Cosmic Rays Music - Prototype Realtime Score and Sequencer Software

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Working at the prototype of my cosmic rays realtime score and sequencer software.
The software is connected to a muon particle detector that sends realtime data to the computer. The ADC values are converted to MIDI notes as well as fingering for my ancient greek kithara (κιθάρα). I will use this software and detector for my forthcoming ambient music performance κόσμος (Cosmos)."

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.

Quadrivium Orbital Synthesizer-Controller (sneak preview)

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"12 moons orbiting around the four giant gas planets as modulation sources? Yes! Orbital data from Jan 1 2020 to Jan 1 2030 (hour by hour) are used in the forthcoming Quadrivium synthesizer to modulate oscillators, filters, delay and create incredible spacey soundscapes.
Did I mention that you can also use the moons' orbits to modulate your MIDI gear? :D
Soon available at https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net"

Giorgio Sancristoforo is the man behind the Gleetchplug line of software synthesizers and sound machines.

Ultrasound detectors and Encoder. Hide messages in your music.

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Did you know? You can use any bat detector or ultrasound microphone to listen to the messages that you hide in your music with Encoder!"

https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net

Follow-up to this post.

Hide messages in your music with ENCODER

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Hide messages in your music (48KHz Aif or mp3) with ENCODER, and decode them with (free!) DECODER.
Available this week at https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net"

antimatter annihilation and modular synth

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"For the first time in history, antimatter is used for music.

All the sounds of this piece are triggered by positron annihilation from a Na22 source. For the task I've programmed a custom gamma spectroscope that outputs the annihilation gamma peaks at 0.511MeV, these pulses are sent in realtime to a MIDI to CV converter.

A positron is the anti-particle of the electron, having positive charge instead of negative. Positron emission is a special case of beta decay. Inside the unstable nucleus, a proton is transformed into a neutron, and in the process, the nucleus emits a neutrino and a positron.

As soon as the positron encounters an electron on its path, they attract each other and finally annihilate, transforming all their mass into energy (2 entangled gamma photons at 0.511MeV), following E=mc^2.

I'll film the process in the next weeks.
Use headphones for best listening experience.

Sound generation: Shuttle Endorphin.es synthesizer.
MCA software written on Cycling '74 Max/MSP

Dedicated to the memory of Iannis Xenakis."

My DNA controls a modular synthesizer - rs6025

Published on May 30, 2020 Giorgio Sancristoforo

"In this video the F5 gene of my chromosome 1 (Exons and introns) is used to program a modular synthesizer (Endorphin.es Shuttle System).

Blocks of 16 codons are used to control 16 parameters of the synthesizer like frequency, amplitude, filters cutoff, envelopes, FM modulations etc.

The experiment is a continuation of my sci-art research on my whole genome, which started at the EU's Joint Research Centre in 2019.

This particular gene was chosen due to SNP rs6025 in position: chr1:169,519,049.

Direct live recording on Zoom H5, without edit or efx added."

GleetchDrone

GleetchDrone from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"GleetchDrone released!

A new stand-alone music software for drones, ambient and experiments for Apple Mac.

Download the demo here"

"GleetchDrone is a MacOS software for drone, ambient and experimental music.

It features 8 oscillators, 8VCAs and 8 AR Envelopes, a Double Stochastic Clock Generator, Double LFO, Double Random Generators, Mixer, Two LP Filters, Tape Echo and Saturation/Distortion."

Using Substantia with Contact Microphones

Published on Apr 20, 2020 Giorgio Sancristoforo

"A quick example on how to use contact microphones with the Substantia Physical Modelling Lab."

See this post for additional details on Substantia.

Introducing Substantia - Electroacustic Physical Modeling Laboratory

Introducing Substantia from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"Substantia (latin: substance), is an electroacustic physical modelling laboratory with hundereds of models. It is a modal synthesis software with integrated euclidean sequencer and recorder.

Many modal synthesis tools, so far, have a limited number of options and models. Some instruments give you just inharmonicity and dumping controls over a bank of resonators, some other offer few models like a pipe, a plate, a box, and usually a very small selection of materials: metals, plastic, wood…

Substantia has 16 different models and 23 materials, ranging from Aluminium to Nickel, Glass, Marble, Sapphire, Platinum, Gold, Nylon, Uranium and more, for a total of 368 resonant models. (The list will grow with updates).

For unparalleled precision, Substantia uses 100 Resonant Band Pass filter for each voice, for a total of 800 filters (8 voice polyphony).

You can excite the resonators with contact microphones (2 for stereo sound), samples, or white noise and experience a new exciting way to make digital sounds with human gestures. Substantia is a powerful tool to create new hyper-real sounds, from amazing bongos to luxurious glassy and metallic textures.

