#AudioSynthesis

[zzzwiw]

In the realm of experimental sound design, NoiseSpace and NoInputMixer emerge as two distinct yet complementary tools, each offering unique features and unparalleled potential for creativity. As the creator of these applications, I am excited to delve into their conceptual and functional differences, while also highlighting the shared vision that unites them.

[fidgetyhands]

I've read the Native Tongue trilogy, although it was a while ago at this point.

I loved the world building (even though parts of it were definitely into dystopian nightmare territory for sexism reasons and for hyper-rigid scheduling reasons). The experimentation to get native human speakers for non-humanish languages was chilling and believable and interesting. I still think about their firm Sapir-Whorfism. I kind of want to compare and contrast Nazareth's "we set out to build a different way of thinking for the younger generation. Of course we who are not of that generation weren't able to predict where they'd go with that" to Varley's Persistence of Vision, but I don't know where I'm going with that.

OTOH, the third book and its audiosynthesis was deeply odd even by my generous standards. Sometimes there are too many horrible men in my real life for me to want to read about fictional horrible men, even though the authorial voice is clear about not supporting them. I'm not sure how... Michaela (? the he-had-it-coming murderer) would read to me if I read the books again now. (possibly I'd actively approve, tbh) I have complex negative thoughts about the Families' factory-farming approach to children.

Hey question followers, has anyone else ever read Woman on the Edge of Time ever? How about Native Tongue? The Holdfast Chronicles? I want to talk about weird 70's-80's Feminist Sci-Fi(tm) and it seems like no one else in my auspices is familiar.

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Symphony of a Return of Determination II 2/August/2018 The cover is created by multiply #neuralstyling a #randomwalk. The music is made with the following code (forked from an Overtone example): (definst voices [amp 8] (let [n 8 src (* amp (dust (repeat n 2))) del (comb-l src 0.1 (repeatedly n #(+ (rand 0.004) 0.003)) 4)] (splay del :spread 0.8))) (doseq [n [0.01 0.6 1 2 4 8 32]] (voices n)) This code is licensed CC-0 (public domain). #audiosynthesis #clojure #clojureovertone #overtone #audio #audioart #originalart #algorithmicart #digitalart #newmedia #artistsofinstagram #artistsoftumblr #modernart #neuralart #music #avantgarde #experimental #experimentalart #computerart #art2018 #artstudent #algorithmiccomposition #synthesis #supercollider #sc3 #supercollider3 #creativecommons #publicdomain #freshair #grunge #pale #empowerment

[carolineinthecities]

if you like jazz, these boys have you covered

[thehifiman]

Audio Synthesis Desire Decade Mono-blocks Rarely available, stunning AudioSynthesis Desire Decade Mono-block amplifiers. Complete with original Packaging £2490 https://www.instagram.com/p/CA9fsOhJOan/?igshid=1ditogfn3mt5t

[wendyimmiller]

Philodendron Philharmonic

Mary Vaananen tunes in to office plants.

My friend Mary Vaananen records sounds made by plants in the dead of winter. Seems weird, doesn’t it? It is weird, but when you are growing desperate for spring, listening to tender plants is a good fallback.

Have you heard of plant neurobiology?

Michael Pollan laid out a you’re-not-going-to-believe-this argument in his 2013 New Yorker article, “Intelligent Plant.”

Wired for sound. Thaumatophyllum (Philodendron) bipinnatifidum.

The proponents of plant intelligence “believe that we must stop regarding plants as passive objects—the mute, immobile furniture of our world—and begin to treat them as protagonists in their own dramas, highly skilled in the ways of contending in nature.”

Perhaps even the musical stage.

The issue that Pollan presents boils down to the difference between consciousness and self-consciousness. Plants are conscious. But do they know that they are? They are, without doubt, communicating between one another via intricate fungal partnerships.

To that end, each fall, Mary Vaananen moves dozens of potted plants from her beautiful and artful Louisville garden into the comfy indoor office space where she spends her workdays year round.

Now there exists a simple recording studio at the North American office of Jelitto Perennial Seeds where chores routinely run toward customer service, public relations and order fulfillment.

The winter home of the Philodendron Philharmonic.

