An album made up entirely of sounds that I sampled from records which I bought between the late 1990s and the early 2010s. Each track consists of eight samples recorded in an Elektron Digitakt sampler. I used the Digitakt to create the music patterns as well. To keep the patterns simple the rule was to trigger each sample just once per pattern.

My goal was to create an atmosphere of the minimal electronics records that I started to buy around 2000 and that I still listen to a lot. The sound of Mille Plateaux, ~scape, Force Inc and record labels like these.

It turned out being an album of the kind of music that I like to listen to, and at the same time represents a cross section of my musical tastes over the years.

10 Medium Scalps

09 Lamps Miscued

08 Impulsed Macs

07 Dilemmas Cusp

06 Cupids Lemmas

05 Claps Mediums

04 Capsulised Mm

03 Campus Smiled

02 Camus Simpled

01 Amiss Clumped

This is the first demo using a piece of Java software software I wrote: The Euclidean pattern generator. It generates polyrhythms based on a mathematical algorithm. In this demo the pattern generator sends MIDI to Ableton Live, where I did some arranging and automation and exported the result as audio.

This track accompanies an article on my website about the software:
http://www.hisschemoller.com/2011/euclidean-midi-patterns

To get an impression here’s a demo video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbYdExy3jQ


Euclidean Patterns Demo 1

This is the second demo using a piece of Java software software I wrote: The Euclidean pattern generator. It generates polyrhythms based on a mathematical algorithm. In this demo the pattern generator sends MIDI to an Elektron Machinedrum UW. I then recorded the Machinedrum’s audio output.

This track accompanies an article on my website about the software:
http://www.hisschemoller.com/2011/euclidean-midi-patterns/

To get an impression here’s a demo video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbYdExy3jQ

Euclidean Patterns Demo 2

This track is a demonstration of a web app I recently started to build that generates music or rhythms in a sort of mechanical machine-like way.

Imagine rotating parts that are connected to each other like a clockwork or cogwheels in a machine. Everything that happens in that machine, all rotations, movements and interactions can be captured and used as data.

This machine is not a real machine, it's a simulation in software, and all the data can be converted to MIDI events that are sent out to connected MIDI hard- or software . To create music with.

I  had this idea some time ago when I was at the Stedelijk Museum and looked at an artwork by Jean Tinguely. I decided to try and build it as a web app, an app written in Javascript that runs on a web page in the browser.

The first version of the app is the proof of concept. To try out if the plan is possible at all. And it is. This track is made with is. It's totally chaotic and the app is still at its most basic, but the possibility is proven.

Please see the article on my website for more information about this project:

http://www.hisschemoller.com/blog/2016/generating-midi-physics/

Here's a screengrab video on Youtube that quickly explains the application:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEybraz6wfw

Thanks for listening :-)

Box2D to MIDI POC Demo

This track is a demo for the newest version 1.2 of the Euclidean Pattern Generator. Read the full article about this version on my website:

http://www.hisschemoller.com/blog/2017/euclidean-pattern-generator-1-2/

The application is free and open source. Please find the files on GitHub:

https://github.com/hisschemoller/Euclidean-Pattern-Generator

And here's a short introduction video about the app and version 1.2:

https://youtu.be/ErQ-z_zKdbQ

This is the last version of the program written in Java. I actually wrote the software five years ago, but never got around to properly finish it. Now I did, and I tested it with this track.

A new feature in version 1.2 is the ability to start and stop patterns with MIDI notes. For this track there's two way MIDI communication between Ableton Live and the Euclidean Pattern Generator:

One MIDI track in Ableton Live sends MIDI notes to the pattern generator. The notes start and stop patterns. Each Euclidean pattern is triggered by a different note pitch, so all notes together form a song arrangement.

The rhythms that the patterns generate are also MIDI notes. They are sent back from the Euclidean Pattern Generator to Ableton Live on different MIDI channels. So that each pattern plays it's own instrument on a separate track in Ableton Live.

Euclidean Pattern Generator 1.2

A few months ago the local Albert Heijn supermarket was redesigned. The new checkout counters now each produce their own beep sound when an article is scanned. Each machine has its own pitch, its own frequency of beep sound. I noticed that all the scan machines are tuned to actual musical notes. The whole checkout area plays in tune!

This is a piece of music made from a recording at the supermarket checkout area, where the customers' choice of products is the composition and the checkout assistants are the performing artists.

Albert Heijn Jodenbreestraat

Demo song for the Volca-Freesound app. 

This song is made entirely with random samples from https://freesound.org that the Volca-Freesound app chose, downloaded and transferred to the Volca Sample. I sequenced the Volca with Ableton Live and a Retrokits RK-002 cable, because I think the Volca's own sequencer is too basic to compose a complete song with.

Volca-Freesound is an online app to transfer random sounds from the freesound database to the Korg Volca sample.