A must have for experimental musicians, lovers of new frontiers of sound.

Release: April 19th 2020

h12PM CET

www.giorgiosancristoforo.net"

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"

New Form of Digital and Analog Sound Synthesis Based on Tropical Algebra

This one is in via Giorgio Sancristoforo, the man behind GLEETCHLAB/GLEETHCHPLUG, and BERNA 2.

"I've release our paper on Tropical Additive Synthesis, a new for of analog or digital sound synthesis based on Tropical Algebra created by me with the mathematician Cristiano Bocci."

Details from Giorgio Sancristoforo's website where you can find a PDF download of his paper on the new synthesis method.

"Tropical additive synthesis is a new form of digital and analog sound synthesis that uses Tropical Algebra.

You are free to use this paper for commercial (software and hardware) musical instruments, both in digital or analog form, at the following conditions:

1) The module must display a “trop(x[n])” logo with Times New Roman font (italic) in white, over a red background (color hex code: 84120a)
2) The user manual must credits the authors: “trop(x[n]), tropical additive synthesis ©2018 Cristiano Bocci and Giorgio Sancristoforo”

The number of oscillators can vary between 2 and 10. But this is just a suggestion.
If you need help with the oscillator’s development, please drop me a line and I’d be glad to help you."

You can find a PDF download of the paper on Tropical Additive Synthesis on Giorgio Sancristoforo website here.

New in forthcoming GleetchlabX 5.2

New in forthcoming GleetchlabX 5.2 from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"Two classics of noise and glitch music for the forthcoming V5.2:

Loop Synchronized Double CD Skipper and Loop Synchronized EMF Disturbance!!

Available next week at giorgiosancristoforo.net"

Introducing GleetchlabX

Introducing GleetchlabX from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

NEW IN GLEETCHLAB X:

Full Midi Mapping

Polyphonic MIDI TAMS

Polyphonic MIDI Tropical Synthesizer

Retuner

Lowpass

Fluffy Clouds

External Analog Clock

8 Channel Surround

Try it at giorgiosancristoforo.net

On radioactive music 1: Ray of Light MCA/s

Published on Feb 11, 2019 Giorgio Sancristoforo

"In this first chapter I illustrate my work on the sonification of radioactivity using gamma spectrometry.
Ray of Light (Muti Channel Analyser/Synthesizer) is a music software written with Max8 and uses a modified version of the FFT analysis and 512 sinusoidal oscillators. The software analyses the pulses coming from a Gamma Spectacular SG-1100 Pro Spectrometer with a 1.5" NaI(Tl) scintillator.

The work was presented for the first time, at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra - Italy, during the Datami A.i.R. Residence on February 24th 2019."

radioactive

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/"

Soundmit 2017 Update - Final Details on Event Are In

The final details on Soundmit 2017 are in. Soundmit is the evolution of the Torino Synth Meeting, the largest synth event in Italy. The following are some details on the scope of the event:

"THE NUMBERS

The first edition of the Soundmit - International Sound Summit, the natural evolution of the Torino Synth Meeting, which has proved to be up to expectations, involving more than 180 industry operators, 800 visitors, over 100 workshop participants and a soldout for the talk held by the 3 sponsoring Universities, ended on Novembre 5th 2017.

THE EXHIBITORS

With more than 90 Brands exposed and exhibitors from all over Europe and not only, we had the presence of Nori Ubukata from Japan and Keen Association from Moscow, Soundmit is confirmed as the only Italian event highly specialized in electronic music instruments. Fertile land for exchanging ideas and for the birth of new partnerships as well as new friendships.

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Gleetchlab4 tutorial 2: turn any sound into a lushous drone

Gleetchlab4 tutorial 2: turn any sound into a lushous drone from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"The Vb.Stretch module (thanks to Volker Böhm), is the super stretching tool you need to transform any sound into a wonderful pad/drone. In this short example an electronic track is turned into a space drone."

Gleetchlab 4 Demo 1

Gleetchlab 4 Demo 1 from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"First official video of Gleetchlab 4 in action.

v4.0.4 is for sale now on the website (www.giorgiosancristoforo.net).

Original acoustical samples by

Jacopo Bianchi

Federico Conti

Matthias Girardi

Giulia Guerra

Ciro Martignetti

Yuri Padashifard"

The Spider Web Coil tutorial for the Komaelektronik's Field Kit

Published on Apr 29, 2017 Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Build a spider web coil and use it with the Field Kit.
Tune in electromagnetic fields, add some harmonizer+reverb, drone into the wormhole.

Download here the 3D printer model and the Max7 file:
http://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/d...

Further instructions for spider web coils:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Spide..."