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Max Matthews 1926-2011
Sad news. One of the titans of electronic music passed away today. Max Matthew's influence can not be understated. Anyone who makes music with a computer owes him a deep debt. He pioneered the idea of...
View Articleplane - m | vi | cv
I recorded this video with me talking over it, explaining things, but I liked it better without the voiceover, so I left it out.I've always loved step sequencers and I see the monome as an opportunity...
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Recorded this morning, ostensibly for the could have the skies project. Part of the project philosophy is to keep things raw and unedited as possible, working with the sounds of the environment and...
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Lego Nyan Cat
Jeeze. Do I have do do everything around here?Here is the model in Lego Digital Designer format, which you can use to generate building instructions and also order the kit from the Lego store if you...
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John Adams's at the 106th Juilliard Commencement
The United States, being both a comparatively young country, and before that, a British Colony isn't known for contributing a lot of big names to the pantheon of great Composers. Babbitt, Bernstein...
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Awareness & Persistence
Arguably, If you drink wine everyday for 20 years, You'd begin to become an expert on wine, or at least, what you like in wine. I drink sencha every single day. There are a number of parameters you can...
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Could Have the Skies
Could Have the Skies is the third set of solo piano improvs under the Escape Philosophy moniker. The same rules apply as the previous Escape Philosophy releases; I don't have a preconceived idea what...
View Articlevcvi maxforlive
vcvi is a suite of maxforlive devices to control your modular synth with a dc coupled audio interface. You might be able to tell I'm clearing the decks a bit. My new modular case is arriving soon and I...
View Articlemonome tuner display
Yesterday I planned to see if I could get plane -p into shape for release, but I had an idea for a tuner adapted to the monome using the analyzer~ external. Semitones are displayed on the grid, and you...
View Articlecombines the charms
This is a video capture of the recording session for 'combine the charms', which appears on 'could have the skies'
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plane -p
Here is the polyphonic MIDI version of the plane sequencer for the monome grid and arc. Also works great for drum sequencing. Download here.
View ArticleMonster Announces Gratitude earphones
I'm going to translate this recent press release from monster.Monster announced the Gratitude In-Ear Headphonestranslation: 'earphones'...created in alliance with legendary band Earth, Wind &...
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plane m | vi | cv released
Back from Los Angeles. Plane m | vi | cv was in a mostly-done state, but I was monomeless whilst traveling, so I worked on things that had nothing to do with the monome. Basically this meant working on...
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portamentos
The arc and grid make ideal companions. The grid is discrete, with edges, the arc is infinite, borderless. They complement each other beautifully. The grid is good at things the arc is poor at and vice...
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We're going to need more patch cords...
I've been slowly building my modular over the last 10 years or so. It started with a 6U Doepfer Basic System I bought used from Germany, with the details of the transaction hashed out via bablefish....
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Making music is a process
People seem to spend a lot of time making one synthesizer sound like another synthesizer. While I believe there is some value to be had from comparison videos such as these, I feel the conclusions that...
View Articlepractical max episode 1
Cycling 74 debuts a new video series in which I demonstrate some practical uses of Max and share the patches I make. In this first episode, I'm exploring what can be done with some inexpensive piezo...
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morphing control voltage snapshots
mcvs is a 12 output cv source for use with DC coupled audio interfaces. You can define up to eight snapshots per output. Then, with a single MIDI controller (or using the on screen control) you can...
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I get far better engagement on google plus, and much of my effort that would have been posted here is going in that direction. The only thing this blog allows me to do is interleave content and widgets...
View ArticlePractical Max 2
A tour of beat factorybeat factory can be downloaded hereSome information on how pattr can be used to morph sets of parameters.
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