I updated the swarmed post.

I’ve been playing a little bit with piezo crystals. Some good how to videos include:

• Piezo Crystal Howto Video
• MAKE: Magazine Piezo howto

You just need soda ash (baking soda that you cooked) and cream of tartar to make these crystals.

So I made some:

I hooked them up with alligator clips:

I had to amplify the crystals to hear them:

The amplifier I used is described here: Fet Amp. It is very easy to source the parts from digikey.

I made a more permanent mic out of a crystal that I soldered:

I had TERRIBLE mains hum and I tried dealing with it in analog with a Twin T Notch Filter using a 1uF and a 2.2uF and 680 ohm resistors to cut out 60hz. It did not work well:

I eventually made some csound code to dehum for me.

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.

• Ogg File – loud!
• Video presentation of this ogg file

slight highlight from Noisefest, mostly SkruntSkrunt, i shot Xome’s entire set but it didn’t transfer from my cursed camera

https://youtube.com/watch?v=14g_0gUeaw8

Recorded from my wrist.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QawCMcub5BU

2012 Victoria Noise Festival Submission: AMASASATTSPBW - Avoiding Multicolinearity in Automatic Soundtracks: A Statistical Analysis of Textural, Temporal, and Spatial Properties of Breaking Waves

Video: Parker Thiessen Audio: skruntskrunt (abram hindle) / burn [the computer]

Video description: Shores of Iceland

Abram used R, Perl, Csound, and OpenCV to generate this score.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=buxVu3MMEug

SkruntSkrunt recently just performed 2 performances of interactive music instrument: SWARMED.

This instrument allows the audience to play it with their own cellphones. They just need to sign up to my wifi network and they get redirected to a web instrument that plays out on the PA!

• YEGRB Edmonton Ruby Users Group (June 19, 2012). It did not work that well :(
• Ramshackle Day Parade. It finally worked well. (June 20, 2012)
• The Works Arts & Design Festival in Edmonton. (June 22, 2012). It worked quite well.
• The Annual Victoria Noise Festival In Victoria (August 25, 2012). Get ready for the set at the Victoria Noise Festival in August 23-24, 2012!

The Victoria Noise Festival Performance

• A modified SWARMED (source code) was performed at the Victoria Noise Festival
  • There were Lots of good sets!

  • My set was well received, a good set.

    • Here’s the video I got: SkruntSkrunt live at the Victoria 2012 Noise Festival.

  • GRZKGL gave me this recording: 150mb Audio Flac

The Works Performance

• SWARMED was performed at the THE WORKS Festival in Edmonton June 22, 2012
  • Video 1: SkruntSkrunt - SWARMED (2/2 Audience View) – Edmonton WORKS Festival June 22, 2012
  • This video above, shows the audience view of the performance and how the audience interacted.
  • Video 2: SkruntSkrunt - SWARMED (2/2 Audience View) – Edmonton WORKS Festival June 22, 2012
  • This video above, shows the audience view of the performance and how the audience interacted.
  • SkruntSkrunt - SWARMED (FPS/Performant View) – Edmonton WORKS Festival June 22, 2012
  • This video above, was shot by the performant (Abram), it provides a different perspective compared the audience interaction.

Source Code

Welcome to the new SkruntSkrunt website!

SkruntSkrunt SWARMED – Edmonton Works Festival

Please excuse the quality of videography, as this is from the audience point of view of the performance.

What’s really going on is that I’m not playing, the participants in the audience with smartphones are playing. They connect to my network and are served a webpage with a GUI on it. This GUI sends music commands to my webserver via WiFi and then that gets rendered on the PA.

The WiFi is setup as a captive portal, just like Hotel wifi, and it directs the users to my instrument gateway which then analyzes their device and chooses and an appropriate UI. The audience then can hear themselves play on the PA.

It was much louder than the video shows.

http://skruntskrunt.ca

https://youtube.com/watch?v=smYA1gPpkBw

SkruntSkrunt SWARMED – Edmonton Works Festival

Please excuse the quality of videography, as this is from the audience point of view of the performance.

What’s really going on is that I’m not playing, the participants in the audience with smartphones are playing. They connect to my network and are served a webpage with a GUI on it. This GUI sends music commands to my webserver via WiFi and then that gets rendered on the PA.

The WiFi is setup as a captive portal, just like Hotel wifi, and it directs the users to my instrument gateway which then analyzes their device and chooses and an appropriate UI. The audience then can hear themselves play on the PA.

It was much louder than the video shows.

http://skruntskrunt.ca

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

SkruntSkrunt SWARMED – Edmonton Works Festival

Please excuse the quality of videography, as this is a performer eye view of the performance. I set up the network and then walk around providing tech support.

What’s really going on is that I’m not playing, the participants in the audience with smartphones are playing. They connect to my network and are served a webpage with a GUI on it. This GUI sends music commands to my webserver via WiFi and then that gets rendered on the PA.

The WiFi is setup as a captive portal, just like Hotel wifi, and it directs the users to my instrument gateway which then analyzes their device and chooses and an appropriate UI. The audience then can hear themselves play on the PA.

It was much louder than the video shows.

http://skruntskrunt.ca

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kOPK1MW0Fds

• Here’s a jam session between skruntskrunt, d_igital and some other ninjamers!
• Here’s a jam session from 2011/12/10 with Footlocker and d_igital and skruntskrunt
• Here’s a jam session from 2011/06/14 with Footlocker and Skruntskrunt

note: these are unfortunately licensed under the hateful CC-BY-SA-NC 3.0 license (NC is death)

AMASASATTSPBW - Avoiding Multicolinearity in Automatic Soundtracks: A Statistical Analysis of Textural, Temporal, and Spatial Properties of Breaking Waves

Video: Parker Thiessen Audio: skruntskrunt (abram hindle) / burn [the computer]

Video description: Shores of Iceland

Abram used R, Perl, Csound, and OpenCV to generate this score.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FiE-WCG7SHQ

Playing with the idea of silencing entire channels, this was born.

The video is a mapping of an array images to the RMS of the audio.

The image used is the grate that covers the New Museum in New York City.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GybaVFw0CHk

• The Forest - 001(138MB)
• The Forest - 003(1GB)
• Medium Quality(169MB)
• Low Quality(55MB)
• The Forest - 004(137MB)
• Low Quality(51MB)

Another set in the forest

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2y_wXl0NRs0

Sand induced noise videos are up!

• Granularity 00. (HQ 286MB) (use firefox to play)
  • Granularity 00. (MQ 43MB)
  • Granularity 00. (LQ 12MB)
  • Youtube version of Granularity 00. (low quality)
• Granularity 00. (MQ 118MB) (use firefox to play)
  • Granularity 00. (LQ 30MB)
  • Youtube version of Granularity 00. (low quality)