B41(270521)

Electroacoustic Jam during Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway. 
Traditional norwegian harp get's amplified and processed in realtime with the free software puredata.

BergenHarp

just modular puredata.  Step sequencers, drones and hand-modulated parameters. Wish I had a decent midi controller here....  If you want to check by yourself the sequencer environment, get it here: http://servando.teks.no/?serquencer 
Comes with a detailed manual in Eng + Spanish . 

DF-2 In C

This an excerpt of a live jam using and instrument called "Bill 3Osc Test Autophase". Uses my new Moog-style "fixed filter bank", my 3-band formant filter (for the whooshy filter sweeps), a simple sequencer which opens a gate to another Multi Osc set to noise. The microtonal scale was a complete accident, but I want to explore these modalities more.... Dedicated to Jane Kleeb, of Bold Nebraska, and pipeline fighters everywhere... This a quick demo... needs better mastering...

Snake Charmer

New track using custom 5-oscillator patch. I've implemented a simple ADSR circuit for the string pluck. (you can see 3 instances of it here). My new sequencer module seen (center) is unused in this track. You can also see 2 instances of my Moog "Fixed Filter" bank, which I use to shape the string-pluck and later, the noise.

The regenerative feedback gets a little out of control in one spot... ~5:40 ish

One interesting note: there is a strange bubbling sound which you can hear at about the 4min mark is due to a quirk with the PD user-interface. The [hsl] I used as the "bender" for my 3-band formant filter is being driven by a randomizing circuit (which is switched off). I've noticed I can grab and move the slider, but after a short time, PD resets it to the driven value. So the bubbling effect is caused by me dragging the slider, as PD is trying to restore the value to what it "should" be. Interesting the quirks with the UI can be used with nice musical consequences!

Nostalgia

7 - 12 - 2015 "Lifetime Opportunity" This is an upbeat thing...  100% pure PD. Starts with a 3 Oscillator cluster through 3-band formant filter tuned to a chord. First we play a melody by moving this chord around. Then we put a random sample-hold LFO on the filter. Synched are 2 mini-sequencers triggering a drum-like sounds. 

Lifetime Opportunity

Created using netpd software and recorded in realtime without sequenced arrangements.

The song title was chosen because the track was inaudible on some poorer speakers until sqgl mastered it.

Image is a slight doctoring of
http://a-blithe.deviantart.com/art/smoking-speaker-158696828

140701 SpeakerMelt

This is a demo track for my "Ultimate 12-Band Flanger" patch written in Pure Data (PD) available in my BHPDToolkit on Github. This is dedicated to my friend and colleague at ShaleshockMedia, Cris McConkey, who was instrumental in documenting the history of the movement to Ban Fracking in New York. I know Cris would appreciate the technology I used, that I built a custom musical instrument for this.  Cris is on his way to Cuba to get an experimental cancer treatment. Peace be with you, mi Amigo. (WARNING! This audio contains subsonics, piercing pure tones, and overdriven, full-spectrum sound. Please turn down your speaker volume until you find a safe listening level.)

Comb Your Filters (turn down your speaker volume!)

hmm, happy with the long sample import thing in pd but annoyed by the fact that each time I change the "page" in my controller, the values of some parameters receive a "reset"...  That is like a "ghost" friend  disturbing me, trying to lead me to other directions...   let me kill that thing NOw! ; ).   gute nacht!.

Postbbq

fm + squared percussive synth  test.   too much manipulation at the same time, it makes eventually great sounds..


Fm hp rng rnd

Neulandwolken

See also... 
https://soundcloud.com/netpd01
https://soundcloud.com/netpd02
https://soundcloud.com/netpd2023

Recorded live via netpd which is software for jamming on the internet developed by Roman & Enrique. Anyone is welcome to install netpd on their Windows Apple or Linux computer, connect to the server and chat with whoever is online and/or join in on the jam. Instructions (with screenshots) for getting started are at http://jo.koan.net/pingdom/tutorial/

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