DM Synthesis + Santa Cruz Dec. 13th

November 24, 2024

If you follow me for signal processing writing, then sorry, this is a show announcement email. If you follow me for music updates, then sorry, this is a blog...

System-Building Syndrome

June 5, 2024

I had to take a break from creative projects, for a positive reason -- I was completely wiped out after April 27th at Monument. I'm easing back into it with...

Waveset clustering + show April 27th

April 9, 2024

First blog post of 2024 up. It's a small one about combining Trevor Wishart's wavesets concept with k-means clustering: Audio Effects with Wavesets and...

Jan 25th show and livestream

January 12, 2024

I'm playing a live electronics set alongside VJ Polina Powers with AV Club on Jan. 25th at the CCRMA Stage at Stanford University, CA. Free and open to the...

Cybernetic Synthesis and Roland Kayn

December 19, 2023

Latest post is up. It's about an attempt to recreate Roland Kayn's process: Cybernetic Synthesis and Roland Kayn | Nathan Ho Let’s open this post with...

State of the Blog, 2023 + live in SF Friday

December 2, 2023

SF Bay Area dwellers, I've got a small show coming up this Friday, 2023-12-08 in the Mission. The event is hosted by AV Club, featuring a lineup of live...

Audio Effects with Cepstral Processing

November 23, 2023

November's blog post just went up. It's a short one about audio effects using the cepstrum: Audio Effects with Cepstral Processing | Nathan Ho Much like the...

Making Synthesized Sounds More Acoustic (+ live show)

October 16, 2023

I'm playing live in the Mission in San Francisco, CA on the 28th, my first live show since I was a teenage noise bro. The best way to keep updated is to...

Composing with Accelerating Rhythms

September 21, 2023

Massive thanks to all who listened to Haywire Frontier. I gave a talk on rhythmic structures in the album yesterday for the NOTAM SuperCollider users group,...

Nathan Ho - Haywire Frontier

September 2, 2023

(Sorry for sending two emails so close to each other. This isn't a typical volume for the newsletter, I promise.) My first solo full-length album will be out...

An Intro to Wavelets for Computer Musicians

August 31, 2023

It's finally out: the most ambitious and longest post in the history of the blog, at 8,000 words and over a dozen images. It is my introduction to wavelets,...

Correlated Granular Synthesis + The Duration Trick

July 4, 2023

Not one but two blog posts. Correlated Granular Synthesis is my attempt to combine classic granular with multivariate probability distributions: Correlated...

A Preliminary Theory of Sound Design

May 30, 2023

As an offshoot of the music I’ve been working on, here is my attempt to explain my philosophy of sound design, at a level of abstraction that makes sense to...

Audio Texture Resynthesis

April 26, 2023

Today’s blog post is a lab notebook entry about audio texture resynthesis using machine listening features, some basic statistics, and differentiable...

Opinionated Advice for SuperCollider Beginners

March 16, 2023

My output as a “New Media Art-Tech Content Creator” [VOMITING NOISES] might be a bit slow for the next month, as I’m in the weeds of the most ambitious...

Demystifying Negative Compression

February 23, 2023

I generally shy away from negative topics on my blog, but I couldn't help it. Today's post explores the math of a rarely-discussed and deliciously bizarre...

Big announcement

February 12, 2023

The next blog post nears completion. In the meantime, I have an announcement. The most common questions I get on my YouTube are “why don’t you use Patterns”...

New EP as Interstate Hydra (+ new blog post)

January 16, 2023

Today’s big news is an EP release. I made this EP exactly three years ago under the alias Interstate Hydra, but only shared it with a few people up until...

Sound Synthesis with L-Systems

January 1, 2023

Happy 2023. My latest blog post is about a way to synthesize weird sounds with Lindenmayer systems: An Approach to Sound Synthesis with L-Systems | Nathan Ho...

TopMod, Blender, and Curved Handles

December 10, 2022

The first ever post on my blog that isn't about audio or music has gone up. It concerns my new obsessive hobby for the past two months, 3D renders of...

Sound Dumplings

October 26, 2022

This is a post I've been meaning to write for a long time, since I've been kicking around the concept for a few years. It's a workflow for producing ambient...

Matrix Modular Synthesis

September 13, 2022

Today I was working on some new music and in the process realized a possibly novel way to approach feedback synthesis. The blog post wrote itself, and...

Pulsar Synthesis

July 31, 2022

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"Switching" in Procedural Generation

July 23, 2022

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Integer Ring Modulation (+ new music)

March 31, 2022

Lately I've been feeling more inspired than usual on the writing front, so expect more posts in the coming month. Tonight's post is short, and it's about a...

A New Kind of Synthesis

March 26, 2022

I've stumbled upon what I call "Feedback Integrator Networks," and I'm quite excited about the sounds it's been generating for me. I'd describe them as...

The Search for the Perfect Pitch Tracker

February 7, 2022

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