Micah Frank

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Ableton recently came to my studio and I showed off Puremagnetik’s Retro Synths. The video is on their home page this month along with an update for Retro Synths.

Samples: 64BitBreakfast: Kyma, RME, Bias Peak & OSX having domestic issues

 

WinkSound Short About Puremagnetik


In the Studio with WinkSound

Free Samples : Digital Blasphemy (The Sound of Wrongness)

What happens when you do everything wrong? Digital Blasphemy contains excerpts from an afternoon jam I had in Kyma. Raw and unedited, do what you like with it. Mistreated waveshapers, hyper-resonating pulses, harshly modulating synthetic spectrums run through overdriven compression, non-harmonic ring-modulated frequency controllers…. the list goes on. If it’s wrong, I think I did it.

I personally find it very useful to cut up some bits to make a glitchy (think Alva Noto) kit. Enjoy!

Sound Design (not music) for http://www.hendricksgin.comProduced at Nise Music, Brooklyn NYC 

Sound Design (not music) for http://www.hendricksgin.com
Produced at Nise Music, Brooklyn NYC 

New Kamoni Site Now on Bandcamp

Kamoni BandCamp Page: http://kamoni.bandcamp.com/

Sound Design for Stoli Elit
Produced at Nise Music, Brooklyn

Adapting Tectonic to ‘Organic’ Synthesis Designs

Tectonic’s Max output is now interfacing directly with a Kyma system. This has enabled me to realize the project’s full potential through various types of synthesis created organically, through the the many parameters being passed to Kyma. The initial planning of the port basically took place in this sketch.

tectonic sketch

Programming this “flowchart” in Kyma is taking place slowly day-by-day. However, most of the synthesis channels are completed. So what’s happening here? 

When Max picks up a new earthquake it sends the data to Kyma generating a new synthetic spectrum. From there, based on a parameter (like latitude) the spectrum gets resynthesized through 1 of four methods - granular resynthesis, waveshaping, subtractive or physical modeling.

As in the original prototype, longitude controls the output of the speaker array. It will automatically spatialize the longitudinal coordinates across multiple speakers. Basically, this means that Tectonic is no longer limited to one speaker per zone. Instead, the reading can register at any point in a 360-degree radius.

Kamoni: Various Live Performance Recordings

I have dug up some past live performances and bounced out excerpts that are freely available for download on SoundCloud. Everything is played in real time on a DrumKat or Roland SPD-20 hooked up to Ableton Live. See http://youtube.com/kamoni for a visual explanation. They are not mixed or mastered, rather raw real-time bits of performances from various places I have played over the past 5 years. Enjoy!

Live performance of “Ocelot” from Warper party - NYC by micahfrank

Live performance ‘Viviparous’ - Earthdance Tampa, Florida by micahfrank

Live performance ‘Margauy’ @ Q Club - Birmingham UK by micahfrank

Live performance of “Echidna” from Phuq Radio show. by micahfrank