Computer Music (G6611, Spring 2010) week 5

Synthesis II, Interactive Processes
sampling, more phys-model fun, granular synthesis, setting up a process

Links

A few good on-line sample sites, if you'd like to explore (there are many others!):

University of Iowa sample site -- lots of good orchestral instrument samples
freesound.org -- all kinds of fun!
Margeret Noble "Sound Is Art" site -- that strange site I got e-mail about just a few days ago

There has been a lot written and developed about granular synthesis. See the earlier class for some examples of sig-processing granulation. Links about granular synthesis in general:

granularsynthesis.com -- a whole domain name!
Barry Truax' web site -- da godfadda of gran-synth
Riverrun.mp3 -- and a link to an excerpt from his piece Riverrun (we have his CD in the Music and Arts Library)
granular synth theory -- a chapter in the Douglas book again
granular workshop -- a more commercial look at gran-synth, from the magazine Sound on Sound
Nathan Wolek's Granular Toolkit -- a set of max/msp objects for doing granular work

We had fun 'interacting with processes' (sequencer-like things and then others). Here are some links to chaotic and other systems, fun to explore:

older class links -- a bunch of good links on this page, like these:
- another older class -- some nifty chaotic attractors
- Paul Bourke's Snazzy Math Page -- use the menu and the "Go to" button, check out the 'fractals/chaos' and geometry surfaces
yet another older class -- links to Genetic Algorithms, Artificial Life, Neural Net approaches

Applications and Examples

Class patches:

Brad's: week5-classpatches-brad.zip
Sam's: Sam-granstuff.zip

The "week5-classpatches-brad" folder also contains the soundfiles used for the sampling demos. See the "instructions" file in Sam's material for installation of his programs.