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Showing posts with label Meng Qi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meng Qi. Show all posts

Sunday, November 17, 2024

一年后,玉刻有了新琴(我也)


video upload by 合成少数派 Synthesis Minority

"Meng Qi on timelessgarden Horizon / Yukes on Soma Flux"

Also see:

New Horizon Synth Analog Ecosystem for Sound and Gesture

SUPERBOOTH 2024: Timeless Garden - Horizon Experimental Synth


via Timeless Garden

"Horizon celebrates a world of ambiguous dualities~~ harmony/chaos, smooth/stepped, intuitive/practiced, manual/automatic. Built around an invertible heirarchy of pinged-filter cores, and a resonant garden of delays and filters. A rapid and responsive playing surface, smoothly blurring between textures or precisely sculpting a spectral landscape. Honed musicians and freeform experimentalists alike will find their own personal expressions within.

At centre, two Mountains of pinged filters, cross-coupled with smooth and stepped frequency modulation. These pings flow into a resonant filterbank and stereo delays, guided and recirculated by Tide sliders. The filterbank follows the path of 5 Bird sliders, collecting resonances from a playful just-intoned scale generator. Between these worlds flow Currents controlled by the touch surface, capable of wrangling chaos into pure tones or latching into sequences for otherwise busy hands. As the Tides ebb and flow, sequence & delay times are modulated in rhythmic/harmonic steps transforming relationships and shifting priorities.

Sitting proudly at the centre of a performance, or nestled into a larger setup with Eurorack CV i/o. Process external sounds, or use global feedback for an added layer of unpredictability."

Sunday, November 03, 2024

"Timeless Discrepancies" ✨⏳✨ Meng Qi Wing Pinger & Folktek Aether


video upload by Stephano Gavilanes

"New piece composed around an improvisation recorded with the Folktek Aether and Meng Qi Wing Pinger synths👌🏽

Folktek Aether's audio signals going through Meng Qi's Wing Pinger, and Aether's touch CV outputs controlling Q and Cut Off on the Wing Pinger, both instruments feature banana jacks.

Performance and recording by Stephano Gavilanes© Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved."

Friday, October 04, 2024

Meng Qi Wing Pinger

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via this listing

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

In Beijing's golden autumn, an impromptu of refreshing natural(synthetic) sounds 🍂 🎛️


video upload by 合成少数派 Synthesis Minority

"A jam session with the traveling artist Passepartout Duo.

孟奇 Meng Qi: Horizon Prototype
Nicoletta Favari: Digital Chromaplane Prototype
Christopher Salvito: Analog Chromaplane

㊗️ Congratulations to my good partner Annqi on her wedding
㊗️ Happy birthday to Trent
㊗️ Happy National Day"


You can find additional Meng Qi Horizon posts here

You can find additional KOMA Elektronik Chromaplane posts here.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Meng Qi Wing Pinger + Eventide H90 // Shadows and Lights


video upload by Dexba

"The Wing Pinger is not easy to process: it sports two outputs which are... double mono?
Not really, and I will show you why soon in the upcoming tutorial (long in the making, I know).
But that's also why I decided to keep one pedal, and that pedal is the H90, which allows for extensive customization of the inputs, and it's modular in its own way.
I created this new preset for the Eventide H90, called Noise Glue, which is a combination of a 4-head delay + tape saturation to keep everything cohesive, and I think it complements beautifully the sound echoing war chants and drums on the battlefield, juxtaposed to the few plucks of melodic rain here and there.
It is always very hard to share a recording of the Wing Pinger, because the lengthy drones and ear-massaging FM sounds do not translate well as a format on YouTube or as a recording: it really is an instrument to be touched and felt."

Sunday, July 07, 2024

小羽二代 Wingie2 的一百零一种玩法(第二集)


video upload by

Click CC in the player controls for subtitles.

"小羽玩家是一个热衷于分享演奏和交流玩法的群体,但我们疏于整理,上一次做小羽玩家的集锦还是2年前。这一次终于又做啦,以后也欢迎大家投稿,让合少的平台变成大家的舞台,让我们的声音都被听见!"

Googlish:

"Xiaoyu players are a group that is keen on sharing their performances and exchanging gameplay, but we have neglected to organize them. The last time we made a collection of Xiaoyu players was 2 years ago. This time we finally did it again. In the future, we welcome everyone to contribute, so that Heshao's platform can become everyone's stage and let our voices be heard!"

