Centralized and Decentralized Control

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"How can we use a synthesizer to explore ideas of centralization and decentralization in social organization, economics, and power relations?

00:00 The 'Perfect Synthesizer'
01:15 Hierarchy
02:01 An Experiment
03:17 Centralization
04:11 Decentralization
05:44 Coercion in Decentralized Systems
06:22 The Decentralized Market and Marx's Coercive Laws of Competition
07:45 Dialectics
08:01 Collectively Governed Regulator"

Surfaces, Layers, Spaces - Towards a Continuum of Sound

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

Also see Jaap Vink and Recursive Sound, and additional episodes here.

"I embarked on the electro-acoustic project Infra in the autumn of
1978, and completed it in the summer of 1979, working with
occasional interruptions at the Institute of Sonology at Utrecht University.

In contrast to earlier work partly aimed at providing a constantly
new view of a field of acoustical events which was as homogenous as possible, my main idea here was to assemble as wide
a range as possible of electro-acoustical sounds under the
aspect of cybernetic regulation, thus generating a continuum
integrating certain timbre characteristics of instrumental, vocal
and electronic categories, even previously unexplored ones.
One of my premisses was to reveal the oscillation curves of a
material in certain resonance ranges, using random-controlled
processes. The sonorous profile was extended step by step into
allophonic sound phenomena possessing the property of
merging with one another.

This music can be termed 'abstract'. Perhaps concepts such as
surfaces, layers, spaces, constellations, transitions and
reflections will help the listener to understand it.

Roland Kayn, 1979

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00:00 Jaap Vink and Roland Kayn, Utrecht, 1977-1978
01:22 Makro
02:32 Infra
05:27 Patreon Pitch
05:42 Building our Grand Cybernetic System
07:13 The Recursive Ring Delay Network
10:02 The Concrete Cybernetic Mixer
12:58 An Acoustic Kickstart
14:33 Surfaces, Layers, Spaces"

Jaap Vink and the Institute of Sonology

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"Jaap Vink was a technician and teacher at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht from 1967 until his retirement in 1993. During that time he pioneered numerous techniques for the analog realization of dense electronic sounds and was a key collaborator of Roland Kayn in the 1970's and 1980's. Vink was always in search of sounds that would break the inherent periodicity of electronics, and found that feedback was the key.

This video is the third and last in a mini-series looking at Vink's techniques which were documented by the fantastic retrospective double LP on Recollections GRM. We look at two patches which are structured around two voices arising from interrelated trigger sequences.

Jaap Vink Recollections GRM LP:



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00:00 Introduction
00:47 Gottfried Michael Koenig
01:30 Philips Prospective 21e Siècle
04:14 The Institute of Sonology
05:14 Patreon Pitch

FIRST PATCH - DSC ONE

05:29 Looking at the Diagram
06:36 What is the T-DSC?
09:42 Building the First Branch
14:53 ...and the Second Branch
15:27 Refining
17:44 Listening

SECOND PATCH - DSC TWO

19:49 Decoding the DSC
21:05 A Little More About the NCOM
22:54 Branch A / Branch B
24:10 Sorting out the Rest
27:10 Refining
30:03 Listening"

Jaap Vink and Cascading Multiplication

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"Jaap Vink was a technician and teacher at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht from 1967 until his retirement in 1993. During that time he pioneered numerous techniques for the analog realization of dense electronic sounds and was a key collaborator of Roland Kayn in the 1970's and 1980's. Vink was always in search of sounds that would break the inherent periodicity of electronics, and found that feedback was the key.

This video is the second in a mini-series looking at Vink's techniques which were documented by the fantastic retrospective double LP on Recollections GRM. We look at two patches which are structured around cascades of ring modulators - creating many sidebands and dense tonal clusters out of simple sources.

Jaap Vink Recollections GRM LP:



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[video timeline]
00:00 Jaap Vink's Patch Diagrams
01:33 Cascades of Ring Modulators
03:27 Patreon Pitch

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Jaap Vink and Recursive Sound

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"Jaap Vink was a technician and teacher at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht from 1967 until his retirement in 1993. During that time he pioneered numerous techniques for the analog realization of dense electronic sounds and was a key collaborator of Roland Kayn in the 1970's and 1980's. Vink was always in search of sounds that would break the inherent periodicity of electronics, and found that feedback was the key.

This video is the first in a mini-series looking at Vink's techniques which were documented by the fantastic retrospective double LP on Recollections GRM."

00:00 Kayn in Utrecht
01:11 Jaap Vink's Background
02:37 Nonperiodicity
03:40 Objets Distants
04:39 Decoding the Diagram
06:09 Delay, Feedback, and Ring Modulation
09:36 Understanding the Feedback System
12:52 Building the Patch
14:30 Giving the System a Kickstart Like the Fonz
16:41 Inserting a Resonant Equalizer
18:53 Adding the Comparator Control Scheme
20:33 Letting It Breathe...

