organica ANS synthesizer

video upload by psilosamples

"music, art and fun collection is coming!! check psilosamples.xyz !
minimalist photoelectronic lofi music fun loops and free study recorded live textures, melodies and atmospheres adventures composes from images to pure frequencies,
created in the virtual ANS synthesizer ,Hi Fi soundloops and generative art in the frames digital poster made by psilosamples"

eurorack image synthesizer | Spectral Synth Scanner | ENG

video upload by ilia Osokin

"Spectral Synth Scanner is a unique prototype of an instrument from an electronic laboratory in France."

Note the first "image synth" would be the ANS from 1937 to 1957. Also see this post. More recently, there have been a number of ANS based creations including Alexander Zolotov's Virtual ANS for iOS, Photosounder, and Silhouette eins. A search for them on the top right of the site will bring up additoinal posts on each. You can sort the resutls by date or relevance. You can also check out the ANS label below for all ANS realated posts in order.

Forms - Screen Ensemble

Forms - Screen Ensemble from Playmodes Studio on Vimeo.

This one reminds me of a virtual ANS meets tracker. Details and pics follow:

"Forms -Screen Ensemble- is a generative visual music jukebox. Driven by chance and probability, this automata creates endless, unrepeatable graphic scores that are immediately transformed into sound by means of sonification algorithms. Images become sound spectrums, making it possible to -literally- hear what you see. The dream of Kandinski.

Each screen of this networked ensemble plays a particular instrumental role: Rhythm, Harmony or Texture.

Performed by this trio of automats, a visual music symphony evolves over time giving birth to unique sonic landscapes that will never be repeated again: from tonal ambient music to raging rhythms, surreal electronic passages or dance-floor beats.

Forms - Screen Ensemble was presented at 2020's edition of Ars Electronica festival in Barcelona, thanks to a grant given by NewArtFoundation, Institut Ramón Llull and Hangar.org.

+info: https://www.playmodes.com/home/forms-screen-ensemble/"

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What's new in Photosounder 1.10

Published on Feb 8, 2020 Photosounder

Try the demo at https://photosounder.com/download.php

Process of translating images to sound similar to ANS, scroll down for the original machine. You can also find Oramics there. A search for ANS will bring up additional posts featuring endless demos of Virtual ANS for i0S and more.

Improvisation for Virtual Ans, Otis and Una Corda

Published on Nov 13, 2019 junklight

"I've not made much music of late - happy to let things gestate and present themselves when ready. However things are starting to brew!

This is part of an improvisation in preparation for a longer piece I'm working on - which hopefully will see the light on this channel soon"

Virtual ANS 3 image sonification demo by Roikat

Published on Jun 16, 2019 Roikat

"A demo of spectral synthesis using Alexander Zolotov's iOS app Virtual ANS 3, using a number of images I thought might produce interesting results. Click "SHOW MORE" below for links to more Roikat videos. Thanks for viewing!"

Looks like the black and gold SH-101 at the start.

Playing with Virtual ANS and Sugarbytes Factory, using STAELLA for the visualisations

Published on Jun 6, 2019 pantsofdeath

"I know, I don’t usually post my stuff here, it usually goes over to my music site, but i had a three month block cleared this week by the release of Virtual ANS 3 and I wanted to showcase the otherworldly sounds that come out of that thing. Also on this track is Ruismaker (Bram BOS) and patterning 2."

Virtual ANS Photoelectronic Synth Now Updated To AUv3 - Live Stream

Started streaming 2 minutes ago The Sound Test Room

See this post for details on the new release of Virtual ANS 3.

Virtual ANS 3 for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, & Android

Published on Jun 2, 2019 Alexander Zolotov

"Demo of the new Virtual ANS 3.0 spectral synth. Now with MIDI mapping, polyphonic synth mode, AUv3, and many other new features!"

via http://warmplace.ru/soft/ans/

"Virtual ANS is a software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS - photoelectronic musical instrument created by Evgeny Murzin from 1938 to 1958. The ANS made it possible to draw music in the form of a spectrogram (sonogram), without live instruments and performers. It was used by Stanislav Kreichi, Alfred Schnittke, Edward Artemiev and other Soviet composers in their experimental works. You can also hear the sound of the ANS in Andrei Tarkovsky's movies Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker.

The simulator extends the capabilities of the original instrument. Now it's a full-featured graphics editor where you can convert sound into an image, load and play pictures, draw microtonal/spectral music and create some unusual deep atmospheric sounds. This app is for everyone who loves experiments and is looking for something new.

Key features:
unlimited number of pure tone generators;
powerful sonogram editor - you can draw the spectrum and play it at the same time;
any sound (from a WAV file or a Microphone/Line-in) can be converted to image (sonogram) and vice versa;
support for MIDI devices;
polyphonic synth mode with MIDI mapping;
supported file formats: WAV, AIFF, PNG, JPEG, GIF;
supported sound systems: ASIO, DirectSound, MME, ALSA, OSS, JACK, Audiobus, IAA."

SILHOUETTE - Visual to Analog Audio Synthesizer with Dual Flight Style Joysticks & Monitor Display

Published on Jan 2, 2019 Pit Przygodda

Kind of a modern day ANS, or Oramics. Also see Virtual ANS for iOS.

"silhouette". A video-to-audio-synthesizer by Pit Przygodda (Prototype 2018).
Infos: www.silhouette-synthesizer.de

6-voice, seperate tuning and modulation, analog-filter, FX. SILHOUETTE trains itself to become a really extraordinary sound-scape-machine!

Technique
s i l h o u e t t e is a software-based synthesizer, that creates sound by using greyscale-data chosen from a picture file.

This is done in real-time.