Benefits come with working for Jelitto, though. While Mary was waiting to sow complimentary perennial seeds of Cerinthe major ‘Purpurascens’ and Dianthus ‘Dancing Geisha’, the Philodendron Philharmonic filled the gray winter days with melody and heady plant science.

Mary’s plant menagerie was hooked up to a sensing device called a MIDI Sprout. The results are electronic impulses translated through a synthesizer-like device. The result is joyful, ambient noise.

Pollan didn’t prepare me for the surprise I felt from hearing the individual melodies of the four members of the Philodendron Philharmonic.

https://www.gardenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Voice_190119_1-Philodendron.mp3

Philodendron

  https://www.gardenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Voice_190128-Croton-Eleanor-Roosevelt-Copy.mp3

Croton

  https://www.gardenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Voice_190119_2-Sanseveria-1.mp3

Sanseveria

  https://www.gardenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Voice_190214-Birds-nest-fern-overcast.mp3

Bird’s Nest Fern

  The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” wouldn’t have been the same without a synthesizer’s effect. And the Philodendron Philharmonic wouldn’t have the same decipherable ambient sound without a MIDI Sprout.

Bird’s nest fern and Croton “Eleanor Roosevelt’ take a rest.

I emailed Jonathan Gregg, the New York-based musician and songwriter who plays pedal steel guitar with SUSS, an ambient country band. What was his impression of the Philodendron Philharmonic? SUSS has more than seven million streams to its credit on Spotify. Their most recent album, “Ghost Box (Expanded),” came out in November 2018 on Northern Spy records, and their latest single, “Chisholm Train,” was released May 14.

Gregg responded:

“These recordings provide a fascinating insight into not only the variety of energy emanating from plants, but also how harnessing that energy can translate into a musical construct, with dynamics and shifting colors and tones subject to various types of stimulus, very much the way certain kinds of music come into being.

Suss

“In my work recording with SUSS, my objective is to provide as close to a spontaneous response to the stimulus (in this case, the tracks my colleagues have prepared) as possible to create a pure, unmediated signal. The ideal outcome is the nexus of inspiration and inevitability—the sense that this is the way it had to go based on the environment of the moment.

“This effort to not overthink and to rely on the most immediate impulse (very much like Allen Ginsberg’s “first thought, best thought” philosophy) finds its purest expression in the entirely reactive process from members of the plant quartet.

“Indeed, these plant recordings compound that symbiosis, reflecting the possibilities presented by four sources interacting simultaneously. As with the improvisations of a free jazz combo, the music of the plants strongly implies a collaborative audiosynthesis, as the ensemble’s performance mutates and evolves. The parallels are as exciting as they are indisputable.”

Bird’s nest fern and Croton ‘Eleanor Roosevelt’ take a rest.

Welcome to the botanic bandstand.

But are plants thinking? I’m not sure.

What I am certain of is that trees are not as dumb as stumps. Neither are Mary’s philodendrons, crotons, sansevierias and bird’s nest ferns.

Philodendron Philharmonic originally appeared on GardenRant on June 12, 2019.

from Gardening https://www.gardenrant.com/2019/06/philodendron-philharmonic.html via http://www.rssmix.com/

[turfandlawncare]

Philodendron Philharmonic

Mary Vaananen tunes in to office plants.

My friend Mary Vaananen records sounds made by plants in the dead of winter. Seems weird, doesn’t it? It is weird, but when you are growing desperate for spring, listening to tender plants is a good fallback.

Have you heard of plant neurobiology?

Michael Pollan laid out a you’re-not-going-to-believe-this argument in his 2013 New Yorker article, “Intelligent Plant.”

Wired for sound. Thaumatophyllum (Philodendron) bipinnatifidum.

The proponents of plant intelligence “believe that we must stop regarding plants as passive objects—the mute, immobile furniture of our world—and begin to treat them as protagonists in their own dramas, highly skilled in the ways of contending in nature.”

Perhaps even the musical stage.

The issue that Pollan presents boils down to the difference between consciousness and self-consciousness. Plants are conscious. But do they know that they are? They are, without doubt, communicating between one another via intricate fungal partnerships.

To that end, each fall, Mary Vaananen moves dozens of potted plants from her beautiful and artful Louisville garden into the comfy indoor office space where she spends her workdays year round.