Open the app here:
https://hisschemoller.github.io/volca-freesound/

Read about the app on my website:
https://www.hisschemoller.com/blog/2018/volca-freesound

Or watch a video tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5x5eEtuTM

The app is open source, find the source files here:
https://github.com/hisschemoller/volca-freesound

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These are the samples from Freesound I used in this track:

Korg Electribe Emx2 - Kick » electribe-kicks slice 79.wav
https://freesound.org/people/soneproject/sounds/260490/#comments

Roland SH-2 - Rezzy Saw Vel » Roland SH-2 - G3
https://freesound.org/people/modularsamples/sounds/310910/

Gol____ » rhdes_1.WAV
https://freesound.org/people/penetrermind/sounds/405835/

sw_SwitchOffOn.wav
https://freesound.org/people/jppi_Stu/sounds/117651/

music box sounds » spieluhr1.wav
https://freesound.org/people/baujahr66/sounds/157264/

CompMusic-IITM-Mridangam-Stroke-Dataset-E » Thi_E_052
https://freesound.org/people/akshaylaya/sounds/230810/

Dwight » 45_MPH.wav
https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/86628/

Hackey Sack Larry » hackeysacklarryb.wav
https://freesound.org/people/NoiseCollector/sounds/7609/

Akai Timbre Wolf » Akai Timbre Wolf C Saw Bass 03.wav
https://freesound.org/people/acollier123/sounds/409044/

Volca-Freesound Demo Song

Demo song for Music Pattern Generator v2.1

A demo song for the new Music Pattern Generator. The rhythms in the track were made with the app. Especially the second half after the piano break shows how easy it is to make constant rhythm variations by using a MIDI controller to change the patterns in real time.

The app now works online, in the browser (Chrome and Brave only):

https://hisschemoller.com/mpg/

Desktop installers for Linux, Mac and Windows are available too:

https://github.com/hisschemoller/music-pattern-generator/releases

Read the full article about this version on my website:

https://www.hisschemoller.com/blog/2019/music-pattern-generator-v2-1/

An overview and tutorial on my site:

https://www.hisschemoller.com/blog/2019/how-to-use-music-pattern-generator/

A tutorial video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4JAhvl5FaA

The app is free and open source. The files are here:

https://github.com/hisschemoller/music-pattern-generator

Sound sources I used in the track:

Background city noises are the sound of the dance performance video “Calico Mingling” by Babette Mangold from 1973, which you can watch here:
http://ubu.com/film/mangolte_calico.html

The crispy noises halfway the track are polystyrene foam filling chips recorded by Freesound user dobroide:
https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/421963/

Woodblock sound in the second half by Andi Roselund (Sangwha Comm):
https://freesound.org/people/ultradust/sounds/167385/

Drum sound by Hubert Michel:
https://freesound.org/people/hubertmichel/sounds/40187/

Fender Rhodes Mark II samples for the piano in the middle are a Freesound pack by Tim Kahn:
https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/packs/3957/

The piano melody itself is a variation on the beginning of “You Call It Madness” by Clare Fischer, recorded in 1970:
https://www.discogs.com/Clare-Fischer-Great-White-Hope/release/4358665

Music Pattern Generator v2.1

Music for a video I made that combines video montage and 3D programming. Recordings of the Amsterdam Leidseplein square are projected on animated 3D objects.

See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gj0m6oH0o4

The title refers to the conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn who made a  video artwork around 1970 that was filmed on the same spot. After I saw that video at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam I went to the location to see what it looked like now. In the months afterwards the idea for this music video took shape.
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Samples from other people that I like to thank:

405207__drotzruhn__female-humming
https://freesound.org/people/drotzruhn/sounds/405207/

439504__drotzruhn__humming-c-d-a-for-alexggqs
https://freesound.org/people/drotzruhn/sounds/439504/

518616__taman21__guitar-notes
https://freesound.org/people/taman21/sounds/518616/

Leidseplein Brouwn

Music videos on YouTube:
Leidseplein: https://youtu.be/2Gj0m6oH0o4
Three Day Walk: https://youtu.be/cnD8Nd36EC0
Berliner Dom: https://youtu.be/E3PbfHYp2gE
Weesperplein: https://youtu.be/qBblh8aPP38

The two tracks Euclidean Patterns Demo 1 &amp; 2 accompany an article on my website about a Java program I wrote that uses a mathematical algorithm to generate polyrhythms known as Euclidean rhythms. The software sends MIDI notes to connected soft- or hardware.

Here’s a short screencap video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbYdExy3jQ

And the article on my website:
http://www.hisschemoller.com/2011/euclidean-midi-patterns

A bit more on Euclidean rhythms:
http://www.hisschemoller.com/2011/euclidean-rhythms

Wouter Hisschemöller

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