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 public. If you're not in the area you can catch the full show on livestream at CCRMA LIVE, 7:30 Pacific.
No new blog post today, but I am working on an article on a new (to my knowledge) approach to granular synthesis, a much-improved sequel to my earlier Correlated Granular Synthesis post. It's quickly shaping up to be my favorite idea for the blog just in terms of sound, but I've been too busy to push it to the finish line so far. (Most of my technical writing energy for the next few months will be consumed by pulling together my first conference paper.)
I've also updated "A Survey of Nonstandard Oscillators" with some new methods: FOF, LASy, and allpass distortion synthesis. LASy is extremely obscure, found while idly browsing Google Scholar. I have not had the time to implement and listen to it. Any takers?
A Survey of Nonstandard Oscillators | Nathan Ho
This is a collection of synthesis algorithms that meet the following criteria: They must synthesize pitched tones â periodic or quasiperiodic waveforms. I can include or exclude anything at my arbitr
The YouTube channel is chugging along. I quite like this little atmospheric patch I made, intended as a soundalike of Icarus' track "Nine Fresian":
I mention this for self-accountability: I do want to eventually have off-YouTube backups of all my videos. YouTube is starting to completely swallow itself whole (deliberately slowing down non-Chrome browsers, etc.) and while it doesn't make sense for me to abandon it, you deserve some alternative options.
Also, I was informed in December that my post "Making Synthesized Sounds More Acoustic" was on the Hacker News front page for a bit. Huh. Well, thanks! Hello to new subscribers.