An old intervention by Saskia Aldinger "Daughter of All Demos"
started to bring results...related search results.
(Algo|Afro) Futuers is a programme for early-career Black artists to explore the potential of live coding and creative coding. It was tarted in 2021 by @hellocatfood and @yaxu and to has had 11 artists be part of its programme.
Check out the website for overviews of the previous programmes , including photos and videos, and stay tuned for details on how you can sign up for the 2023 programme!
I got a show coming up in New York next Saturday, April 1! Experimental music with friends, responding to the work of Marie-Noële Guex and Christophe Fellay
"Now Hear
Saturday, April 1, 2023, 6-8pm
88 Eldridge Street
In conjunction with our current exhibition Long ago in a soft light, 601Artspace is delighted to present Now Hear, a performance organized by artist Marie-Noële Guex that brings together Thessia Machado, John Roach and Ranjit Bhatnagar"
It's so easy to just like, do nothing these days. Not in a nice way.
(Is it actually to do with these days or just this period in my life?)
want some weird music?
here's five pieces i made and released in March 2021.
the tracks are sequenced in the order i made them, so you can maybe follow my train of thought?
or not, i don't always think clearly or linearly.
sdr fun
sdr fun
The automated weather service channel sounds neat without any demodulation. :)
(This is 10 seconds of output from rtl_sdr at 162.425mhz downsampled to 48khz.)
I wonder if I can make this thing sweep through some frequencies as it records...
doing the really boring thing so i can do the really exciting thing
I made an envelope generator inspired by the mechanics of inflating a balloon!
Instead of thinking in terms of "gate", "attack", "release" like conventional envelope generators, this one thinks in terms of "pressure", "inflation", and "deflation". Pressure can be controlled by another envelope generator to simulate blowing, as is the case with sound example below.
Barry Traux's Riverrun
Barry Traux's Riverrun
The last track on this album (Riverrun from 1986) is one of the earliest recordings of realtime granular synthesis: https://archive.org/details/barry-truax-digital-soundscapes
The paper about the implementation is also still an interesting read: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3679938
HUNDREDS OF NEW EDISON RECORDINGS DROPPING
Two Parts, Two Voices
Two Parts, Two Voices
There is a page up now about this exhibition of graphic scores curated by Heather Warren-Crow and Andrew Weathers at CO-OPt gallery in Lubbock Texas called Postscore.
They asked a bunch of folks to put a score on one (or two) large blank postcards and mail them back to the gallery again.
I did two for two voices based on a text from the Mahābhārata:
Time ripens the creatures. Time rots them. And time again puts out the Time that burns down the creatures.
(As I understand it, the capitalization is to distinguish between time as a concept and time as an embodied agent?)
It's fun to see all the other contributions!
Velum control! Enjoy the congested sounds.
Code:
glottis [mtof [rline 45 55 3]] 0.8
tractxyv zz [rline 0.0 0.3 1] [rline 0 1 10] [param 1.0]
wavout zz "test.wav"
computes 10
omfg, I'm catching up with tonight's Techtonic in the archives, Cory Doctorow is talking about his new book and ways Amazon is evil, among other things. I'd never heard about all the audible audiobook scam stuff. Amazing.
The section on how Spotify's scam works is pretty clarifying, too:
On Friday, April 21st, @pixouls is leading a QTBIPOC zine-making workshop at Iffy Books! You can fill out a pre-workshop survey and/or register for the event on our site: https://iffybooks.net/event/raise-the-sun
Coming up tonight on Techtonic with @markhurst: Cory Doctorow, author of 'Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back.' In his book Doctorow writes about how Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory and Mark will discuss what went wrong, and what we can do about it. Tune in to #WFMU / wfmu.org at 6pm EDT.
"FUCK DEBT": I burnt documents related to old medical debt & used the ashes to spell out that message.
One of the instruments in David Tudor's Rainforest (for some of the performances) was this cute little chimney brush called Hedgehog
<3
"Fragments does indeed sound like a pathologically weathered fragment of a once healthy and full electronic music." - You Nakai, Reminded by the Instruments
Aw, the only recording that exists of Fragments is in the David Tudor Papers collection at the Getty Research Institute. Hope that gets rescued from a box on a shelf one day.