Posts by Scott Petersen
seventeen:thirteen
seventeen:thirteen is my doctoral dissertation from the Eastman School of Music. It is a composition for fifteen players to be performed outdoors in an urban environment for 30 minutes each day for 3 days. It employs coordinated movement and sound with audio and video recording, playback, and projection. The work employs different compositional styles for…
Read MoreScott gets a Marxophone
Marxist-phone-what? Heather’s parents got me a gen-u-ayn Marxophone (a fretless zither!) for my birthday. (Thanks Jim and Karen!) Imagine my surprise when they showed up with several boxes of fantastic electronic toys to dissect, the culmination of which was this fantastic instrument. (I might add, I had never heard of nor seen one of these…
Read MoreMixer Feedback Music: 1204FX Improvisation 2
WARNING: (every good post should begin with one!) Following any of the steps below to create feedback loops with mixers can harm your gear and more detrimentally, your ears. The results are often unpredictable and almost always extremely loud. The pulse waves created by these kinds of setups and heard in the recording below are…
Read MoreLost Voices of Blasphemous Friends
In 2006 I both completed recording for, and abandoned, a sound installation for 8 speakers. The work, originally titled Voices of Blasphemous Friends was intended for installation at a festival to which I was never invited. I recently stumbled upon the recordings, mostly in a state of discombobulation, and the 5 movements/excerpts I used to…
Read MoreAnalog Ring Modulation Circuit
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc5JLWrVEQg&hl=en_US&fs=1] Above is a video and below are some pictures of a simple ring mod circuit I whipped up last night. The circuit is the classic circuit, and I’m simply running two oscillators from a hex schmidt 6-oscillator IC through the circuit as the carrier and modulator. The frequencies of the hex schmidt are being…
Read More(tiny) Nifty Codez
I realize from looking through this site that I need to start posting more code (and resulting recordings.) Part of my motivation is that SC3 (now 3.4!) never ceases to amaze me with its possibilities. One can, with a very small amount of code, achieve some incredibly intricate, beautiful sounds. The below is one example.…
Read MoreEeePC + Ubuntu 10.04 + Arduino (Mini-Tutorial-of-Sorts)
1. I’m not good at tutorial writing. This is not because I do not have the willingness or ability to write tutorials, but because I lack the patience to write tutorials. However, because I seem to have 3x the number of difficulties that everyone else does doing anything, I have started taking copious notes whilst…
Read MoreIntroducing The Little Princess!
What was once the hideous DJ Crappy Tunes (aka DJ Crappy Turntable) has been reborn as the beautiful and talented “The Little Princess!” To see/hear some of the genesis of this beautiful machine, please see our previous post. Below is the first video of The Little Princess. Here, Kane is taking her for a ride…
Read MoreStockhausen: Étude (musique concrète) 1952
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6zFDumorPg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I recently ran across this piece which I had not previously heard. It is the first piece of musique concrète by Stockhausen composed in 1952-53 at the RTF in Paris. A quote about the work by Stockhausen from an online source:** “First I recorded six sounds of variously prepared low piano strings struck with…
Read MoreLive Improvisation: The Big Room, New Haven CT, April 24 2010
This performance took place on April 24th 2010 in New Haven CT at The Big Room. Our setup consisted of a number of circuit-bent toys and original electronic instruments, hardware mixers and computers running SuperCollider programs of our own creation. All toy and other input was captured via microphone, run through the mixer, and into…
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