Lime68k & Nathan Ho - Striations of Grace
Lime68k and I made a collaborative album. Striations of Grace is out October 3rd on EVEL Records. Seven tracks, 53 minutes of cosmic horror mutations for...
Seattle, WA show Aug 8th
Hey all. No new synthesis blog posts since I've been mostly grinding on music, with at least two projects releasing this year. The only update I have for is...
DM Synthesis + Santa Cruz Dec. 13th
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
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
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
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
Latest post is up. It's about an attempt to recreate Roland Kayn's process: Cybernetic Synthesis and Roland Kayn | Nathan Ho Letâs open this post with...
State of the Blog, 2023 + live in SF Friday
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'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)
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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...