Introducing Fantastic Voyage - Portable Cosmic Studio - Virtual 4 Track Tape w/ Effects

Introducing Fantastic Voyage from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

From the maker of GleetchDrone, GleetchlabX, Berna 2, and Radioaktivnost.

"Imagine a 4 track studio with integrated realtime infinite stretching, glitch, tape echo, filter, luscious reverb, modulators and looper!

Use it with guitars (include VST hosting for amp simulation and other processors), microphones, synths, anything!

Onstage as a live tool or while travelling as a portable studio for amazing experiments.

While home, you can still travel in the outer/inner space!

Release Fri March 27th, h22.00 GMT

at giorgiosancristoforo.net"

Theme from Hilversum Television - EMS Synthi A

Theme from Hilversum Television from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

http://www.worldtv.com/hilversum_tv

Introducing Berna 2.0 - 1950s Electronic Music Studio

Introducing Berna 2.0 - 1950s Electronic Music Studio from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"Part of my artist activity includes creating experimental music software.
Today I am proud to announce the coming of Berna V2.0, a major upgrade.

Berna 2.0, not only has a new stunning and realistic UI but it includes also new processors like the Comparator, an 18 bands 1/3 Octave FilterBank and an 18 Bands Vocoder, plus new Tone Burst Generator, two Dynamic Modulators, new Reverb, new Frequency Shifter (with modulator input), new FM Oscillator (with modulator input) and 8 new Complex Oscillators!

Berna is a software simulation of a late 1950s electroacoustic music studio. Oscillators, filters, modulators, tape recorders, mixers, are all packed in a easy-to-use interface with historical accuracy.
Explore serial music, musique concrète and tape music or create new strange sonic worlds with instruments inspired by the greatest studios of the early days of electronic music.

Are you ready to meet the grandfather of the synthesizer?

http://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net"

The Arcane Pillar

The Arcane Pillar from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"The Arcane Pillar is an hermetic musical instrument based on Neural Networks and Western Esotericism.

To make it work, one must answer a number of enigmas, collect sounds of fire, water, air and earth, and finally balance them with different processes designed at each grade.
No user manual is given, but the γνῶσις that unlock the enigmas, is quite well documented on books and in the web if one knows how and what to seek...
Cheating is futile, for only understanding the enigmas presented, their meaning and consequences, it is possible to put in practice the knowledge and set in motion the inner logic of the instrument...

Currently in Alpha state."

Note this is slated as a software release, not mobile/iOS/Android.

Altair Sequencer Project - How I did it - #00 hello world

How I did it - #00 hello world from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"The altair says hello to Max!

The idea is simple: to make music with the Altair 8800
The first commercial Personal Computer made in 1975.
In the following episodes I will
• Interface the Altair with MaxMSP via serial port
- programming a drum machine in assembly
- program a generative orchestra in assembly and or MBASIC
- Explore OSC routing to other software (Processing), upd comms.
• Interface the Altair with an analog synthesizer: a Buchla Music Easel by using arduino and a breadboard.
The quest for controlling Max will be the first step, later I will dedicate the project to analog synths.
I'm going to post every episode here and on my website (giorgiosancristoforo.net)
I will explain every single byte and strategy of programming and share the Max patches for Windows and Mac OS.
so that 8080 enthusiasts could replicate the whole process.
It will be also a nice opportunity for electronic musicians to understand simple and fun microprocessors' programming techniques.
Any help, comments and critics from retrocomputing and assembly lovers, is more than welcome.
more here:
giorgiosancristoforo.net/2015/02/15/music-with-the-first-pc-ever-the-ultimate-8-bit-machine/"

大雨-Ooame: Cattywampus

video upload by Giorgio Sancristoforo

2024 Album Teaser
https://ooame-music.bandcamp.com/

Luna (teaser #1)

Luna (teaser #1) from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"A new software? installation? music artwork?
Discover it soon at gleetchplug.com"

QUADRIVIUM as Controller for the Modular Synthesizer

QUADRIVIUM as controller for the modular synthesizer from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

Quadrivium is also a software MIDI controller, you can use the orbital data to control your hardware or software synthesizers with MIDI!
12 Moons for 12 Control Changes that you can assign inside the software.
Connect it to your modular synth with a MIDI USB cable or MIDI interface!

Available at www.giorgiosancristoforo.net

Follow-up to this post.

STOCKHAUSEN - SPIRAL

STOCKHAUSEN - SPIRAL from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"An extract of my interpretation of Karlheinz Stockhausen's SPIRAL (1968)

The shortwave radio is coming from the internet thanks to the Wide Band SDR made available to the public by the University of Twente (Netherlands), all the rest is performed at the modular synthesizer Make Noise.