Now there exists a simple recording studio at the North American office of Jelitto Perennial Seeds where chores routinely run toward customer service, public relations and order fulfillment.

The winter home of the Philodendron Philharmonic.

Benefits come with working for Jelitto, though. While Mary was waiting to sow complimentary perennial seeds of Cerinthe major ‘Purpurascens’ and Dianthus ‘Dancing Geisha’, the Philodendron Philharmonic filled the gray winter days with melody and heady plant science.

Mary’s plant menagerie was hooked up to a sensing device called a MIDI Sprout. The results are electronic impulses translated through a synthesizer-like device. The result is joyful, ambient noise.

Pollan didn’t prepare me for the surprise I felt from hearing the individual melodies of the four members of the Philodendron Philharmonic.

https://www.gardenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Voice_190119_1-Philodendron.mp3

Philodendron

  https://www.gardenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Voice_190128-Croton-Eleanor-Roosevelt-Copy.mp3

Croton

  https://www.gardenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Voice_190119_2-Sanseveria-1.mp3

Sanseveria

  https://www.gardenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Voice_190214-Birds-nest-fern-overcast.mp3

Bird’s Nest Fern

  The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” wouldn’t have been the same without a synthesizer’s effect. And the Philodendron Philharmonic wouldn’t have the same decipherable ambient sound without a MIDI Sprout.

Bird’s nest fern and Croton “Eleanor Roosevelt’ take a rest.

I emailed Jonathan Gregg, the New York-based musician and songwriter who plays pedal steel guitar with SUSS, an ambient country band. What was his impression of the Philodendron Philharmonic? SUSS has more than seven million streams to its credit on Spotify. Their most recent album, “Ghost Box (Expanded),” came out in November 2018 on Northern Spy records, and their latest single, “Chisholm Train,” was released May 14.

Gregg responded:

“These recordings provide a fascinating insight into not only the variety of energy emanating from plants, but also how harnessing that energy can translate into a musical construct, with dynamics and shifting colors and tones subject to various types of stimulus, very much the way certain kinds of music come into being.

Suss

“In my work recording with SUSS, my objective is to provide as close to a spontaneous response to the stimulus (in this case, the tracks my colleagues have prepared) as possible to create a pure, unmediated signal. The ideal outcome is the nexus of inspiration and inevitability—the sense that this is the way it had to go based on the environment of the moment.

“This effort to not overthink and to rely on the most immediate impulse (very much like Allen Ginsberg’s “first thought, best thought” philosophy) finds its purest expression in the entirely reactive process from members of the plant quartet.

“Indeed, these plant recordings compound that symbiosis, reflecting the possibilities presented by four sources interacting simultaneously. As with the improvisations of a free jazz combo, the music of the plants strongly implies a collaborative audiosynthesis, as the ensemble’s performance mutates and evolves. The parallels are as exciting as they are indisputable.”

Bird’s nest fern and Croton ‘Eleanor Roosevelt’ take a rest.

Welcome to the botanic bandstand.

But are plants thinking? I’m not sure.

What I am certain of is that trees are not as dumb as stumps. Neither are Mary’s philodendrons, crotons, sansevierias and bird’s nest ferns.

Philodendron Philharmonic originally appeared on GardenRant on June 12, 2019.

from GardenRant http://bit.ly/2RbTJBB

[temporarytotem]

New word everyone: "Audiosynthesis" Audiosynthesis is when listening to a song changes your mood, either for better or worse.

[etpourquoipas]

Little known facts with Efren Castro #paradox #piensaindex #Wtalk #audiosynthesis

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“(trem :freq 100 :depth 10000 :rate 100)” Trying to synthesize a helicopter :D The code: (definst trem [freq 440 depth 10 rate 6 ] (* 0.3 (saw (max 10 (+ freq (* depth (sin-osc:ar rate))))))) (trem :freq 100 :depth 10000 :rate 100) Licensed CC-0 (public domain). #audiosynthesis #supercollider #overtone #clojure #toystory2 #toystory #toystorygame #toystory2game #helicopter #computerart #digitalart #newmedia #newmediaart #avantgarde #avantgardeart #art #art2018 #artistsontumblr #artistsoninstagram #audioart #modernart #contemporaryart #noiseart #noise #originalwork #myart #youngart #smallart #algorithmicart #algorithmiccomposition