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jonathan ewald : 6 string bass, MC202, radio, effects, knife, alligator clips recorded, edited and mastered at PurposeDriven Research Studios, Madison, WI from October 2012 to February 2013...

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, Boyd Nutting and Jeff Campbell, recorded May 16, 2013, Niles, MI. Includes audio material from PLATO, No. 234, ?Other Atmospheres? (David and Boyd, recorded September 9, 1990, IU South Bend)....

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, Boyd Nutting and Jeff Campbell, recorded May 16, 2013, Niles, MI....

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, Boyd Nutting and Jeff Campbell, recorded May 16, 2013, Niles, MI. Includes audio material from PLATO, No. 91a, ?Unauthorized Interpolations, part 1? (David, Boyd and Phil Ray, recorded November 20, 1988, IU South Bend)....

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton, Boyd Nutting and Jeff Campbell, recorded May 16, 2013, Niles, MI. Includes audio material from PLATO, No. 102, ?December Rain? (David, Boyd and Phil Ray, recorded December 22, 1988, IU South Bend)....

After several years away from live performance, Darrell Burgan of Palancar had a wild hair and decided to put together a live set, just for the fun of it. This recording is the unedited result of that live set. Performed live on StillStream.com on Rebekkah Hilgraves' excellent program At Water's Edge, you hear in this recording exactly what the audience heard that night, warts and all....

This is a re-release of an album I had previously released commercially in 2005 as a limited-run set of CDs available through Blue Water Records. As the years have passed, and with the demise of BWR, I felt it appropriate to re-release the album, this time under a public domain license. Feel free to do whatever you want with this material, with my full blessing.This album represents a cross-section of internet radio concerts I performed during the second half of 2004 and early 2005. All recordin...

This is a re-release of an album I had previously released commercially in 2007 on Blue Water Records. As the years have passed, and with the demise of BWR, I felt it appropriate to re-release the album, this time under a public domain license. Feel free to do whatever you want with this material, with my full blessing.This album contains excerpts from various "Ambient Train Wrecks" that I performed on StillStream.com in 2007. All recordings are exactly as the audience heard, warts and all.I hop...

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Arturia has released Oberheim SEM V 1.1.6 and Wurlitzer-V 1.0.5, the latest updates to its software recreations of the classic Oberheim Synthesizer Expander Module and Wurlitzer EP 200A electric piano. These free updates bring performance, stability, and MIDI improvements to Oberheim … Continue reading →

AIR Music Technology has expanded their virtual instrument offerings with Vacuum Pro Polyphonic Analog Tube Synthesizer and Loom Modular Additive Synthesizer: Vacuum Pro is a polyphonic ‘analog tube’ synthesizer. Loom is a new modular additive synthesizer. Here are the details.  Vacuum … Continue reading →

Can a metronome be something to get excited about? That’s the question raised by this reader review of Metronomics HD - a ‘ridiculously flexible rhythm monster’, created by John Nastos for Mac, iOS, and Android. Metronics HD Review In Metronomics, the basic … Continue reading →

Ivory tower, let down your hair.

Make no mistake. The slightly-impossible-to-pronounce acronym CCRMA (“karma”), standing for the not-terribly-sexy “Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics,” is one of the world’s hotbeds for innovation in electronic music. From the lowest-level DSP code to the craziest live performances, this northern California research center nesting at Stanford is where a lot is going on. So, when they put on a concert, this isn’t just another dry exposition of “tape” pieces, academics scratching their chins and trying not to nod off. (Trust me: I’ve … on occasion darned nearly rubbed my chin raw in that scene.)

No, this is a sampling of the state of the art in live music. CCRMA is currently hosting Robert Henke aka Monolake; it’s the school where Holly Herndon is finishing her studies while simultaneously upending the dance music scene, it’s a place where people learn the nitty gritty of sound and then re-imagine how to play with laptops.

And it’s also where another musician is doing extraordinary work – CDM contributor Gina Collecchia. Naturally, we asked Gina to give us a peek so we could live vicariously through her. It’s striking to see that the technologies here run the gamut from simple transducers to vivid generative software structures. People aren’t really so concerned about whether they’re working in low or high fidelity, tens of thousands of lines of code or old-fashioned mic technique; its on to the sound.

And Herr Monolake has been kind enough to let us share ten minutes of that live performance. I heard this duo in Berlin, and it’s stunning in person, but you can get a feel for Robert working live even in the stream. See also Tarik Barri talking about how he does visuals and works with Jitter, at top, courtesy the fine folks of Cycling ’74. Have a listen, have a look, and then get your Google ready for all the artists Gina scopes out below. -PK

Every year, Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) puts on Modulations, a concert showcasing some of the best music that comes out of the CCRMA community.

The night was rich with electronic music both danceable and cerebral, and gorgeous visuals were supplied by Mary Franck and Tarik Barri. Visiting professor Robert Henke headlined the event this year, playing under his moniker monolake, with long-time collaborator Tarik Barri manipulating visuals live. Henke is teaching a class at Stanford on composition called “Sound, Structure, and Machines“, while Barri is working with Atoms for Peace.

Carr Wilkerson has put on Modulations since its first year at CCRMA in 2007. The first Modulations was actually in New Orleans and a concert for electronic musicians at Tulane University.

Photo from the 2005 Modulations in New Orleans, LA. Source: Carr Wilkerson

The vision for Modulations at CCRMA was similar: break out of the ivory tower of academia, and connect with the community at large. CCRMA holds many concerts throughout the year, open to the public and usually well-attended, but always on campus either at the program’s building (which, to be fair, is pretty killer) or at the new Bing Auditorium. Modulations is the only event thrown by CCRMA in San Francisco, a city whose music technology community is rapidly growing in many directions.

