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
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.com
Produced at Nise Music, Brooklyn NYC
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Sound Design for Stoli Elit
Produced at Nise Music, Brooklyn
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Tectonic Now on SoundCloud
I am posting a daily audio blog for Tectonic with high quality, freely downloadable excerpts from the ‘daily earthquake’. Here are a few from this past week.
M 5.2, Kermadec Islands region - Thursday, April 15, 2010 13:40:59 UTC by DailyEarthquake
M 5.3, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia - Saturday, April 17, 2010 06:57:25 UTC by DailyEarthquake
M 3.0, Baja California, Mexico - Monday, April 19, 2010 at 10:30:39 UTC by DailyEarthquake
M 4.5, Pakistan - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 07:40:47 UTC by DailyEarthquake
M 3.0, Southern California - Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 11:01:06 UTC by DailyEarthquake
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.
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
