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Official organ of the Symbolic Sound Corporation NeverEngineLabs sets off car alarms in Santiago Concert , Event , Multichannel immersive event Comments Off on NeverEngineLabs sets off car alarms in Santiago Apr 15 2024 Circle 6 of Dante’s Inferno contains the fiery tombs of heretical souls, and in the venue for NeverEngineLabs (Cristian Vogel) 6 April octaphonic concert — a car park six floors beneath the Earth’s surface in the Providencia area of Santiago Chile — the lighting appears eerily appropriate. NeverEngineLabs’ live setup in Santiago Chile 2024 Vogel, whose work focuses on experimental electronic music, electroacoustic music, and pushing compositional boundaries beyond style and convention writes The sound check was a veritable wall of noise, never heard Ambisonics sound so intense… the subs were so full, car alarms were setting off on the floors above! Cristian’s goals for 2024 and beyond are to explore socially relevant musical narratives that challenge the listener and expand the boundaries of what is possible in experimental electronic music. Posted by SSC at 3:34 pm Bruno in Brno Seminar Comments Off on Bruno in Brno Apr 15 2024 For composer Bruno Liberda, the train is his mobile studio (thanks to the battery-powered Pacamara). For composer Bruno Liberda, the train is his mobile studio This week’s journey, a mere one and half hours by train from Vienna, Austria to Brno, Czech Republic, finds him collaborating with students and faculty at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (JAMU) , where students focus on developing their own artistic practice within the broader context of studies in history, theory, culture and society. Entry to the Leoš Janáček Academy of Music Bruno Liberda presenting the Kyma seminar During the seminar, students had an opportunity to delve into Kyma with the benefit of Bruno’s experience and guidance. Topics included sound design using the signal flow editor, composing for live performance in the Kyma Timeline, and reactive programming with Capytalk. Pacarana installed in the electronic music studio Modular synths and waveform sketches Liberda dedicated a full day to the question top-most in the student’s minds: How can we feed the sounds from a modular into Kyma?” Together they delayed, granulated and realtime spectralized / froze / singled-out individual overtones… in Bruno’s words, we spectralized the hell out of it!” Curious to hear some of Liberda’s music? L’apr​è​s​-​midi im Stiegenhaus von Mozart , for various analog synthesizers, piano, Kyma, and organ pipes that Liberda claims to have found in Mozarts’ basement, was just released (4 April 2024). Liberda requests that listeners please listen with headphones (or on a good stereo system), otherwise you will not only miss the mysterious murmuring in the stairwell, but also all the shadows and fine cracks of light in the spatial structure, the top, bottom, front, back further left or right – everything quiet and surprising exploding in multifold time. In a word: the soul of the piece! Posted by SSC at 3:33 pm misfold in Hamburg Event , Festival , Sound Recording , Video Comments Off on misfold in Hamburg Apr 15 2024 misfold is a piece for pipe organ and Kyma electronics, commissioned by Franz Danksagmüller for org_art_lab in Hamburg 6-12 November 2023, a workshop dedicated to collaborations involving art, science, and the pipe organ. But not just any pipe organ… The HyperOrgan that Franz helped design for St Nikolai church has been augmented with new timbres, percussion sounds, enhanced touch sensitivity and air-flow control, microphones placed among the pipes for electronic signal processing, speakers in the loft so you can blend the organ sound with electronic sound synthesis, and bidirectional MIDI control. The console in the loft has five manuals and a pedal board, each one controllable by a separate MIDI input channel, with the ranges and timbres controlled by the stops. In keeping with the theme of the workshop (hyper-organ-artscience collaborations), the composer employed data from protein-folding simulations computed at Martin Gruebele’s lab at the University of Illinois to generate the sound and structure of the piece. Why is it named misfold ? It feels like we’re at a tipping point, and it’s unclear which direction things will take. There’s a pervasive sense of instability across multiple spheres — political, cultural, technological, economic, climatic: Will these instabilities continue to increase, resulting in a catastrophic breakdown? Will we mis-fold” into a familiarsomewhat comfortable, but sub-optimal state? Or could we use this time of instability to explore possibilities that we haven’t thought of trying before and maybe discover a better way forward? MISFOLD by Carla Scaletti from Franz Danksagmüller on Vimeo. Posted by SSC at 3:32 pm Coypu meets Paca in Shanghai Concert , Conference , Event Comments Off on Coypu meets Paca in Shanghai Apr 15 2024 Coypu, photo by Basile Morin CC BY-SA Paca, photo by Hans Hillewaert CC SA A coypu ( aka nutria) is a semi-aquatic rodent and is the name given to a Pharo package for live coding developed by Domenico Cipriani ( aka Lucretio). At the end of May, Lucretio will be performing with two rodents — his Paca and the Coypu package — at the 2024 International Conference of Live Coding (ICLC) in Shanghai , generating sounds and parsing OSC to control graphics in Kyma and using Coypu to program music on-the-fly. Lucretio describes his 30 minute live coding performance for Pharo, Kyma and Processing as a social experiment with euclidean geometries, hexadecimal beats and post-jungle patterns drifting from sparse broken drums and essential scaled-down soulful chords to bass-driven percussive timelines and recursive frequency modulated quirks… heavily influenced by the sound from South London and Detroit.” Posted by SSC at 3:31 pm Milani launches Cosmic Charges Release , Sample Library , Sound Design Comments Off on Milani launches Cosmic Charges Apr 13 2024 Matteo Milani’s (Unidentified Sound Object)COSMIC CHARGES ” is a library of tonal blasts and impacts for video games, films, TV series, and more. Each impact is split into layers, allowing a sound designer to decompose and reconstitute sub-timbres to create unique sounds. Milani was inspired by innovative sound designers Ben Burtt, Randy Thom, and Gary Rydstrom to continue to push the boundaries of his own work. It was through Ben Burtt’s book, Galactic Phrase BookTravel Guide , that Milani first discovered Kyma, which he used in this project to add musical layers to each impact — thus imparting a unique sonic identity and intensifying the emotional resonance and dynamics. In addition to their SFX libraries, Milani’s Unidentified Sound Object offers a range of services including complex sound design, composition, multilingual localization, games and VR development, location recording, and more. Posted by SSC at 6:16 pm ligeti center launches Artists and Scientists in Residence with Spatial Audio premiere Concert , Event , Multichannel immersive event , Seminar Comments Off on ligeti center launches Artists and Scientists in Residence with Spatial Audio premiere Apr 13 2024 The inaugural event of the ligeti center Artists and Scientists in Residence” program and christening of their brand new spatial audio system was the 4 April 2024 world premiere of Fredrik Mathias Josefson’s spatial audio composition Above a Sea of ​​Fog,” an immersive electroacoustic environment that employs recording, Kyma synthesis, and negative space” to weave a spatial soundscape. Josefson also provided insights into his creative processes and spatial audio methodologies and discussed his two-month residency at the ligeti center. For more of Josefson’s music, visit: https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/the-distant-past-resounds Bringing together expertise from the realms of art, science, and technology, the Production Lab” at the heart of the...