Polytychs & Stylus
Resonant Network: Guitar & Drumset
This demonstrates the emergent, tonal nature of rhythmic entrainment. Melodic, harmonic, timbral shifts, voice-like effects, are all emergent from very simple gestures and motifs. Often the guitar plays only two notes or chords but results in polyphonic, polyrhythmic contrapuntal structures.
…we remember the late Cy Twombly for his luscious, passionate scribbles… “I didn’t have to bother with myself ever,” he once said, “except as a vehicle to look for subject matter.” (artsy.net)
'I work in waves' (The Guardian)
In a rare interview, the renowned US artist Cy Twombly talks to Tate director Nicholas Serota about his astonishing work.
Cy Twombly
Thousands of everyday sounds, organized using machine learning.
By Manny Tan & Kyle McDonald
Infinite Drum Machine
Sounds are complex and vary widely. This experiment uses machine learning to organize thousands of everyday sounds. The computer wasn’t given any descriptions or tags – only the audio. Using a technique called t-SNE, the computer placed similar sounds closer together. You can use the map to explore neighborhoods of similar sounds and even make beats using the drum sequencer.
Built by Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan, Yotam Mann, and friends at Google Creative Lab. Thanks to the London Philharmonia for contributing some sounds to this project.
The Infinite Drum Machine
Ahnert Festal Media Group (AFMG) real-time acoustic analysis and simulation
Ahnert Festal Media Group, Berlin, Germany (efmg.eu)
In cooperation with our partner company SDA Software Design Ahnert GmbH we develop and distribute software for
- Electro-acoustic and room-acoustic modeling
- Electronic and acoustic measurements
- RF and infrared simulation
- Event technology
- Applications in engineering and physics
- Software development and maintenance
Located in Berlin, Germany, AFMG is a worldwide leader in software for the pro-audio industry and has created the industry standards EASE and EASERA software for acoustic simulation and measurement as well as their related products EASE Focus, EASERA SysTune, EASE Address and EASE SpeakerLab.
from: http://www.afmg.eu/index.php/company.html (accessed 23 Nov 2016)
EASERA Software (pc)
Electronic and Acoustic System Evaluation and Response Analysis
EASERA is the unrivaled solution for electronic and acoustic analysis with industry standard quality and incredible flexibility and power.
EASERA consists of four logical parts:
- Signal generator
- Measurement
- Real time analyser
- Post processing
EASERA provides both data acquisition with a variety of stimulus signals including Time Delay Spectrometry, sweeps MLS or noise excitation signals and a post processing engine to calculate all acoustic functions or measures according to ISO Standard 3382 and higher.
The real time analyser provides multiple ways to perform a fast onsite analysis or to obtain a precise view of the surrounding acoustic environment.
Although many of these tools are available in one form or another in several products, EASERA is the first to bring them all together in one unified measuring package.
EASERA can be run on Microsoft Windows XP or higher and in conjunction with nearly every modern measurement interface.
from: http://www.afmg.eu/index.php/company.html (accessed 23 Nov 2016)
Snapping your fingers could let this new tech draw a sonic landscape.
Source: App Lets You Map Rooms Like a Bat
App Lets You Map Rooms Like a Bat
Self-Portraits (May 2016)
Paul Ruston 