This was the first year that Modulations ran for 2 nights, April 6 and 7 at Broadway Studios in North Beach, San Francisco. Previously it was held at CELLspace in the Mission District, as well as the Compound and SOMArts. CELLspace recently closed its doors but will reopen as Inner Mission SF.

Both Saturday and Sunday were structured to flow from more ambient, avant-garde computer music to modern live electronica. Kurt James Werner’s piece “First Cyclical Redundancy Check” explored glitches both visual and auditory. He used a technique I call “meta-Jittering” to produce his visual effects, using Jitter functions on the Max patch and MATLAB script GUIs themselves.

Kurt James Werner plays his MATLAB + Max/MSP + Jitter creation. Source: Gina Collecchia

He played on a home-brewed circuit bent Yamaha PSS-270 with some samples from his 2012 album Schism Method.

RVNG artist and PhD candidate Holly Herndon performed with a huge range of live vocal processing techniques for her set, featuring works from her new album, Movement.

Holly Herndon performs with live vocals at Modulations.

Luke Dahl played a live set alongside industrial animations by Mary Franck.

monolake closed the night both Saturday and Sunday, performing Ghosts. He played a large part in prescribing the speaker configuration at Modulations, featuring a large, 4-channel Meyer sound system for the front of house, an 8.6-channel circular configuration of speakers hanging above the stage (adding spatialization via Ambisonics), and 2 monitors on stage. He used an iPad running Lemur and 2 Doepfer MIDI faders to perform Ghosts live.

Downstairs, student projects from the CCRMA class Music 250B were installed throughout the room. These installations were experiments in reverberation, many using transducers to create amplifiers out of the unexpected.

A phone was wired up to a sink to route sound.

Transducers on metal flowers create unique timbres.

Jeffrey Rowell’s “pendulum guitar” magnetically induced amplitude modulation.

“Room in a room” by Romain Michon suspended springs in a hand-welded cart and processed the signal with a Raspberry Pi.

Other artists who presented were Jennifer Hsu, Locky, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Mike Gao, Myles Borins, Tim O’Brien, Eoin Callery, Colin Sullivan, Alexandra Hay, and Luke Iannini. SF-based artists Wobbly and Sutekh played at Modulations in 2011. Christina Chatfield and Tarik Barri headlined in 2012.

Robert Henke performs his new work Stanford Dust on May 23 and 24 in Bing Studio on campus, and again with his Sound, Structure, and Machines class at the CCRMA Spring Concert on May 28, at the same venue. Tickets: May 23 ($10), May 24 ($10), May 28 (FREE).

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/
http://ginacollecchia.com/

Remember all those live gigs I did March? Well, now you can get a taste of how much it Hertz to hear what I do live on my latest release. This is live improvised challenging music that I am quite proud to have released by the suRRism-Phonoethics nOtlabel. Read more about the album and get yourself a free copy hot off the press (paint is still wet) from the download page at http://surrism.phonoethics.com...

Music systems like arranging, notes and tunings are the earliest tools we have for controlling timbre. About 20 years ago, it occurred to me that one day, there would be new ways to control timbre without the need for traditional music systems.So, I started developing some early models using various types of synthesizers that didn't work too well due to the limitations of MIDI and low powered machines. A few years ago, I was able to resolve these limitations using USB, Softsynths and fast comput...

Hey, Southern California readers: Synth-maker Novation is hosting a free event tomorrow night (May 18) at the Musicians’ Institute in Hollywood, featuring live electronic performances and their latest gear. LA-based DJs and producers on the bill include Daedelus, Thavius Beck, … Continue reading →

Standuino π [pi] synced with frauAngelico + microGranny from standuino on Vimeo.

Once the stuff of noise art oddity — isolated electronic experiments staying mostly on the test table — the DIY instrument is starting to find friends and form ensembles. And so it is that Czech instrument design mad scientists Standuino have assembled a clever little suite of open boards, happily chirping and glitching and droning together in musical harmony.

So, before we start delving into the esoteric number theory of the new “π” drone synth, behold as their three creations play together in the video at top. There’s even sync. And a groove. An exceptionally odd groove, but a groove nonetheless. This is what KORG’s Volcas are like in a really strange alternate universe. (In that universe, KORG doesn’t worry about exposing raw circuit boards on the outside of the case. And maybe everyone wears their underwear on the outside of their pants, like superheroes.)

Back to π, though. It has a manifesto worthy of the illuminati. And it makes sounds that resemble someone on the hidden Rebel base tuning in their radar. Or maybe of a rave with the Borg. (Yes, I’m mixing Trek and Wars. Blame J.J. Abrams and Barack Obama.)

Here’s what it sounds like:

I especially love the handmade carry case. This is something that is missing in a lot of commercial products.

Now, who’d like a nice slice of pi?

π is infinite transcendental number. It represents circle – the symbol of unity, universe and spirit. The limited edition of this very special instrument is mysterious as π itself. It gives you infinite ground to explore. You can`t get total control of it. You rather have a partner that can find your needs. There are 3 different randomizers to get deep into its sound possibilities and patchable clock sequencer. It is field for exploration in the mathematical world of sounds … and circles.

Lost? Okay, they also share these stats:

several oscillators, wavetables and synthesis types
settings accessed by randomizers
4 presets
patchable clock sequencer
internal clock or MIDI clock divider
MIDI input
UV leds
numbered limited edition

As I understand it, there’s lots of Arduino magic powering all the variants of their boards. And then they start mixing and matching clever and weird interface conventions to make instruments that are unpredictable, unstable state machines that tread a line between tuning in sounds and creating musical surprise. But the results are clever. More on the experiments with my own soon.

Enjoy:

http://www.standuino.eu/musical-instruments/pi/