Saturday, May 18, 2024

SUPERBOOTH 2024: Timeless Garden - Horizon Experimental Synth


video upload by sonicstate

"At Superbooth 2024, Sonic State got a sneak peek at the Horizon*, a new collaborative instrument by *Trent from Timeless Garden *and the developer of the Wing Pinger. The Horizon* features a resonator system built around the Wing Pinger device, with delays, a filter bank, and a touch sequencer/play surface to tie it all together. The unique design of the Horizon allows for exploration and inspiration, offering both melodic and experimental sound possibilities.

Trent demonstrated the capabilities of the Horizon, showcasing its ability to create strange and interesting sounds through feedback, FM modulation, and stepped modulation effects. The touch sequencer enables users to create melodies with variable step lengths and pitch quantization controlled by sliders. With analog signal processing and rich bucket brigade delay sound, the Horizon offers a unique sonic experience for musicians looking to push the boundaries of traditional synthesis. Stay tuned for the release of the Horizon in 2024, with an estimated price range between one and two thousand US dollars. For more information on the Horizon visit the link below:

https://timeless.garden/" Note the bottom of the page notes Meng Qi + Whimsical Raps.

Follow-up to this post.

"Horizon celebrates a world of ambiguous dualities~~ harmony/chaos, smooth/stepped, intuitive/practiced, manual/automatic. Built around an invertible heirarchy of pinged-filter cores, and a resonant garden of delays and filters. A rapid and responsive playing surface, smoothly blurring between textures or precisely sculpting a spectral landscape. Honed musicians and freeform experimentalists alike will find their own personal expressions within.

At centre, two Mountains of pinged filters, cross-coupled with smooth and stepped frequency modulation. These pings flow into a resonant filterbank and stereo delays, guided and recirculated by Tide sliders. The filterbank follows the path of 5 Bird sliders, collecting resonances from a playful just-intoned scale generator. Between these worlds flow Currents controlled by the touch surface, capable of wrangling chaos into pure tones or latching into sequences for otherwise busy hands. As the Tides ebb and flow, sequence & delay times are modulated in rhythmic/harmonic steps transforming relationships and shifting priorities.

Sitting proudly at the centre of a performance, or nestled into a larger setup with Eurorack CV i/o. Process external sounds, or use global feedback for an added layer of unpredictability."

Thursday, May 16, 2024

New Horizon Synth Analog Ecosystem for Sound and Gesture


video upload by 合成少数派 Synthesis Minority

Saturday, May 04, 2024

Meng Qi Wingie 2 & Synthstrom Deluge // The process IS the performance!


video upload by Dexba

"The Wingie 2 by @MengQiMusic changed my musical approach (for good).
It made me embrace the environmental noise, it made me start thinking a bit outside of the "synthesizers are for synthwave" box, and its portability, its cuteness, made me more willing to open up and breathe a bit more.
It's hard to explain, but after getting a Wingie I started to reconsider microphones, I got an Arbhar, I got a Befaco i4, I repaired my OP1 Field mic, I even sang into my modular (and you've seen that video already), all things I would have found sacrilegious in the recent past.
The fun part is that all those other instruments cost more than the Wingie, and yet the Wingie is still the tool that forces me to plan more a recording, while also requiring me less effort in doing so.
Love it.
Here it is being controlled by the Deluge by Synthstrom, in the new OLED version, which finally gave me the appeal and strength to study it better, and put it to good use. And I've owned a Deluge since 2018 😄
I hope you'll enjoy this little moment of calmness, my musical way to cope with the incredibly noisy neighbour I have, through resonation."

