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)

I performed at the 8th Annual Victoria Noise Festival.

Here’s a sample of the set filmed by someone else: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Here’s some videos I took of other performers that evening: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, a, b, c.

Also Check out http://www.youtube.com/user/abramh666. for videos from the Noise Festival as well as demos of instruments I’ve been working on!

• Wed Feb 6 03:01:4. PST 2008
  • Check albums for Motherd and Hosehead, a recent collaboration. Also check live performances for a Dagstuhl composition.

• Sat Jan 6 12:04:4. PST 2007

  • Ok long time, no update.. I’ve been keeping very busy in Waterloo (no longer Victoria) but I did dig up an old recording from one week I was visiting my grandparents on their farm. It was made with some speakers, a radio and a tape recorder. It turned out pretty good for being extremely low fi. I couldn’t find any minijack cables in town so I bought some head phones and made a patch cable for myself.
  • Saskatchewan Album

• Tue Jun 7 14:47:2. PDT 2005

  • Adam of Burning Bush fame recorded the Victoria Noise Fest 200. Set. SkruntSkrunt NoiseFest200. (30MB)

• Sun Jun 5 10:33:5. PDT 2005

  • Ok long time, no update.. I performed live 3 times in the past 2 years. 2 At Noise Festivals and I think one other time in Naniamo.
  • I have made some new instruments (which were used forthe 4th Victoria Noise Festival :

  Ostitch: a sound replace written in OCaml

  Here is my webcam csound instrument (Zen Garden) written in OCaml, it uses the webcam for input data: zengarden.tar.gz.

  Here was a prototypical explaination of it: zengarden.pdf

• Mon Jun 2 17:52:2. PDT 2003

  Performed Live At the Little Fernwood for the Victoria 2nd Annual Noise Festival. It was good. I’ll release my software online soon.

• Mon Feb 1. 22:41:1. PST 2003

  Added some algorithmically generated multidisc album I made Bird Trapped in a Vector Field. Basically place an object in a vector field and use it’s velocity and position to determine what notes to play.

• Fri Oct 1. 15:25:5. PDT 2002

  Got some images of my set from Moron, excellent :). Click Here to get some images

• Sat Oct 1. 14:00:4. PDT 2002 Played at Thursdays Last night and posted the digital recording. It went pretty well.

• Thu Sep 1. 21:47:0. PDT 2002 Boo Hoo Hoo, I have very little time to do music I’m so busy.. Boo hoo.. I’m playing at Thursday Bar in Victoria on Oct.1. with wounded infidel and victoria’s Old Skool industrial uh… cold storage enthusiatists narc!!!

• Tue Aug 2. 09:32:3. PDT 2002 Got paid last week! Not working for that guy anymore :) Added Abram’s Table Editor! It edits tables like in PD but for CSound. You can graphically edit tables with your mouse!

• Wed Jul 3. 20:04:0. PDT 2002 I am owed over $300. by my employer! Anyhoo I added the csound looper program below.

I updated my sequencer software you can use it more like a drum machine now. An example orc file is included (altho no sounds).