Algorithmic piece made in SuperCollider in which I explore the "theme and variations" form but outside the classical aesthetic.

Detuned Rain (2024)

Created with my own Generative Music System. A deep house song built upon algorithms and patterns. Hope you enjoy!

Near House

Sonic Fauna Shorts, Vol 2 - Track #4 - A collection of demo tracks created with the latest version of Sonic Fauna, a new app for sound designers, experimentalists and the ever curious. In this demo we share a new chorus effects module slated for release in v1.1.0 (Nov 6, 2025)!

Safe Worlds

Генеративный bytebeat-трек, написанный вручную через dollchan.net/bytebeat

Используемый код:

T=[13,8],l=[0,1],p=t* (("2222222#2222222#".charCodeAt((t>>T[ (t>>17)%2])%16)-35)/10),b=((t* (("0000000133333336=". charCodeAt ((t>>13)%16)-35)/10))%256/5),e=l[(t>>17) %2]*random()*(((-t>> [6,5,5,4,3,5,4,4,4,5,5,4,5,5,4,3] [(t>>11)%16]) %64)+64)/3,p%30.1/3+p%59.98/3+p%50.02/3+p %40.2/3+b+e+(t*("0402060=".charCodeAt ((t>>11)%8)-35)%256)/15

Звук порождён из побитовых сдвигов, символов, случайностей и математической боли.
Никаких сэмплов — только голая формула, периодичность, и то, что находится между. Кстати у меня ДР сегодня.

t>>17core

(Instrumental) «Digital Core» — Цифровое Ядро

Gates of Hope

Lucid Dream

New piece, back to more energetic and intricate. In 28edo tuning (28 equal steps per octave), and in 28/16 meter. Mostly in counterpoint with melodic lines interwoven or "tangled up" right on top of each other. Plus pads and drums.

Semi-generative in that the "chaotic groove sequencer" program I made in Max generated a lot of the "raw notes", building blocks which I then edited, arranged, and tweaked in many ways. The generative Max program takes a lot of work to set up, organize parameters and parameter presets, and "play". And then a lot more work to edit and change things in an effort to make it sound more "alive". Pretty much every generated note has been tweaked for velocity and duration, and often pitch and rhythm too. Lots of notes were added or deleted as well. The instrumentation, FX, etc, are all done "by hand". The generative stuff is the foundation of the "melodic" voices, which I tried to edit and arrange such that melodies emerge from multiple voices interwoven together. I like the idea of melodies constantly shifting between voices. The drums and pads were added "by hand".

The program generates notes by several methods. Perhaps the most interesting is the "logistic map" equation from chaos math: next-x = r * cur-x (1.0 - cur-x). Depending on the value of the r parameter the output can range from single values repeating to chaos, with islands of interest along the "edge of chaos". I try to find places in the logistic map where there's an ever-changing yet "self-similar" fractal-like feeling. The equation output values between 0-1, which I have Max map to a changing list of pitches in MIDI.

Another interesting method used in Max is having a voice "arpeggiate" though its pitch set—the pitch sets are made from the current scale, transposition, and pitch range, all set by hand and saved in presets per voice. When the number of pitches in the pitch set and/or the arpeggiating sequence pattern is different from the number of notes per 28-step rhythmic loop, the pitches can end up shifting around the rhythm as it loops. When multiple voices do that in different ways the result can be quite complicated and feel somewhat unpredictable.

Being in 28edo tuning, of course I had to use 28/16 meter. An interesting meter as it can just be 7/4 or a whole bunch of more complicated metric patterns, like 7/8 twice per loop, or 7/16 four times per loop, or a bunch of other patterns.

Scales used, with various modulations, in order use use: Tetrawood 4L4s (4 equally large steps and four equally small steps) mode 43434343 (steps of 28edo), Diasem 5L2m2s RH mode 414434143 (diasem is chiral so has "right-handed" and "left-handed" forms), Diasem LH mode 441434143, Diasem RH mode 414434143, "Minor" (5254345), Dietic Minor 4L3m3s mode 4134413413, Omnidiatonic 2L3m2s RH mode 4642642 (another chiral scale form), Diasem mode 143414434, "Minor".

Or more simply put: The track uses scales of 28edo known as Tetrawood, Diasem, "Minor", Dietic Minor, and Omnidiatonic. The scale called "minor" is, as far as I know, basically 28edo's best approximation of "normal" diatonic. Except it uses four different step sizes. Still it seems to sound pretty much like normal 12edo diatonic, at least on this track. Funny how my ear can't really tell there are extra step sizes compared to 12edo diatonic.

