December 2011
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October 2011
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Arctiidae: Elektron Octatrack arrangement & all...
Arctiidae by Micah Frank
Arctiidae is a self-evolving arrangement built entirely with an Elektron Octatrack. My goal was to move away from the computer and program the Octatrack with extensive timing and sound modulations. Most sounds have at least 2 simultaneous LFOs morphing their assigned voices. The end result is not fixed and the arrangement sounds different each time “play”...
September 2011
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June 2011
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Elektron Octatrack vs Filippo Berio
Octatrack vs Filippo Berio by Micah Frank
Processed Octatrack patterns using only samples recorded live from a Filippo Berio Olive Oil container. See more Octatrack Versus
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Ableton Live Rack : Whales In Ouzo
Whales in Ouzo uses 2 trombone samples granularly resynthesized in Kyma and processed through 2 separate parallel delay lines each with a dual formant filter.
1) Download the audio content by clicking the download (arrow) icon in the SoundCloud player.
2) Download the Live Instrument Rack http://dl.dropbox.com/u/538153/LiveSounds/WhalesInOuzo.adg
3) The first time you instance...
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Ableton Live Rack - Granular Marimbas
Granular Marimbas was created by combining two identical marimba samples and resynthesizing them in Kyma’s Sample Cloud.
Granular Marimbas by Micah Frank
1) Download the audio content by clicking the download (arrow) icon in the SoundCloud player.
2) Download the Live Instrument Rack http://dl.dropbox.com/u/538153/LiveSounds/GranularMarimbas.adg
3) The first time you instance...
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Elektron Octatrack vs Toothbrush
Octatrack vs Toothbrush by Micah Frank
5 toothbrush samples as processed and sequenced by an Elektron Octatrack. See more Octatrack Versus
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Ableton Live Pack: Dark Villosus - 10 Instruments...
Dark Villosus by Micah Frank
The Dark Villosus Live Pack is a collection of 10 instruments that use a single sample of white noise in different processings. Download the Dark Villosus Live Pack
March 2011
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Elektron Octatrack vs Squeaky Giraffe
Octatrack vs Squeaky Giraffe by Micah Frank
Squeaky giraffe samples as processed and sequenced by Elektron Octatrack. See more Octatrack Versus
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Ableton Live Instrument: Xenogenetic - A goat and...
Xenogenetic Demo by Micah Frank
Xenogenetic is a multisample instrument for Ableton Live that morphs the frequency and amplitude envelopes of a goat “bahhh” into a female vocal. From there they are picked apart, additively resynthesized, resonated and put through a feedback loop. Then they are subjected to convolution processes from within a tweed amplifier. Well… hopefully...
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Elektron Octatrack vs Scissors
Octatrack vs Scissors by Micah Frank
Scissor samples as processed and sequenced by Elektron Octatrack. See more Octatrack Versus
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落ちる n; 立ち上がる n+1 ... fall n; rise n+1
This compilation of original music and sound has been generated in the days immediately following the staggering 9.0 earthquake which ravished Japan, and is released in support of the ongoing rescue and reconstruction efforts ongoing today.
Many of these tracks used Tectonic sonifications as source material. Listen to the album in its entirety and please consider contributing to one of the...
Puremagnetik Subscription for Donation
My company Puremagnetik has just launched a page for the SXSW4Japan fundraiser. Our humble goal is set at $1400. We are matching all donations with their value in subscriptions.
Help SXSW4Japan reach their $80k goal for Japan aid efforts. Get a 6 to 12 month Puremagnetik subscription when you donate to SXSW4Japan fund: http://sxsw4japan.org/puremagnetik
WatchIn the 2nd half of 2008, I brought various drum machines with me wherever I traveled. In passing time I documented the machines in different locations, collecting a visual and aural diary - from hotel rooms in LA to driving through the Canadian wilderness to my home in Brooklyn. This visual adventure has uniquely encapsulated an important period of my life that isn’t expressed in words or...
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Elektron Octatrack vs Cheese Grater
Octatrack vs Cheese Grater by Micah Frank
Elektron Octatrack processing and sequencing a cheese grater at various tempos of 38/48 time.
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Today's Analog Tanglethon
Analog Screams by Micah Frank
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Tectonic on PBS.org : A chilling aural portrait of... →
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Sonification of Earthquakes off the Coast of...
Earthquakes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan - Friday March 11, 2011 by Micah Frank
Sonification of the incredible seismic activity off the coast of Honshu, Japan - Friday March 11th.
This is only a selection of 20 or so individual readings. At the time of this recording, earthquakes are ongoing as there have been almost 40 readings in the past 8 hours.
UPDATE: As more readings come in...
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Elektron Octatrack vs Aluminum Foil
Octatrack vs Aluminum Foil by Micah Frank
4 playback tracks of aluminum foil and 4 “neighbor” effects tracks. LFOs modulating feedbacks, plate verb params etc.
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Ableton Live Instrument : Bald Eagle and Male...
Seraphim is a multisample Ableton Live instrument created by cross-synthesizing a North American Bald Eagle with a male vocal. The resulting sound was then put through a long decay resonator whose center frequency follows the chromatic pitch.
Seraphim by Micah Frank
1) Download the audio content by clicking the download (arrow) icon in the SoundCloud player.
2) Download the Live...
February 2011
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Free Sonification Compilation & Ableton Live...
Tectonic by MicahFrank
The Tectonic compilation includes almost an hour of earthquake sonifications that can be listened to as a full length album, or played as an instrument in Ableton Live. The Live instrument includes over 30 high quality samples arranged as a menu of soundscapes.
The compilation’s source material originated from US Geological Survey data, parsed by Cycling...
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Onda Hybrid Instruments Demo
A quick demo from the upcoming Onda library I’m developing. Onda is a collection of fictitious instruments physically modeled in Kyma. This showcases hybrid instruments Bowed Crystal, Guitar with a water-like resonator, a tuned drum with “plucking” characteristics and a steel drum/harp sorta thingy.
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January 2011
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December 2010
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Junction Sonifications as Generated by Max & Kyma
Junction Sonifications by Aurchinaut
Aurchinaut SoundCloud page now has some of the Junction generations from the past few weeks. Some of them are individual NYC intersections, others represent the entire grid. Each generation captures only a few minutes of the ongoing sculpture.
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Creating Music From Space Weather
The National Space Weather Prediction Center publishes a continually updated resource of solar wind measurements. I’ve begun parsing the data for sonification.
A similar project has been completed by The University of Michigan with pre-programmed, musically arranged material. My goal is to use the same concept but harness the data to synthesize sounds “organically” in...
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October 2010
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Interview for Wire to the Ear
I recently spoke on the IMSTA Festa Technology panel with Wire to the Ear’s Oliver Chesler. We followed up with this short Q&A: http://www.wiretotheear.com/2010/09/29/interview-with-micah-frank-of-puremagnetik/
September 2010
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Tectonic debuted last weekend at 319 Scholes. Six speaker surround array and a kiosk with visualizations programmed by Dave Linnenbank.
July 2010
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Samples: 64BitBreakfast: Kyma, RME, Bias Peak &...
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WinkSound Short About Puremagnetik
In the Studio with WinkSound
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Free Samples : Digital Blasphemy (The Sound of...
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...
June 2010
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May 2010
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Kamoni - Live in Birmingham, UK - 2008
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WatchSound Design for Stoli Elit Produced at Nise Music, Brooklyn
April 2010
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Tectonic Audio Excerpts
Tectonic Sonifications by aurchinaut
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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...
March 2010
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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...
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