In the spirit of the holiday season, and to show all of you our fans how much you mean to us, El MuCo is giving away this free sample pack of Jankotunes magic! Many hours of toilsome labour went into editing this massive sample pack (over 32 samples!!!) for your artistic edification and pure enjoyment. We…
Continue ReadingA couple of weeks ago I posted some audio and code examples of a software matrix mixer I made with SuperCollider. I thought a post going into some detail about feedback and how to code it may be of help to those new to the concept as a creative tool, or to using it within…
Continue ReadingKane and I recently dropped $170 at JameCo on potentiometers, switches, diodes, project boards, and more in anticipation of several MuCo projects we have been planning. The main project now after some op-amp FAIL last night (the FAIL being Mimms’s op-amp. Yes, there is a free version on the nets. No, we will not help…
Continue Readingseventeen: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…
Continue ReadingMarxist-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…
Continue ReadingWARNING: (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…
Continue ReadingIn 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…
Continue Reading[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…
Continue ReadingI 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.…
Continue Reading1. 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…
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