I just released a new video piece. I called it INK because there's a lot of ink in the video and "Ink" looks so small. Sounds composed with Csound using a python script I wrote to analyze the individual frames of the video. I hope you like it! https://vimeo.com/932750036
I'm not sure I have my bearings in this Mastodoniverse. I don't know the etiquette. I can't tell if I'm doing it wrong, or if this local server is quiet. Seems like most of what I see is from the federated timeline as opposed to the local, and the local seems VERY constrained to livecoding-related discussion.
Maybe a Mastodon question I have is: if I'm on a server with a particular focus, I don't think we're meant to limit our discourse to that focus, right? The local timeline on this server feels very constrained - like maybe I should find another server if I want to talk about Csound or UPIC ;)
Curious if I'm the only one having these thoughts? :) Advice / guidance welcome.
@listenfaster I'm on the big main server, so I don't really look at the local timeline myself. 😁
But since you're not restrained to your server, you can always look for people using the #csound hashtag for example, and follow them, wherever they are.
Just following liberally to fill up your timeline is something that helped to make the Fediverse interesting for me.
New EP. I recorded this in the month of February for the RPM Challenge. I went into it with a plan to work with one method I came up with a while ago, but then realized I could extend another method I've used in the past, so I had to try that a lot. I did a lot more "hand on" editing of waveforms than I usually do (I generally try to get code to do all the work). And it was fun, though my ears are very tired. On Bandcamp and Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conroy/sets/b-lloon-s-1https://matthewmconroy.bandcamp.com/album/b-lloon-s
"Have you ever wished your DAW and synth plug-ins could do something that they just plain won’t do? Have you ever dreamed of designing your own software instruments? Do you enjoy strange experimental music? Are you bored and looking for a fresh challenge? If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, Csound might be about to come into your life."
Used a knight's tour to create a sequence of pairs of durations of sound followed by silence. Result is a piece that is 50% sound, 50% silence. Sounds are heavily layered, mixed, clipped, filtered, recordings of metal things. #sound#music#disquietJunto#disquiet0605#csound
For Disquiet Junto 0601 https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0601-hard-six/
I threw a die in my bathtub and recorded the throws with an AT822 stereo microphone (through a Zoom H5) that I bought (used) years ago but had never used (I’m not really much of a microphone person). Then, using Csound, I placed copies of each recording across about 3.5 minutes, with various densities, filtering, playback speeds and amplitudes. The rolls determined for how much of the piece each recording appears: the rolls were 3,5,6,5,6,3, so the 6 rolls appear throughout, the 5’s appear up to 5/6 of the piece and the 3’s cut off at the half-way point.
Trying a new approach to using recursion for composing. Here, each sound event triggers up to two additional sound events, each a function of the triggering event.
@acousticmirror@daviwil#faust is so mind blowing tbh. its just so good, you can pick up any paper and implement it in minutes just from the diagrams, without even actually reading the paper. and the workflow of the diagrams hot reload is super satisfying. its honestly the best example of a the power #DSL(s) can offer. if you're already familiar with zero-delay #DSP you can pick it up in 5 minutes, and port things that require a small mountain of #csound code to like, 10 lines of faust in 15 minutes. its bafflingly good, and extremely declarative. if you understand a design — or hell, better yet, even if you don't understand it but have it ready at hand — you can implement it at the speed of reading.
last I was using it about 2 years ago it suffered from not having a proper fft story, which is certainly a significant area to not cover, but spectral processing is kinda nerdy anyway lol. what Faust offers is the best possible set of tools for getting deep and dirty with the most fundamental object of interest to the real dub heads — infinite impulse response filters, and the precise control over non-linearities they offer as elaborated in the filter theory of Vadim Zavalishin.