Posts Tagged ‘electronic music’
New 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)…
Read MoreNew Synth Jam
There’s a new OMI Synth Jam recording up here. Thanks to Mark for recording the sessions and uploading them! If you are interested in finding out about Synth Jams *before* they happen, hit the Subscribe tab and drop your email. You will only be alerted when new content is created or when a new event…
Read MorePractice
This will be a quick post about my recent practice making electronic and computer music. My creative process has always been… complicated. A contributing factor may be that I rarely reuse compositional systems or take on projects that closely resemble previous ones. I have diverse and varied interests so there’s always something pulling me away…
Read MoreSuperCollider, 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…
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