Jaap Vink Recollections GRM LP:



Ring-Modulated Feedback in BEA5

video upload by MrSonology

"This video shows a feedback patch that includes a delay (Studer A80 tape recorder), a ring modulator, a reverb (Lexicon PCM 90) and a modified Bruel & Kjaer third-octave filter. The technique was developed by Jaap Vink in the 1970s at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht and can be heard in works by many composers, particularly those of Roland Kayn.
This video is dedicated to Jaap Vink and was recorded and edited by Siamak Anvari."

Previously:

Serge Cybernetics - Reverb Ring Modulator Feedback (Continued)

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"an expansion and longer exploration of the jaap vink reverb ring modulator patch featured in the last video (cybernetics V). no talking in this one and very minimal intervention on my part - letting the sounds organize themselves"

Simultan, Léo Küpper, and Cybernetic Expansion

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"In 1970 Roland Kayn moved to the Netherlands and began working at the Instituut voor Sonologie in Utrecht with two very important people - Jaap Vink and Léo Küpper. There he began to refine and expand his ideas of cybernetic music and his first large scale piece was Simultan - realized primarily in Bruxelles using Léo Küpper's home built GAME (Générateur Automatique de Musique Electronique) synthesizer.

In this video we look at some of the ideas behind Simultan and use those principles to create multiple simultaneous processes which influence each other.

00:00 Kayn Enters the 1970s
01:04 Arrival at the Instituut voor Sonologie
01:27 Sound for Multiple Rooms
02:52 Léo Küpper and the GAME
04:39 Pure Electronics
05:28 Building Three Simultaneous Processes
09:00 Processes Influence Each Other
10:50 Processes Influence How Processes Influence Each Other...
13:09 Entanglement
16:58 Another Session

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The Birth of Roland Kayn's Cybernetics

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"Between 1966 and 1969 Roland Kayn made three pieces at the Studio di Fonologia at RAI in Milan entitled 'Cybernetics I/II/III'. These pieces were Kayn's first attempts at realizing his concepts of cybernetics using electronics and are a fascinating hint at what is to come later in his career as these ideas get fleshed out even further.

In this video we look at the background of these pieces and walk through the techniques Kayn used for 'Cybernetics III' which more or less involve an automated mixing machine to combine pre-recorded concrete sounds and then cybernetic regulators to influence and make decisions about how the piece evolves.

00:00 Introduction
01:14 Roland Kayn at RAI, Milan
03:02 Cybernetics I-III
05:55 The Making of Cybernetics III
08:27 Kayn's Concrète Experiments
09:53 Patreon Pitch
10:00 Preparing our Sound Sources
12:38 Making an Automatic Switching/Mixing System with Comparators
15:41 Introducing the Cybernetic Element
18:35 High-Frequency Tracker
19:27 Adding Further Elements
22:40 Weird Birdsong...

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Talking Serge, cybernetics & techno with Chris Miller (Gunnar Haslam/La Synthese Humaine)

video upload by Signal Sounds and Tom Churchill

"Tom and Luke are joined by a special guest for this episode of Signal Flow: Chris Miller, aka Gunnar Haslam, La Synthese Humaine (and many, many other aliases). Chris was a leading light in the early 2010s New York techno scene, and has gone on to use the Serge modular synthesiser to explore analogue computing, cybernetics and experimental sound design through his revered YouTube channel, La Synthese Humaine. He has also worked at Moog, where he produced and presented a superb series on the basics of synthesis, is one half of the excellent Base Camp Beta podcast with Shawn O’Sullivan, and is an all-round good egg with a wealth of knowledge on everything from experimental music to science, philosophy and economics. Hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did!"

You can find Chris' La Synthèse Humaine videos featured here, and his Synthesizing with Moog videos here.

You can find his label, Critique of Everyday Life here.

https://www.signalsounds.com

Stockhausen, Telemusik, and the Gagaku Circuit

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

In 1966 Karlheinz Stockhausen went to Japan. Fascinated by the Noh theatre, Sumo, and tea ceremony traditions he found there, he made use of the facilities of NHK public broadcasting to make Telemusik. The piece centers around Stockhausen's so-called 'Gagaku Circuit' - a double ring modulation process which attempts to take two separate sounds and intermodulate them.

More about Telemusik: https://stockhausenspace.blogspot.com...


0:00 Stockhausen In Japan
3:58 Gagaku Circuit and Intermodulation
6:40 Musical Esperanto
7:48 A Quick Channel Update
8:38 Ocora Records
9:11 Double Ring Modulation
13:17 Building the Gagaku Circuit
17:26 Nomades Du Niger
19:27 Introducing the Intermodulation
21:30 Gagakuing Gagaku
22:51 Gagaku and Voice
24:59 Musique Kabiye and Voice
25:55 Musique Kabiye and Contraluz

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Stockhausen's 1972 Lecture:

Lecture 6 - TELEMUSIK (1972) Karlheinz Stockhausen

video upload by Tomás Olano

"Duration: 58'27"

Given at Essex University on May 7th 1972.

http://tomasolano.com

The substance of the work consists of recordings of a variety of traditional ethnic musics from around the world, together with electronically generated sounds. More than twenty of these recorded fragments are intermodulated on tape with electronic sounds and with each other to produce 'odd hybrid-types'—modulating, for example, 'the chant of monks in a Japanese temple with Shipibo music from the Amazon, and then further impos[ing] a rhythm of Hungarian music on the melody of the monks. In this way, symbiotic things can be generated, which have never before been heard'."

