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This is a workshop for the Yoshimi soft-synth, and is intended to give an overview of ideas for using the synth at live venues. This is a workshop for the Yoshimi soft-synth, and is intended to give an overview of ideas for using the synth at live venues. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A challenge to produce a music track within 60 minutes. Participants get a short MIDI file as a starting point, and woA challenge to produce a music track within 60 minutes. Participants get a short MIDI file as a starting point, and work on their track using the tools and techniques of their choice. An excellent way to test your skills as a producer. As the participants can use the program of the...

Tessellations plays with the repetition of material generated by manipulating the interval structure of the chord and submitting it to short processes that I generate myself in Python and execute them inside PD with the py object. This piece is an experimentation on the way I link time, material and narrative. The “tessellated” object not only morphs the musical material but also the space where i...

Composition for prepared electric guitar and live electronics (SuperCollider), with multichannel spatialization. Composition for prepared electric guitar and live electronics (SuperCollider), with multichannel spatialization. about this event: https://c3voc.de

COSMO Collective is an open musical collaboration for musicians using DIY electronics and custom software written in Csound. There is no definite musical style, though it could perhaps be characterized as electro-acoustic improvisation. The focus is on the exploration of sound and timbre, rather than traditional harmonics and rhythm, and exploiting the powers of Csound in this pursuit. COSMO Colle...

Six modular synthesizers and one digital instrument interact in an improvised performance. Their spatial movements are defined by rotations in opposite directions over time, realized on an eight channel speaker system - the Electronic Orchestra Charlottenburg (EOC) (https://www.ak.tu-berlin.de/menue/elektronisches_studio/elektronisches_orchester_charlottenburg/), a project of the Electronic Music...

Claude Heiland-Allen (https://mathr.co.uk) is an artist from London interested in the complex emergent behaviour of simple systems, unusual geometries, and mathematical aesthetics. Clive is an audio live-coding skeleton, implemented in C. It supports a two-phase edit-commit coding cycle allowing long-lived signal processing graphs to be modified without interrupting the sound. Performance with Cli...

The MOD Project: an overview of the history, some comments and considerations about an Open Source Linux Audio centric hardware business attempt and some insights for the future. MOD was born in 2010, first debuted at LAC in 2013, crowdfunded a mass product in 2014, delivered it in 2016, consolidated in 2017 and got funded in 2018. These 8 years have been quite interesting and a lot has happened a...

Perlin noise is a well known algorithm in computer graphics applications and one of the first algorithms for generating procedural textures. It has been very widely used in movies, games, demos, and landscape generators, but despite its popularity it has been seldom used for creative purposes in the fields outside the world of computer graphics. This paper discusses the use of Perlin noise and fra...

SpectMorph is an open source software which performs morphing of the timbre of musical instruments. This allows creating sounds that smoothly transition from the timbre of one instrument to the timbre of another instrument. There are three steps necessary to obtain the final sound. In the analysis, we use the fourier transform to create models of the spectrum of the input samples. During synthesis...

Audio tools face a set of uncommon user interface design and implementation challenges. These constraints make high quality interfaces within the open source realm particular difficult to execute on volunteer time. The challenges include producing a unique identity for the application, providing easy to use controls for the parameters of the application, and providing interesting ways to visualize...

Physical modelling is a synthesis technique where data is generated through emulating physical models, instead of using premade elements such as wave tables or recorded samples. Data based on physical models usually has a more “natural” expressivity, as it is based on rules similar to the physics of the natural world. This workshop introduces pmpd, a library by Cyrille Henry that implements a mass...

Camomile is an audio plugin with Pure Data embedded allowing to create original and cross-platform audio plugins using patches and that could run in any digital audio workstation that accepts the VST or Audio Unit formats. The paper presents an overview of the current functionalities of Camomile and the possibilities offered by this tool. Following this, the main lines of the future developments a...

The levTools are a set of abstractions for Pure Data, that are primarily designed for teaching electronic music. Moreover, they have a huge creative potential for experienced pd-users or computer musicians in general, especially when working on linux-based OS. The flexible and open character of the modular toolset allows multiple approaches. The levTools are free and open source. They were develop...

Many of us would love to start DJing with software, comparable to commercial offerings out there. Thanks to the fantastic work that the Mixxx has done, it is now possible. However, Mixxx could be a little off-putting due to the fact that setting a controller up might not be as user friendly as with software like Traktor. Louigi will run through all the difficult places, demonstrate how to set thin...

This paper describes the logic and process behind the development of the RSVP preset library for the Pure Data programming environment. The library aims to tackle the lack of a native preset system in Pure Data. Other projects like Kollabs, CREAM, sssad, and others, have produced different solutions for this issue. However, after experimenting with the mentioned libraries, I decided to approach th...

The paper describes a new multichannel sound interface for the BeagleBone Black, "Cape4all". The sound interface has 6 input channels with optional microphone pre-amplifiers and between 4 and 6 output channels. The multichannel sound extension cape for the BeagleBone Black is designed and produced. An ALSA driver is written for it. It is used with the openMHA hearing aid research software to perfo...

This Workshop demonstrates the use of the Yoshimi soft synthesiser as a platform for building entirely synthetic musical instruments, based on exploring the structure and interplay of defining traits within musical sound. Starting from characteristic overtones and spectral patterns as foundation, the specific body of the tone can be shaped by fine tuning the transients. Further techniques of trans...

Sentire is an Italian word that means both to hear and to feel. The project is about exploring the fine mixture of these two senses and, particularly, to their amplification and morphing. 'Sentire' project was initiated by two Berlin-based artists Marcello Lussana and Olga Kozmanidze in 2016. The project consists of two parts: immersive performance series based on interactive sound and PhD researc...

This hands-on workshop is intended for Pd and Linux audio users who want to start using Purr Data. For an introduction to Purr Data, please check our LAC17 presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1wo496Zx0s) and the Quick Introduction (https://agraef.github.io/purr-data-intro). Topics of the 90 min workshop vary from the basics to the moderately advanced and include: - Getting a minimal Pur...

Electroacoustic 8-channel fixed media composition Electroacoustic 8-channel fixed media composition about this event: https://c3voc.de

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This composition is made up of sounds that represent various moments of my childhood. In particular, I used sounds that still make me feel special emotions such as: the rain, the planes, the clamour of people, musical bands, the tick of old clocks, the glitches, etc. By listening to this piece I go back to that period of my life which I am particularly attached to and which unfortunately will not...

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Atlas of Uncertainty is an experimental music video based on the representation of 4 Classical elements, that typically refer to the concepts in Ancient Greece of water, fire, earth and aether, which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances. The music that accompanies this computer generated video is a sonic continuum ranging from unaltered na...