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Youtube: SkruntSkrunt and RapidFireThreatre's Tim Mikula and Colin Matty With BEAMS!

BEAMS with Rapid Fire Theatre Multimedia extravaganza

When: Saturday Nov 30, 8 pm Where: Ortona Room at the Ortona Armoury 9722-102 st, Edmonton, AB What: BEAMS + Rapid Fire Theatre Multimedia extravaganza

The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS), together with Rapid Fire Theatre, is presenting an evening of electronic and experimental music and multimedia at the Ortona Room on Saturday, November 30 at 8:00 p.m. Tim Mikula and Colin Matty from RFT will adapt their madcap physical theatre to the surreal soundscapes of St Crispin’s Improv, Skruntskrunt, flEm and agapéraygunexperiment. Sound artists Don Ross, Cam Neufeld, Shawn Pinchbeck, Gene Kosowan, Abram Hindle, Phil Jagger and more will use tech high and low, including motion detectors, Kinect depth sensor camera, projectors, synths, loopers, kaos pad, clarinet, violin and bass.

http://blog.beams.ca/2013/11/beams-with-rapid-fire-theatre.html http://beams.ca/ http://skruntskrunt.ca/

Source code for the instrument:

https://github.com/abramhindle/rapid-fire-instruments

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LGdtCa75tkM

Youtube: SkruntSkrunt - DKL DKLG

SkruntSrkunt - DKL DKLG http://skruntskrunt.ca/

Source Code: http://softwareprocess.es/b/dkl.sc (Supercollider) http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/ http://skruntskrunt.ca/a/skruntskrunt-dkl-dklg.flac

I use primarily DynKlank and DynKlang from Supercollider and made 2 guis to control the paramters.

Audacity is used to record the video, I edited in kdenlive. ffmpeg recorded the video. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ http://ffmpeg.org/ https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/multimedia/kdenlive

https://youtube.com/watch?v=V4ugAvjeDm4

Youtube: SkruntSkrunt Livecoding With ChucK at the Pawnshop With Other Synth Maniacs

SkruntSkrunt – Stereo Beatings and Bit Crushing

Borys invited me to his synth-stravaganza so I did a livecoding set using chuck and emacs. This was at the Pawnshop in Edmonton on Whyte Ave 2013-08-22 (I’ll upload videos of the other performers later).

The first part is stereo beating, that is oscillators that are offset by a little bit interacting with each other on the speakers.

The second part is more oscillator swarms buzzing about like insects.

The third part is FM Vocal synthesis, some are just producing random phonemes, others are saying phrases.

Then the last bit is bit crushing, using functions based on t (f(t)) where t is the sample # we use that to make musical signals. Check out one-liner orchestras http://countercomplex.blogspot.ca/2011/10/some-deep-analysis-of-one-line-music.html

Here is the repo of the chuck snippets I used that night!

https://github.com/abramhindle/abrams-chuck-snippets/tree/4669a53c5f1c6a741fe3b9bf6fa31726e5447657

http://projectm.sourceforge.net/ was the visualizer.

https://github.com/emacsmirror/chuck-mode is the emacs mode

Get ChucK http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=T6HtsaWP5cg

Youtube: SkruntSkrunt Versus BackStreet Boys I Want It That Way! 3 FM Synths - Music Information Retrieval

This is 3 parallel FM tracks versus the backstreet boys.

½ of the sounds in this video are from this sound file: http://softwareprocess.es/b/fmout.ogg

The original video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg

The track w/o the backstreet boys is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fIxG_uCk-g

Mostitch tries to interpret the audio by running metrics on the input audio (backstreet boys) and then matches it to the closest audio from the fm synthesizer. Then it reports the index of the best match in the synthesizer. This best match aligns with a set of parameters that we feed back into the original synthesizer.

To give you some idea of the roundabout path we take here’s an example of how everything starts:

python print_stitch.py fm/fmout.wav | perl fm/fmmapper.pl fm/map.dump | csound -L stdin -o devaudio -+rtaudio=jack -dm6 ./fm/fm.orc ./fm/fmlive.sco

Source code here: https://github.com/abramhindle/mostitch/tree/fm

This version is 3 bands of FM synthesis stitched together with some hard stereo panning.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=le6pF_4j0zI

Youtube: SkruntSkrunt Versus BackStreet Boys I Want It That Way!

Please use the youtube doubler to view this, it’ll make more sense:

http://ur1.ca/ee34l

The only sounds in this video are from this sound file: http://softwareprocess.es/b/fmout.ogg

The original video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg

Mostitch tries to interpret the audio by running metrics on the input audio (backstreet boys) and then matches it to the closest audio from the fm synthesizer. Then it reports the index of the best match in the synthesizer. This best match aligns with a set of parameters that we feed back into the original synthesizer.

To give you some idea of the roundabout path we take here’s an example of how everything starts:

python print_stitch.py fm/fmout.wav | perl fm/fmmapper.pl fm/map.dump | csound -L stdin -o devaudio -+rtaudio=jack -dm6 ./fm/fm.orc ./fm/fmlive.sco

Source code here: https://github.com/abramhindle/mostitch/tree/fm

This version is 3 bands of FM synthesis stitched together with some hard stereo panning.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3fIxG_uCk-g

Youtube: Skruntskrunt - Left 4.5k Piezo Ceramic Right Homegrown Crystal With Toothbrush

Here is a demo of the big crystal with the tinfoil on the right channel and a 4.5k piezo contact mic on the left channel. There’s a toothbrush involved as well.

Description: http://skruntskrunt.ca/blog/2012/09/19/playing-with-piezo-crystals/

Home made piezo crystals + homemade amp and dehummer used to make noise.

Audio file: http://skruntskrunt.ca/a/skruntskrunt-left-4.5k-piezo-ceramic-right-homegrown-crystal-toothbrush.ogg

Source code: https://github.com/abramhindle/visualize-audio-with-images

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tSS3xVvSGtk