Saturday, April 06, 2024

quad optomix strikes


video upload by Ebotronix

4ms QCD with Expander.
Intellijel 3x Planar 2
Make Noise 2x Optomix, 2x Mimeophone.
MengQiMusic DPLPG.
Jouranalogue Filter 8
Tunefish Modular 4x µ Braids with Renaissance alternate firmware,
2x µ Peaks, 2x µVeil,Kings, Sheep (Tides V1)
2x Ornament and Crime , #2 with Teensy 4.0! Dorian Scale.
Mutable Instruments Shades, 4x Ripples.
Verbos Scan and Pan.
Shakmat Aeolus Seeds.
16n AtoVproject Faderbank
2x Strymon Cloudburst ~ Midi CC by 16n Faderbank!
6.04.2024
video # 2361

Sunday, March 03, 2024

Meng Qi Wing Pinger & Chase Bliss Mood mk2 // Meditation through pings, an intimate process


video upload by Dexba

"Playing with the Wing Pinger by @MengQiMusic is a meditative practice. 🪷
While it looks simple (and beautiful) on the outside, the balance required to achieve something to be proud of is considerable.
That’s the reason why, even though I play frequently with this instrument, I rarely record with it, because it feels like being naked and vulnerable.
The right output (the lower note) is going back into the left input, in order to get a mono output that can go into the Mood mk2, since the pedal didn't handle well the double mono nature of the Wing Pinger.
I hope you'll enjoy the meditative nature of this video with me!"

Sunday, January 07, 2024

2024, The First Ambient Performance: Life like a "Reverse Journey"


video upload by Meng Qi

"The previous year-end performance was recorded, and this time, the performance was particularly enjoyable. When I listened to the music again, it reminded me of the name 'Reverse Journey.' It originally referred to inns and hotels. 'Heaven and earth are the temporary lodgings of all things, and time is the passing guest of a hundred generations." It means that heaven and earth are the temporary lodgings of all things, and time is the passing guest of a hundred generations.

The synthesizer's arpeggio sets the background, like a young boy setting off on a journey of learning. The melodious Kalimba melody represents the consistent and brief joy in the early part of the story.

However, my friends, we are all familiar with the story of the "hero's journey,' aren't we? It's about the call, the test, friends, enemies, caves, hardships, the return, and resurrection. This is the story told in the later part of the music."

Sunday, December 17, 2023

The Great Hapax Experiment Vol. 1 - Squarp Hapax sequencing loads of stuff and Cocoquantus improvs


video upload by -CALC-

"Sat with this one quite a bit for quite a bit.... kept it unlisted for over a year but after some revisits thought maybe its time to put it out there. Still stand by what I initially thought, its a "Curate's egg... Good in parts". Squarp and Coco were still newish at the time of this jam so still finding the feels.

This is what I thought of it back then:

I got a new brain!

Here's a full 45 minute noodle with the incredible Squarp Hapax front and centre. To say this is the most powerful hardware sequencer I have ever got my hands on is a total understatement.

WARNING This pretty experimental jam is not for the faint hearted in certain sections. Focussing on Hapax and the CocoQuantus it gets noisy and out there but that's what I love these days.

It was improvised and live-sequenced over a couple of initially formed sequences.
There are good bits but also some really bad sections in the middle too. I considered cutting these out but that would be a hard edit and they eventually do settle down.
I'd say the worst bits are:
20:30 - 21:26 (shitty idea to try and record a kick bass line without tuning the kick!)
28:39 - 29:42 (combo of not realising that the 1010 Blue box was turned down and having a few moments of forgetting how the CocoQuantus worked... oh and a pesky Buchla sequence I forgot to stop!)

Hapax is firing off and controlling a ton of stuff in the room:
Circuit Rhythm
Ciat Lonbarde CocoQuantus (clocking the loopers)
Nord Drum 3p
Rossum Electro Assimil8or (through CV.OCD)
Meng Qi Wingie 2
Novation Summit - also acting as a controller keyboard for everything in the set-up
Buchla 208C
Norns (running Plonky Script for multisamples)
Just Friends in polysynth mode
Vongon Polyphrase
Vongon Ultrasheer
Mutable Instruments Beads
and some dodgy singing
All connected via Hapax's MIDI Outs and a Conductive Labs MRCC"

Saturday, December 09, 2023

Meng Qi - Wing Pinger MInijack

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via NOISEBUG Reverb

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"COMES WITH A PROTECTIVE CARRYING CASE.Meng Qi Wing Pinger

The Wing Pinger from Meng Qi is an analog filter percussion desktop synth with internal feedback capabilities that can take you from gentle plucked tones to snarling feedback in an instant. The range of characters afforded by the Wing Pinger have to do with its shift register-based feedback FM routing, in which the output of each filter can modulate the cutoff of the other. Lest you think the Wing Pinger is a noisemaker and nothing more, the feedback FM can be dialed back to zero, giving you a playful, characterful dual filter-plucked modal resonator instrument to ping with the touch keyboard or even external audio. At sufficient resonance and feedback FM settings, the Wing Pinger can take on a life of its own, while touch control and robust MIDI and CV implementation make it versatile node in your setup regardless of its parameter settings. This version of the Wing Pinger comes with mini jacks for the CV I/O, making it a great companion for eurorack modular.

