Astro Pi / Tim Peake inspired piece created for the Brighton Modular Meet

Published on Jun 30, 2018 The Mad Music Machine

'We were thrilled to be invited to run a demonstration of the Mad Music Machine at the Brighton Modular Meet.

We thought it would be a good idea to create a patch using waveforms generated from our Astro Pi data with samples we created from the European Space Agency commentary of Tim Peakes flight from Earth to the International Space Station.

We used the Synthesis Technology WaveeEdit programme to create the wavetables which on the E370 are taken from the pattern formed by the humidity data recorded in our experiment. The E352 uses a sample of the engine noise of the Soyuz TMA-19M which on which Tim Peake travelled - this is modulated in cloud mode to give the 'engine' sounds.

As the data was generated on a Raspberry Pi so we thought it would be appropriate to use Sonic Pi for for the sequencing :)

Her Caitlin jams with that patch :)"

Update:

Caitlin's live performance at the Brighton Modular Meet 2018

Published on Jul 2, 2018 The Mad Music Machine

"We had a fantastic time at the Brighton Modular Meet and met some wonderful people.

Caitlin enjoyed performing this and was very happy with the audience's reaction at the end!"

A Merry Christmas from Caitlin and the Mad Music Machine.

Published on Dec 19, 2017 The Mad Music Machine

"Caitlin explains how we use the Moog Mother-32 to control and mix the outputs from the E352 Cloud Terrarium.

She then uses this patch, together with the Hexinverter Mutant Drums and the Roland System-1m, to play a special Christmas tune using Sonic Pi MIDI sequencing."

Blokas Pisound with Sonic Pi

Published on Oct 15, 2017 The Mad Music Machine

"We have had the Pisound for a while but hadn't got around to testing it until prompted to do so my a discussion on in-thread.sonic-pi.net.

Here we try it with the Code Club 'Musical Round' Frere Jacques project, firstly with just Sonic Pi audio, followed by MIDI sequencing our Mother-32, System-1m and Mutant Drums."

Pisound / Sonic Pi at 200 BPM

Published on Oct 15, 2017 The Mad Music Machine

"Just leaving this running as part of a performance test of Sonic Pi with the Pisound."

We shortened the note lengths on our Sonic Pi random music algorithm.

Published on Aug 26, 2017 The Mad Music Machine

"We tweaked our random music algorithm and left Sonic Pi and the Mother-32 playing together.."

See the Sonic Pi label below for more.

Randomly generated melodies on Sonic Pi seeded by CC MIDI data from Nektar LX25

Published on Aug 22, 2017 The Mad Music Machine

"We use the 'Snack Box' joystick to select BPM and Drum patterns and use the drum pads to shift patterns (just the snare for now) to align with the randomly generated melodies on Sonic Pi"

Sonic Pi, Mother-32, System 1m, Mutant Drums play Goldfrapp

The Mad Music Machine
Published on Aug 14, 2017

"Today we added a 3rd MIDI channel to create 3 totally independent MIDI controlled voices to add to the Sonic Pi audio,

Add to test it we coded a simple Goldfrapp inspired loop"

Mother-32, Mutant Drums, Sonic Pi and a simple 'White Stripes' sequence

The Mad Music Machine
Published on Aug 8, 2017

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Caitlin's joy at creating her first Mother-32 patch from scratch

The Mad Music Machine
Published on Aug 8, 2017

"We had originally created a simple Sonic Pi loop based on the opening bars from the White Stripe's 'Seven Nation Army' - the Mother-32 was first patched to sound similar to the original song - but Caitlin had other ideas! :)"

Too funny. So awesome!

Sonic Pi V3 and the Mother-32

The Mad Music Machine
Published on Aug 2, 2017

"A family day out in Brighton led to us stumbling across the GAK musical instrument store. Inside we tried out various equipment before deciding that the Moog Mother-32 would make a great additional voice for the Mad Music Machine.

Here's our first test of it with Sonic Pi V3"

And:

Mutant Snare & Mutant Hihats added to the Mad Music Machine


"We added the Mutant Snare and Mutant Hihats to the Mad Music Machine today - but soon realised we didn't have enough patch cables to connect everything up the way we wanted!

So we modified our existing Sonic Pi drum machine code to work with external MIDI and ran the drum modules through the System-1m to the Trigger Out.

We then set up a simple System-1m patch to use the 4 MIDI notes as they passed through to the drum modules"

Teaching Kids About Synthesis with Sonic Pi

via Raspberry Pi

"Sonic Pi is a programming environment that allows you to make sounds. Which is a very dull way of saying that it’s a way to build your own synthesiser from scratch. Sonic Pi, and the associated teaching and learning materials, are open and free..."

via Kalfelz on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Getting KS3 Students Coding with Music and Raspberry Pi Demo (sonic pi)

Published on Sep 23, 2013 MissPhilbin·17 videos

http://www.ictwithmissp.co.uk

"A quick demonstration of some students work mid way through the Sonic Pi Scheme of work developed by @SamAaron and @MissPhilbin."