Quintette

YouTube Published on May 16, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Quintette is a collective work achieved with a group a four students of Lycée Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France : Laure Varichon, Noé Charmet, Clément Poignet, Kiefer Wiessler. During the year 2011-2010, they joined a course I created about philosophy of aesthetics and electronic music. The result of our work is this composition in five movements for Virus TI, Microkorg and Doepfer, to which we added parts for voices and piano. The voice parts are the free theater like interpretation of two famous texts by Emmanuel kant and Friedrich Nietzsche about the question of genius. The voices and the piano were sometimes transformed with the GRM Tools. The five films were created by the four students and I to illustrate the notion of creation in a free way, through the process of a painting's creation followed until the end of the fifth movement. A bonus consisting in one of my own composition was added to the Quintette. The whole work was shown for the first time in Lycée Edouard Herriot on friday 11 May 2012, to a large audience during the Week of Arts of this high school. I want to thank the four students for their friendly involvement and beautiful work in this project !"

The movements and synths used:

1st Movement [Doepfer for intro, Access Virus Ti for majority of piece, MicroKORG solo at end]
7:15 2nd Movement [All MicroKORG]
11:50 3rd Movement [Access Virus Ti - appearance at 17:06]
21:25 4th Movement [All Moog Filtatron]
26:35 5th Movement [Access Virus Ti]
33:57 Bonus [Access Virus Ti]

Pittsburgh Modular Foundation Introduction Video

YouTube Published on May 17, 2012 by amphonic

http://pittsburghmodular.com/foundation/

"The Foundation is a fully modular, eurorack, analog synthesizer. A patchable system styled after the great monosynths of the past with no hardwired signal path or fixed voice architecture to restrict creativity. Driven by two wide range analog oscillators the Foundation produces a huge, warm sound that can't be matched by digital or VST synths. All of the elements of a classic voltage controlled synthesizer are available as an open, patchable, modern synth."

Update: Ships in 30 days at $1695 MSRP.

Analogue Solutions Semblance

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corners

corners from tehn on Vimeo.

"quick demo of corners, a grid-controlled patch which lets the user play with gravity and friction. velocities, positions, and border crossings are mapped to sound parameters and events.

monome grayscale sixty four using max/msp 6, ableton 8, and aalto.

free and open source: docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=app:corners"

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KORG mono/poly

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Tiptop Audio Featured In Call of Duty: Black Ops II Sound Design

Pictured: Sound designer Shawn Jimmerson with his Tiptop Audio Modular (pic via gameover.gr - Googlish here).

The image below is via VentureBeat where you'll find a full post.

"Brian Tuey (pictured middle), audio director at Treyarch (the Activision Blizzard game studio that is making Black Ops II), said in an interview with GamesBeat that 'going into the near future with this game meant something completely different.' Making new sounds is all part of trying to bring innovation to a game series such as Call of Duty which has had many iterations that took place in the past."

To the right (Brian's left) is Chris Cowell, lead sound designer at Treyarch, and to the left is Shawn Jimmerson.

Regarding the device Brian is tinkering with, "The team was resourceful and relied on cheap creations [Not the Tiptop system! :)]. They created an oscillator (pictured in the middle) that you could touch and short-circuit to produce different kinds of crazy sounds."

http://www.tiptopaudio.com/

Sequera - Next Era Sequencer on Indiegogo

Sequera from juno on Vimeo.
Update: new video below.

via Indiegogo where you can pre-order Sequera and help fund the project.

"This is a post-sequencer project named as "Sequera" the sequencer for the next era that focuses on flexibility of exploring music sequencing and midi processing, plus hint of hardware sequencers.

Started by juno(me) from a year ago as a hidden project partnering with cocoa programmer: Tom Jeffries, graphic, aerosol artist: Sano. Now it’s on the middle way for the first Mac version and keep testing whenever alpha versions come up.

Current alpha-version does or allows...
- entering notes for 32 steps max
- entering notes with computer keyboard
- selecting desired track with computer keyboard
- and a few other short cut key assignments
- displays note entry
- plays notes
- randomizes notes
- changing tempo
- changing number of steps to be loop-played

First Mac version is willing to involve...
- velocity entry / change
- mute each tracks
- midi note number select
- gate time set

Next coming features...
- timing adjustment for each notes by computer keyboard
- more flexibility for the steps to be played or not to be played
- compatible with midi commands all around
- pitch transition
- real-time performance features, midi-effects

The advantage of using Sequera

Entirely, Sequera allows user to work on crating sequence extremely fast like a hardware sequencer. This also means, user can try, explore and modify the sequence as more as and as free as possible with using same working time.

It’s not much focusing on making up entire song, but specialized in short length composition with highest possible scope. Ideal for finding unique melody, experimental grooves, or impressive and comprehensive sound designing."

See http://www.indiegogo.com/sequera for additional info.


Sequera HD 720p from juno on Vimeo.
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Update: video is now here.