sonic surrounds

here’s a sketch of an improv performance I’m posting as a reminder to resume this particular experiment when I have more free time after finishing the thesis.

this piece is done in Pd, using field recordings of a street cleaner machine; also some granulation controlled by a particle swarm simulation, providing some great organic bass sounds in the later stages (and mids earlier on); a glitch/pop generator run through a loop catcher; and an inertial-physical-model-controlled drone providing some slowly descending glue tones, though occasionally damaged by very slight dropouts serving as a reminder to use Pd with Jack for better reliability.

as i said, a sketch only, but with elements well worth a revisit. the swarm-granular-bass might be an interesting anchor for some warped dsp dubstep hybrid (!?).

 

 improv-pd-gran-swarm-etc: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I rediscovered a recording of a Metasense performance (Somaya Langley and Nick Mariette) from Electrofringe 2005. This was a surround sound performance - after some last minute speaker hauling by Govinda and others - and some channels were missing from the recording, but i was able to recover this nice extract and render it as a binaural file. enjoy!

 

 metasense electrofringe 2005 performance - extract [5:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download