Also on my youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@duckapus424

Images made in midjourney. Just me trying to get midjourney to do strange and unexpected things. 

G.31 Crazy 28 (28edo)

Microcomposition made with Strudel. livecoding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WaFmJgEVNU&feature=youtu.be

Beyond Reality

номер девять

Biomes are little worlds of organic relationships, full of struggles, symbiosis, and sheer obsolete noise. In "De Silenti Natura," Henrique Vaz is meticulously crafting synthetic auditory biomes, sprouting from their own fuzzy logic. Unfolding across two distinct acts, the Brazilian artist interprets and replicates the complex, often ambiguous sounds of (un)natural environments, creating imaginary systems to inhabit over two sides of tape. The soundscape of the first side and title track is entirely algorithmically synthesized, with no samples used, leveraging Supercollider for real-time sound generation. The environment thus built is a flourishing one, seemingly unable to escape its own grandeur as insect-like buzzing and crackles expands into mountain ranges and forests of erupting sonorous drama. The second side introduces 'hydrophone' water synthesizers, submerged in a goldfish bowl to interface with the unfurling waves of electronic chords, creating a unique blend of damp and unwieldy sloshing movements, prismatically scattered into a luscious soundscape, and resembling everything from the bridge of a starship to the echoed drip-drip of stalactites.

Both sides of the album slowly unwrap and uncrinkle, revealing layers of hisses, distant digital choirs, warm enveloping chords, and juddering bleeps. Despite their unwieldy and strange nature, myriad elements convey a familiar sense of environment, flitting between the blossoming of new (manmade) life and the doom and destruction of the (real) world.

As the ringing of bells (fully synthetic; no samples were used) hove into view during the closing movement of side one, a simulacrum cacophony of voices is ushered in. It’s a reminder of the holy nature of sound itself, beamed into our heads intangibly. The flipside’s water ritual, frantically dunking ‘water synthesizers’ to birth swooping melodies and yawning tones, is jabbing at sleeping giants. It’s pushing and pulling the stars in the night sky into place. It’s both a simple act of beautiful creation, and a storm in a teacup. 


De Silenti Natura (2021)
An essay on the "silence of the models", the "modes of silence", the "silence as a module" and the idealistic/liturgical conceptions of the "sonorus".
An artificial environment (modeling aural stratum of biomes with fuzzy logic). All sounds are algorithmically synthesised, no samples used (Lua2SC/C++).
Algorithm computed at the studio of the Institute of Arts and Design of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in partnership with the research group Gambioluteria: From the Workaround-Oriented Programming to the Notch of Post-Digital Lutherie.

Hidrofonias (2023)
An essay on the "nature of models," the "modes of nature," "nature as a module," and idealistic conceptions of the naturalities of natures.
For a handmade hydrophonic synthesizer.
Recorded at the studio of the Institute of Arts and Design of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in partnership with the Laboratory of Image and Creation in Dance of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the research group Gambioluteria: From the Workaround-Oriented Programming to the Notch of Post-Digital Lutherie.


Composed, recorded and mixed by Henrique Vaz
www.instagram.com/henrique_vazzz/

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Cover art, drawings and notes by Henrique Vaz

Layout and text by Michaela Cagáňová
www.instagram.com/michelle_cagan/

Words by Tristan Bath
Photography by Michaela Cagáňová

Released by mappa as MAP050 in 2024

De Silenti Natura

Hidrofonias

V  L  L  K U D VI   SE  N

Viel Vielück und Gl Viend

Fiel Glük unt fiel Segn

Oh, this is noisy.  Another experiment in generating decent noise with as few lines of code as I can, using mostly modular arithmetic.  I threw a little lowpass filter on afterwards for obvious reasons.

mostly modular arithmetic, again

A tweak of yesterday's track to get thing a little less frantic.  Generated with a short piece of code that uses only integer arithmetic, not floating point so no trig functions or random numbers.  

mostly modular arithmetic, again, II

I steal music and occasionally make my own

Sonic Fauna is a new app designed for experimental electronic music production & sound design through algorithmic and generative creation. With Sonic Fauna you can assemble digital instruments through a super intuitive U.I. and build custom configurations of sequencers, synthesizers, drum machines and effects. The goal of Sonic Fauna is to be both a highly compelling tool for creating interesting sound & music and to be the center of a community of enthusiasts that help guide the direction of the project. The app is currently in a private alpha and is planned to enter a public alpha in the coming months.