The performance still is not perfect, the helmet does not make life easy while reading the score and using the synthesizer, nevertheless this recording is a step ahead in my understanding of this piece.

I hope you will enjoy it.
Please take with some humour.

Helmet made by FBFX London
Costume by Barbara Livecchi
The Score is published by UNIVERSAL Editions"

Ongaku Demo and Tutorial

video upload by Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Ongaku is the sister panel of the infamous Bento japanoise box.
This panel has different features including LPGs, delays and reverb. With Ongaku you will create new sonic worlds from cavernous soundscapes to vibrant generative pads in the style of Eno’s, to unpredictable noises or super bongo action west coast style… It is so organic that it feels alive. See for yourself how the probabilistic clock can create amazing strange rhythms."

https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net

Compusynth Demo and Tutorial

video upload by Giorgio Sancristoforo

Follow-up to this post.

"Compusynth is a modular synthesizer that takes inspiration from the west coast paradigm and the mighty Altair8800, one of the first personal microcomputers available to the hobbyists in the mid 70s.

With its peculiar 128 bit sequencer, oscillators, filters, efxs and processors, Compusynth is a powerful sonic laboratory thanks to its generous resources and flexible routing with 1596 patch points!

Available at giorgiosancristoforo.net
(Windows version planned for January 2023)"

Altair 8800 as a noise/glitch generator

Altair 8800 as a noise/glitch generator from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"Dumping the memory of the Altair to unleash the monster Id of the machine."

Rehearsing JOHN CAGE - VARIATIONS VI

Rehearsing JOHN CAGE - VARIATIONS VI from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

For a Plurality of Sound Systems (Buchla200e, Radio, Tape Recorder, Max/MSP)
Score available at Edition Peters

The score is made of symbols printed on transparent plastic sheets,
the symbols set the number of available and possible sound systems
(a sound system is made of speakers, generators and components such as filters, modulators, amplifiers).
The symbols are dropped on a white sheet painted with a straight black line.
The axis of each symbol states whether the component or generator must change
or stand still (% of amount of change). Some changes are done manually, some other are made by control voltage. Amplification and surround pan are controlled (following the score) by max/MSP.
At a certain point the radio went outside the FM band, making just clicks and pops... :)

Recorded in binaural simulation, use headphones.

Update: The performance:

John Cage 100 Anniversary Performance: Variations VI

YouTube Published on Sep 10, 2012 by toborexperiment

"My performance of Variations VI at the John Cage Centennial Celebration
SEPT. 5th 2012 at Triennale Design Museum, Milano, Italy"

Luna3: Jim's Gonna Work It Out

video upload by Giorgio Sancristoforo

Out now on https://Luna3.bandcamp.com

Gleetchlab 4 Tutorial 3: TAMS Synthesis - triple axis modal synthesis

Gleetchlab 4 Tutorial 3: TAMS Synthesis from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"Triple axis modal synthesis demonstration using acoustic samples.

TAMS process input sounds sources using a vast and growing library of peculiar resonators in dozens of materials, including gold, platinum, sapphire, uranium, ruby, silver and more...

http://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares/gleetchlab-4/"

John Cage 100 Anniversary Performance: Variations VI

John Cage 100 Anniversary Performance: Variations VI from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"My performance of Variations VI at the John Cage Centennial Celebration
SEPT. 5th 2012 at Triennale Design Museum, Milano, Italy

Special thanks to:

Sandro Mussida
Elio Marchesini
Alessandra Novaga
HurlaJanus Ensemble
Inkyung Hwang
Christian Schmitz
Luca Rullo
Lorenzo Villa
Staff @ Triennale di Milano"

EMS Synthi & Buchla

Berna 3 Teaser 3

video upload by Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Using the High Precision High Pass filter to create envelopes with a pulse generator and a modulator."

Giorgio Sancristoforo's Full Blotter for Windows Released

Now available at giorgiosancristoforo.net.

The Mac version was announced back on February 10. Details and demo video previously captured there.

Summer Bundle Sale at Giorgio Sancristoforo's Gleetchlab

https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/

The offer ends on September 21st, 2022

Take the chance to get them all at a fantastic price with 30% discount!

MAC OSX BUNDLE includes 10 software:
Ongaku
Bento
Berna 3
Gleetchlab 2021
Points and Lines
Quadrivium
Substantia
Gleetchdrone
Fantastic Voyage
Encoder

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DNA Sonification with Waldorf Iridium

video upload by Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Just another test of my DNA software with the Waldorf Iridium, Soma Cosmos and Hologram Microcosm."