If you are in the Bay Area please visit us at the Bay Area Maker Faire today and tomorrow (5/21 – 5/22/11) for our exhibit: Homebrew Audio Synthesizers in a mint can. We are located in the Fiesta Hall Digital Sound Space (that is the hall with the Tesla Coils, but we are in a [...]
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AudioAnecdotes at MakerFaire2001
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The missing harmonic
A sneak-peak of our upcoming Audio Anecdotes 2011 Maker Faire project: Synthesizer in an Altoids Can. This is a snapshot of a baudline spectagram of our first test signal. Notice anything unusual? Why is there a missing harmonic?
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Rest in Peace Owsley
Rest in Peace Owsley “Bear” Stanley; the world is now a little less colorful place. Perhaps best know as the sound engineer who helped inspire the Grateful Dead‘s infamous Wall of Sound public address system that helped define the sound of live rock shows. Amazing for the early 1970′s the P.A. was powered by over 26,000 [...]
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Homebrew Audio Synthesizers in an Altoids Can
We just submitted our Bay Area Maker Faire Proposal: “Homebrew Audio Synthesizers in a Mint Can” Maker #5001.
Baudline for the Mac!
Baudline, the versatile, free(!), audio spectrum analyzer/signal analysis application, is finally available for the mac. Having an OS X version means I am far more likely to analyze a signal since I no longer have to boot into Linux or Windows to run baudline. While not a native Cocoa app baudline runs fast and updates [...]
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Thoughts for Maker Faire 2011
Usually I get off to a late start, but this year we are already beginning to brainstorm for at Maker Faire 2011 (May 21-22nd, San Mateo Fairgrounds). The idea this year is to allow participants to experiment with the various sound synthesis algorithms described in the books: FM, modal, subtractive, granular, physical, etc. Participants will get [...]
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Pre-order The SuperCollider Book!
My colleague and SuperCollider creator, James McCartney, tells me that the long wait for the SuperCollider book is almost over. The book will shortly be released on MIT Press, and may be if you can’t wait! For those not yet indoctrinated, SuperCollider is a special purpose programming language environment for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition [...]
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Sonic Sculpture
Being a fan of sound synthesis via (digital) physical modeling I am amazed by the Swiss artist Zimoun‘s physical kinetic sonic sculpture: Swissnex will be exhibiting Zimoun’s works in San Francisco January 22 to February 26th 2011. Contact me if you would like to go together.
Full circle
I recently learned that Audio Anecdote’s publisher, AK Peters, has merged with CRC Press of the Taylor and Francis Group. Having started my academic career as a chemical engineer I am of course very well acquainted with the CRC and most famously the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (known simply as ‘the CRC’). Working with [...]