At the moment, it is programmed under the Pure Data programming environment.

Data-sources:
- real-time-pictures/motion-pictures (camera)
- picture-files
- motion-pictures (films)

Oscillator:
The sound is produced by transforming an area of greyscale-data into sound-data.

Windows:
You have a screen, where you see the camera-picture/picture/film you have loaded in.
You have 2 data-windows within the loaded picture to chose a visual area where you like to extract sound-data.
The 2 windows can be changed in size and position individualy and be modulated by LFO, EG, KBD-follow, audio-waveform or manually in realtime.
Their audio-output is routed anolog to their x/y-position in the picture to coordinates in a quadrophonic sound-system in the performance-room.

Silhouette
So it is possible that the outline of a silhouette is analog to your audio-waveform.
Therefor it is necessary that the silhouette-shape is strictly black and white.
This was the main idea at the beginning of this project:
That you act visually directly IN the waveform.
This is done very sensually by acting on the light-table in front of the camera.
I think about giving that technique a name: "silhouette-synthesis".

Quadrophonia
Since summer 2018 I am building a hardware. It has 2 joystick-controlled-data-windows inside the main-screen which let you move 2 audio-waves analog to their coordinates in the main-wondow inside a quadrophonic space (screen corner-left/top > speaker-front/left; screen corner-right/bottom > speaker back/right etc.).

Spectral DnB in Virtual ANS (live with iPad)

Published on Nov 11, 2018 Alexander Zolotov

"Virtual ANS is a software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS - photoelectronic microtonal/spectral musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1938 to 1958: http://warmplace.ru/soft/ans"

Virtual ANS - Saw Wave Import and Playback

Published on Nov 2, 2018 Sysex|Studio

"Imported a saw wave sound with filter cutoff and resonance into Virtual ANS for iOS to view it’s spectrogram. Playback is lofi and dithered compared to the source because the app only has so many pixels to represent the audio. It’s cool to see the harmonics related to the fundamentals nonetheless."

A Composition with VCV Rack for Virtual ANS

Published on Oct 20, 2017 TheKlirrfaktor

"Just fun ;)"

iTunes: Virtual ANS - Alexander Zolotov

Quantum DJ loves cats

Published on Oct 4, 2016 Alexander Zolotov

Quantum DJ

Published on Oct 4, 2016 Alexander Zolotov

http://warmplace.ru/hard/qdj

Alexander Zolotov is also the man behind Sunvox, Virtual ANS, PixiTracker and other iOS apps.

NightRadio Quantum DJ experimental quantum noise machine

Published on Mar 10, 2015 Alexander Zolotov

"Experimental quantum noise machine by NightRadio: http://warmplace.ru/hard/qdj"

Alexander Zolotov is the man behind numerous apps including SunVox, Virtual ANS, and PixiTracker. Curious if this is his first hardware creation. I added a new NightRadio channel to track moving forward.

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Spectral Techno #3 (new music genre?)

Published on Feb 17, 2015 Alexander Zolotov

"Made in Virtual ANS spectral synth: http://warmplace.ru/soft/ans
Virtual ANS is a software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS - photoelectronic microtonal/spectral musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1938 to 1958.
The app is cross-platform and available for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and OSX."

iTunes: Virtual ANS - Alexander Zolotov

Spectral Techno

Published on Feb 15, 2015 Alexander Zolotov

iTunes: Virtual ANS - Alexander Zolotov

"Made in Virtual ANS spectral synth: http://warmplace.ru/soft/ans
Virtual ANS is a software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS - photoelectronic microtonal/spectral musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1938 to 1958.
The app is cross-platform and available for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and OSX."

Nature - Oscillator. Live #1

Published on Aug 14, 2014 Alexander Zolotov

New video from the developer Alexander Zolotov.

"The world around us is an endless source of visual information, the flow of the fractal code of life. Nature - Oscillator is one of the attempts to translate this code to sound, using spectral synthesis algorithm of the Virtual ANS engine (software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS). The program continuously reads the image from the camera and interprets it as the spectrum of the sound.
http://warmplace.ru/soft/nosc"

iTunes: Nature - Oscillator - Alexander Zolotov

Nature Oscillator for iPad Released

Published on Aug 13, 2014 Marcus Padrini

You might remember the first video posted here. It is now available via iTunes: Nature - Oscillator - Alexander Zolotov

Curious how this differs from PhonoPaper's free mode.

"The world around us is an endless source of visual information, the flow of the fractal code of life. 'Nature - Oscillator' is one of the attempts to translate this code to sound, using spectral synthesis algorithm of the Virtual ANS engine (software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS). The program continuously reads the image from the camera and interprets it as the spectrum of the sound. And you can easily control the scanning curve: its amplitude, type and speed.

[ How to use ]

Start the app and you will hear the sound immediately. Try to move the camera and you will hear the sound change.
If there is no sound for some reason - try to reduce the Quality parameter in the app menu.

How to change the scanning curve:
* amplitude: touch the screen and slide up or down;
* speed: touch the screen and slide left or right;
* type: use the slider at the top of the screen.

Any sound can be recorded by pressing the REC button on the right side of the screen."

iTunes: Nature - Oscillator - Alexander Zolotov

Nature - Oscillator

Published on Aug 13, 2014 Alexander Zolotov

"The world around us is an endless source of visual information, the flow of the fractal code of life. Nature - Oscillator is one of the attempts to translate this code to sound, using spectral synthesis algorithm of the Virtual ANS engine (software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS). The program continuously reads the image from the camera and interprets it as the spectrum of the sound.
http://warmplace.ru/soft/nosc"

iTunes: Nature - Oscillator - Alexander Zolotov