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 listed organizations. http://mcrpmusic.bandcamp.com/album/n-n-1-fall-n-rise-n-1
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
In 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 photos, but ‘bleeps’ and ‘blips’.
While the audio was overdubbed in post-production, the sound sources accurately represent the machine depicted.
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.
Today’s Analog Tanglethon
Sonification of Earthquakes off the Coast of Honshu, Japan - Friday March 11, 2011
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 that result in interesting generations I will post throughout the day on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/micahfrank
Tectonic is a realtime seismic analysis and sound synthesis system. Sound is created in realtime by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A tightly integrated system between Max/MSP, Google Earth and Symbolic Sound’s Kyma processes earthquake data that is translated into sound synthesis parameters. A USGS XML feed is parsed into numerous fields including magnitude, elevation, time of day and geographical coordinates. These data are mapped to synthetic spectrums and processed by granular, aggregate and subtractive synthesis.
Learn more about Tectonic at http://micahfrank.com/tagged/tectonic
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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.
Ableton Live Instrument : Bald Eagle and Male Vocal Cross-Synthesized
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.
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/Seraphim.adg
3) The first time you instance the rack, Live will tell you “Media files are missing” You must relink the multisample file to the instrument.
Free Sonification Compilation & Ableton Live Instrument
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 74’s Max/MSP and synthesized in Symbolic Sound’s Kyma X. Read more about Tectonic
Live Pack Instructions (Be sure that you are running the latest version of Live 8.2)
1) Download the Tectonic audio content by clicking the download (arrow) icon in the SoundCloud player above.
2) Download the Live Pack
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/538153/tectonic/Tectonic_Instrument.zip
3) Follow a few more steps included in the Live Pack.
Questions? Please write me: micah-dot-frank-at-gmail-dot-com
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.
Recording glass IRs to process in Kyma for Puremagnetik’s Onda library. Onda will be a multi-sampled hybrid instrument collection structured from Harm Visser’s Kyma Physical Modeling Toolkit but utilizing new source material.
Combuster - Live Performance Trigger Environment : GUI prototyping
Combuster: Live Performance Trigger Environment in Max/MSP Combuster (renamed from KamoniVision) is well underway. I have completed the lowest (zone) level with a fully functional trigger sampler that can be x-faded with a 3 osc synth. Includes pitch envelope, filter envelope, equal power x-fading between the synth and sampler, one LFO per zone.
Zones will be grouped into a Stack, so the I can layer multiple zones into a single sound. Each stack has a behavior or articulation that can be triggered during a realtime performance (buzz rolls, sample offseting, timestretching).
The next level up from Stacks is the full Kit which will allow for Round-Robin triggering or intermodulation via an LFO. Multiple Kits can then be arranged into a full “Palette”. Palettes can be called by an “event trigger” by the performer - simply a physical trigger or an accelerando.
