Kamoni - Live in Birmingham, UK - 2008
Micah Frank | Sound Programming
- hisuix
- kohsaki
- spatula
- grimmergrimmer
- yasboogie
- nitingarg
- kuon09reblog
- frankisaurusrex
- si7
- motherjones
- dgroundsel
- grooveconnection
- fuckersstolemyhuffy
- akzel
- sendhelp
- zwandubz
- williac
- fuckyeahfamicom
- danmeth
- mikerugnetta
- hellonewyork
- staff
- cmeinke
- soundcloud
- djnerve
- fakescience
- listeninglectures
- zangtumb
- goingoinbackbacktocalicali
- 1stpost
- yellowlabel
- nordmach
- monfresh
- tmark
- likewowzers
- dhla
- stereophonicshock
- emergentdata
- madebyrobot
- nealcoghlan
- yourscenesucks
- theamericanmutt
- mydium
- kilate
- losttoys
- butchiebags
- antiqueoakdetective
- ricardolugo
- nowstheonlytimeiknow
- strangersonabrain
- fringeelements
- jksn
- poochkarton
- derekwisdom
- soundlocalities
- kamoni
- archigramo
- kidrobotrules
- manekineko-space
- patternflux
- michaelcampion
- garrettlynch
- zlatan1937
- frasconimusic
blogroll
Sound Design for Stoli Elit
Produced at Nise Music, Brooklyn
3 This post is tagged with: commercial
Tectonic Audio Excerpts
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
Finally finished the prototype for Tectonic after 2 months of work. Tectonic is a system I’ve been developing to create realtime synthesis based on data from seismic activity. It will ultimately be a complete install with a projector and over 12 speakers (see models below). This is the first working prototype I have set up in the studio.
I’ve already begun making new implementations and alterations. It’s quite amazing how flexible the system actually is - and a very powerful content generator. The other day I created an entire live performance powered by the barrage of seismic activity in Chile. It really is endless…
About Tectonic
Tectonic is a sound sculpture created in real time by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A tightly integrated system between Max/MSP, Google Earth and Ableton Live processes a stream of real-time data that is translated into synthesis and sample playback parameters.
When an earthquake occurs, seismic data is relayed to the system, sound is produced and Google Earth immediately flies to the coordinates of the latest earthquake giving us a visual representation of the newest developments. As multiple earthquakes occur daily, the sculpture builds, enmeshing itself in a complex soundscape of textures and tones - every second, different from the last and never repeating the same stage twice.
3 This post is tagged with: tectonic sound-design generative reactive ableton google-earth sound-art sound-installation
For the Able10 anniversary, I made a Live Pack that expands on some of the kits, grooves and Live Racks in my scrapyard of sounds. I built the song ‘Metropolis’ around the sounds and called in Atarah Valentine to lay down the vocals. The Live Pack is filled with very expressive kits that you can download for free here: http://www.ableton.com/able10-artist-packs
Original music for Olay “Bank”
produced at Music for Picture, NYC
2 This post is tagged with: commercial
Some excerpts from Kamoni’s live set using Ableton Live and a DrumKat. Includes some more jungle, dubstep, dnb improvised freestylin’.
Here’s an interview with Loopmasters from a few months back. Discussing Puremagnetik stuff and sound design.
Computer Music “Eye on the Industry”
Read it here
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.
Trash_Audio just published some Q & A in their Workspace & Environment series.
http://trashaudio.blogspot.com/2008/11/workspace-and-environment-kamoni.html
2 This post is tagged with: electronic, press drumkat doepfer monomachine interview electronic-music-production music-studio trash audio
I was sending sysex data to my Machinedrum the other day when suddenly it began blurting out the most digitally obscene sounds I have ever heard from it! I was a little offended and you might be too once you hear them. This is the stuff I love – when a piece of gear generates sounds that it could never create under its normal operating mode.
I took some time today to program a drum kit and then some Live Racks that cycle through various samples repeatedly while simultaneously jumping between sample offsets every 10ms or so creating interesting transients. Here’s a quick mp3 demo and a download link for the Live Pack. Enjoy!
This pack is now available as a free Puremagnetik download here.
3 This post is tagged with: ableton-live downloads elelectronic-music generative idm live-pack samples glitch machinedrum monomachine