liquid cartography
sonic wanderings

mappa.editions@gmail.com

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MAP059 Lénok - Langue of Tongue
MAP062 Kult Masek & Petr Vrba - Fumarola
MAP060 Yoichi Kamimura & Olli Aarni - Kōri no ryokō / Jäämatkailu
MAP061 Richard Hronský - Pohreb
MAP064 Areliz Ramos - B side
MAP063 Plume Gril - Unnameable Glory
MAP057 claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - quilted lament
MAP058 Adam Badí Donoval - a mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincided
MAP056 fraufraulein - greater honeyguide
MAP055 - Julek ploski - Give Up Channel

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MAP053 Michaela Antalová & Adrian Myhr - Sing Nightingale
MAP051 michaela turcerová - alene et
MAP052 E/I - explicit isolation
MAP054 Lamina - Sueños acuáticos
MAP049 - Päfgens - Aspect of What
MAP050 - Henrique Vaz - De Silenti Natura
MAP048 Alley Catss - m Helux
MAP047 adaa - …img…
MAP041 Pentu - And I Saw My Devil And I Saw My Deep Blue Sea

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MAP041 Slowfoam - Worlding With Earth
MAP045 VA - Synthetic Bird Music
MAP044 Line Gate - Trap
SKUMAP002 Action Pyramid & Jack Greenhalgh - Mardle: Daily Rhythms of a Pond
046 Adela Mede - Ne L​é​pj a Vir​á​gra
043 Plume Girl - In the End We Begin
039 Forces - Chim​æ​ras
040 Rob Winstone - sifting through heaven
SKUMAP001 Lucie Vítková - Cave Acoustics
030 Symposium Musicum - Symposium Musicum

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038 Nighte - Pin down the dust
036 Kensho Nakamura - Electric Rust
037 Andrew Oda - Back To The Body
031 Baldruin - Kleine Freuden
035 CC Sorensen - Phantom Rooms
034 Alexandra Spence - a veil, the sea
033 Manja Ristić - Him, fast sleeping, soon he found In labyrinth of many a round, self​-​rolled
Grykë Pyje - The Fantastic World of Grykë Pyje
032 Atte Elias Kantonen - POP 6 SUSURRUS

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029 Grykë Pyje - Squirlich Stroll
028 Cucina Povera - Dalmarnock tapes
027 Nick Storring - Newfoundout
025 Lucia Nimcová & Sholto Dobie - DILO
026 Cheryl E. Leonard - Schism
024 Tastin Menu - Stand closer when you have something to say
023 Infant - face first in the entangled

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022 Line Gate - Apex
021 Andrew Oda - SOTTO
020 Cristián Alvear & d'incise - Bow down thine ear, I bring you glad tidings
019 Vlad Dobrovolski - Natursymphony No​.​1 — Spring Music
018 Felicity Mangan - Creepy Crawly
017 Roman Radkovič Collective - Televize
016 Olli Aarni - Mustikoita ja kissankelloja
015 Sarah Hughes - I love this city and its outlying lands
014 Sébastien Branche - Lignes de Fuite

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013 Grykë Pyje - Collision And Coalescence
VA: UŠAMI / Sound mapping camp - Gemer Gothic Route
012 IQ+1 - Conversaphone Plus

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011 Sarah Hennies - Sisters by Lenka Novosedlíková
010 Simon Whetham - Open and Closed Circles
009 MP Hopkins - Aeroplanes & Puddles

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008 Bruno Duplant, Pedro Chambel - Autofictions
007 Catriel Nievas, Sergio Merce - Pampa
006 Diatribes - Sistere
005 Line Gate - Den

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004 Sarah Hennies: Orienting Response by Cristián Alvear
003 Daniel Lercher & Vinzenz Schwab - Decrecimiento Exponencial
002 Adam Asnan - Carriers, PA
001 Jeph Jerman - 34​°​111'3"N 111​°​95'4"W

Here, I post mainly my experiments in algorithmic/electronic music with programming languages, mainly strudel and sonic pi (check Radio Dulu on YouTube for the live coding). In reposts and likes, 4 main areas of interest: 1) Afro-tropical rhythms, afrobeat; 2) retro 80s pop; 3) electronic, retro videogame music, chiptunes; 4) Turkish psychedelic, Balkan folk. 💛

A human voice, a vintage drum machine, and the soul of the city. I explore cinematic soundscapes with a blend of lo-fi electronica, psychedelia, and raw urban textures. Music for moments of solitude. 🎧

A math person making and modifying sounds with custom code, Csound, homemade electronics.

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