Rungling in the Continuous and Discrete

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

RIP Rob Hordijk

0:00 Rob Hordijk
2:56 A Culinary Aside
5:59 The Blippoo Box
6:46 The Rungler
9:44 Sounds of the Blippoo Box
13:31 Building an Analog Shift Register
17:54 Making it Rungle
21:28 The Circular Transformation of Continuous into Discrete and Back Again
23:02 Comparators, PWM, and Approximating the Blippoo Box Sound
24:40 Twin Peak Resonator and Subtracting Filters
26:48 Blippoo Box Extensions
29:49 ...
30:57 A Conclusion

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Continuous and Discrete Motion

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

In this video we explore the relationship between continuous and discrete signals, and observe how playing with that tension in the context of a feedback loop leads to chaotic behavior.

0:00 Intro
2:14 Dialectical Analysis of Continuous and Discrete Time
4:03 Smooth and Stepped Generator
7:03 Mixing Continuous and Discrete Time Together

Check out my Patreon here: / lasynthesehumaine"

Self-Organization in Circuits and Society

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

In this video we look deeper into the idea of Self-Organization and how to create sounds that David Tudor might describe as 'free to be themselves.'

0:00 Intro
1:32 Self-Organization in Sound
4:05 Self-Organization in Society
5:09 Slef-Organization in Language
6:40 Patching a Self-Organizing System"

Feedback Networks in the Style of David Tudor

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

In this video we look at the work of David Tudor and how he created dense networks of feedback in an approximation of a neural network.

0:00 Intro
1:37 David Tudor
4:53 Neural Synthesis

New release 'Sumatra Method' from myself here:"

https://critiqueofeverydaylife.bandcamp.com

Signal Flow Podcast Ep3: Playing live with Serge & GRM Tools Atelier (in quad)

video upload by Signal Sounds and Tom Churchill

"In this episode, Luke breaks down his setup for a recent live performance at GLOSS (the Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound), which involved GRM Tools Atelier, Max for Live, and a two-panel Serge Paperface system (hand-built by Tom). We also round up a few new arrivals in the showroom, including the UDO Audio DMNO, ASM Hydrasynth and Shakmat Modular Ballista Blast, and share a few recommendations.

Get in touch with questions, feedback and suggestions via signalflow@signalsounds.com

Some of the gear discussed:
https://www.signalsounds.com/udo-audi...
https://www.signalsounds.com/asm-levi...
https://www.signalsounds.com/shakmat-...

Recommendations
La Synthèse Humaine: / @lasynthesehumaine6932
Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid: https://lorisssarid.bandcamp.com/albu...
Elori Saxl & Henry Solomon: https://elorisaxl.bandcamp.com/album/...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:21 UDO Audio DMNO
03:22 ASM Leviasynth
04:44 Fairfield Circuitry Placeholder
10:11 Shakmat in-store & Ballista Blast
13:58 Luke on live performance
37:18 Tom on live performance
46:08 Recommendations & outro"

Sound Design with Cybernetics: Interference and Inversion

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

New Uses for Old Circuits Series

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

In this video we look at the al-Jabr (الجبر) patch - a patch that injects inverted signals into the feedback loop to tame chaotic behavior, and uses the rate of change (derivative) of a signal as a cybernetic regulator."

Sound Design with Cybernetics

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

New Uses for Old Circuits Series

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

In this video we look at the al-Muqābala ( المقابلة) patch, which combines everything we've discussed so far into a playable system where nonlinear feedback loops are pushed and pulled via cybernetic regulation. A garden of forking, bifurcating paths..."

Cybernetic Regulation for Melodic Sequences and Missile Interceptors

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

New Uses for Old Circuits Series

"There is no way out. Lie and wait, lie still and be quiet. Screaming holds across the sky. When it comes, will it come in darkness, or will it bring its own light? Will the light come before or after?"

Logistic Maps and Analog Computing with Serge

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

New Uses for Old Circuits Series

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

In this video we look at the textbook example of a nonlinear and chaotic system - the logistic map. We explore how to use the Serge as an analog computer to take numbers and multiply, add, and subtract them, and further how to create a discrete feedback sequence from them.

Check out Greg Zifcak's website and his example of the Logistic Map: https://www.gzifcak.net/cefms/"

Nonlinearity And Feedback

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

New Uses for Old Circuits Series

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

In this video we look at simple feedback systems and explore linearity and nonlinearity. We see how basic audio feedback through a linear system (basically a volume knob) can accentuate or attenuate what is already present in a sound. But sending the feedback through a nonlinear system transforms the sound into something else entirely."

New Uses for Old Circuits 04: Studies in Linear and Nonlinear Systems

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

New Uses for Old Circuits Series

"New Uses for Old Circuits is a series looking at linear and nonlinear processes in the modular system.

In this video we get right to the heart of the matter and discover what defines a linear system (and therefore what defines a nonlinear system). Linear systems are systems that obey the laws of homogeneity and superposition, whereas nonlinear systems are ones that break these laws."