Wing Pinger Features

Dual filter/resonator instrument with internal feedback frequency modulation loop
Touch keyboard and finely tuned parameter ranges for expressive control
MIDI and CV I/O
Audio input and output"

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Ambient Jam - Soma Labs Lyra-8/Meng Qi Wingie 2/Chase Bliss MOOD/Korg SQ1


video upload by Kuro Kasetto

"A litlle ambient jam using the Lyra-8 as the main sound source.
Wingie 2 processes the signal from the Lyra-8 while the Sq1 sequences certain notes in the Wingie 2, the Mood adorns the sound."

Sunday, October 15, 2023

I'll Carry the Universe with Me - An Autumn Performance Recording


video upload by Meng Qi

"Almost two years ago, in a fall similar to the present, when the dried leaves swirled and danced in the air, a performance video was recorded.

At this moment, I find myself in a different place, with an imprecise location, perhaps somewhere on the mainland of China. On my desk is an unfamiliar poetry collection titled "I'll Carry the Universe with Me."

He said, 'lt's best to have the gift of listening.'

'She played a piece, not the subtle sound of a narrow stream, nor the distant echoes of tall trees. It's best to have the gift of listening, better without a piano, just to listen to the natural sounds of things.'

mengqimusic.com"

Monday, August 28, 2023

Generative CLOSE ENCOUNTERS road trip with norns “pixels”, Wingie MKii, Bastl Kastle Drum & TX-6


video upload by Arman Bohn

"Devils Tower is on the horizon. Pixel static notes and MIDI data. The Kastle excites the Wingie.

Alien welcome melodies played backwards and forwards, but probably never in the right order. Only 1970s practical effects here. Or is it all just CG?"

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Wingie2: New alternate tuning features in firmware v3.1


video upload by Dave Seidel

"Meng Qi's Wingie2 resonator is a unique musical device with many uses. As a user of microtonal tunings, I decided to try to add some microtonal abilities to the firmware, which is open source. I am happy to say that Meng has accepted my work, and it will be part of the v3.1 firmware release.

This video is meant to provide an overview of the new features, including details on usage, and a couple of demos. I hope you find it helpful, despite my primitive video skills. For more information, including details of each tuning and a ToushOSC template for switching between tunings, please go to https://mysterybear.net/projects/wing...

0:00 Intro
2:19 Selecting a tuning manually
4:39 Selecting a tuning using MIDI
5:28 Audio run-through of the tunings
10:27 Demo using Meta-Slendro tuning
12:59 Demo of tuned caves

Here is the v3.1 release:
https://github.com/mengqimusic/Wingie..."



New features
Alternative Tunings (eight types)
Global mute/unmute in Cave mode

This one is in via brian comnes.

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Meng Qi Wing Pinger & OP1 Field // Welcome to my synthetic dojo


video upload by Dexba

"I finally managed to bring the Wing Pinger to the new house, and as soon as I plugged it in, I remembered why I got it in the first place: its range from mellow, realistic birds, to harsh and complex territories, in a single twist of a knob.
This time it can also make friends with the OP1 Field, acting as a recorder and FX for the Wing Pinger, in a somewhat small and portable experimental setup (there would be so much to sample!).
After I recorded this, I laid down for a while, simply enjoying the ever-changing soundscapes, and it was a very much-needed moment of bliss."

Sunday, July 02, 2023

The Soothing Ambience Of The French Riviera (in a Box)


video upload by HAINBACH

"French artist Gilou loaned me his Boxed Sandpit to play with. It is lovingly crafted hybrid of electro-acoustic sound and digital control. Using beach sand, a rake, a shovel and smooth stones as MIDI controllers, it is possible to create some very chill sounds. Check out his work: https://instagram.com/gilou._"
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