Portrait of the one and only Fuzz

Flickr Photo by daPauk.

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I have just posted my third Csound Blog entry.

Topics covered:

• Layered Voices
• Synchronized Phase-Offset Oscillator Array
• Multi-Band Spatializer
• Oscillator Array Modulated Multi-Band Panner

Visit:
The Csound Blog

In this weekend projects video, Bre Pettis and Justin Gerardy hack into a speak and spell and an omnichord.

The video is hosted at blip.tv. Thanks to glitch of worshiptheglitch for emailing me the link.

Part of getbent.

the record collection in the calarts library

Flickr Photo by greentheory.

EAST

I have just finished rewriting Exploring Analogue Synth Techniques, a Csound tutorial I wrote as an undergrad back in 1998.

Some of the topics include:

• bias
• phase
• legato
• phasors
• simulating a sync oscillator
• modeling a step sequencer

Enjoy!

This is a demonstration of miniTamTam, a music application for the OLPC XO computer

Read more at TamTam: Music and sound for the OLPC.Youtube video posted by natcl.

The 5th issue of the Csound Journal has been published at cSounds.com. A range of topics are discussed, including Pure Data, an art installation, HPKComposer and Perl. To quote editor Stever Yi, “It never ceases to amaze me the number of different ways that people are using Csound and the wide variety of musics being made.” [source]

I previously mentioned I had written an article for the journal. I’m happy to announce that “Perl and Csound - Part I” is included in this issue. I want to personally thank the editors James Hearon and Steven Yi for giving me the opportunity to contribute to one of my favorite online publications.

Just last week, a friend of mine was telling me that Csound is included in the One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC.)

Last night, I coincidentally stumbled across the development blog for TamTam, “a suite of three applications / activities developed for the $100 laptop.” [source]  The program is implemented using Python and PyGTK, and utilizes Csound as its synthesis engine.  The TamTam GUI appears to be very user-friendly, and reminds me of a simplified version of Max/MSP combined with a midi sequencer.  

The OLCP is, among other things, a musical instrument.  The fact that this musical instrument is going to make its way into the hands of children spanning dozens of cultures fascinates me to no end.

As a side note, I can’t help but think of the NAVI computer in Serial Experiments Lain.  I look forward to the day OLPC laptops become commercially available, so that I may get my hands on one.