coleoptera LC is the live-coding performance of a feedback-based synthesis instrument, coded in the SuperCollider programming language [see below], named Coleoptera.…
Read MoreColeoptera A.S. in Memoriam Allan Schindler
__ First performed November 7, 2018, Hatch Recital Hall, Rochester NY ‘Coleoptera A.S.’ is a 60″ fixed-media realization of a feedback-based synthesis instrument, coded in the SuperCollider programming language, named Coleoptera. Every sound in the piece was generated from the same nine lines of code by varying the input parameters to each new incarnation of…
Read MoreWebdev, fix thine own functions.php
Okay – 1) I’m no webdev and 2) the title is a bad attempt to change the old “physician, heal thyself!” to fit my purposes. Mea culpa. Mea máxima culpa. Still, here I am with a working login to my wordpress install, previously unreachable. Here’s the story nice and short because zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Read MoreNew Beginnings
It’s been so long since I’ve posted here or updated this site I almost forgot how the WP back-end works, yikes! I hereby acknowledge I have been remiss and offer a formal mea culpa. I have projects and experiments on my desk that warrant a post or three, some musical discoveries, and lots of news…
Read MoreAudio Fun with Inductor Coils
As Ethan and I await the arrival of components necessary to embark on our spring reverberation tests, we pass the time by winding inductor coils and playing with magnetic fields.
Read MoreFun with the Wien Bridge Oscillator
To the fledgling electronics enthusiast who has just enough knowledge of electronic music theory to be dangerous, it makes sense that the simplest tone, the sine tone, should be the simplest/easiest to construct in the analog electronics domain. Of course, this is not the case. While geometrically simple to describe, the sine tone is not…
Read MoreDIY Workshop Madness
I am really excited to be teaching a series of open source software and hardware workshops this year at Yale as part of a new initiative we started called the Open Music Initiative. The aim of the initiative is to indoctrinat… er, expose faculty and students to the merits of FLOSS and open source hardware via workshops wherein…
Read MoreModular Synth Components
Last night El MuCo (The Mutagenic Cooptoraptors) accomplished a feat heretofore unimaginable: three circuit projects were undertaken and three projects were completed successfully. While you may be tempted to think that, with the assistance of a book (Ray Wilson’s Analog Synthesizers) and the vast power of the internet this is not a big deal, you…
Read MoreMusic V: Back to the Future
In 1969 Max Mathews published The Technology of Computer Music in which he provides a primer to digital sound and synthesis, describes the function of a computer music program, and provides a manual to the language he was describing, namely MUSIC V. It was to be the last MUSIC-N language he would write, and was…
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