SQ Pre-study

See you Friday Fylkingen, Lisa & Kroffe ft Tove Nowén visuals, IAKDS with Core, Sound Quartet (Thomas Bjelkeborn, Paul Pignon) ft Martina Claussen voice/electronics and Lisa Ulfves visuals. In the bar Bjællra (Jonatan Bjelkeborn).

From Blog Tuesday 28 sept. Looks like the baby blue is maturing into a darker shade of colour. Three generations of midi controllers and experimental ways of playing electronic sounds and real-time transformations through synthesis and various filters and whatnot. The use of the 90's midiguitar with experimental diy extensions slowly faded in the early 2000'nds towards more and more software dependent tools like the wii's and today MPE controllers like the ORBA is surfacing. It's always nice to try new ways of interacting with synthesis and computers even thought the ORBA (in a limited way) is a self sufficient soundmaker.

2022 ICMA - International Computer Music Association conference, see you there.

Music Additional Rules for Music Submissions Submissions should indicate whether the piece requires our featured performers. ICMC cannot provide any other performers. Composers must provide their own per…

Blog sunday 23 aug. How do you control your electronic sounds? MPE promises to be the new path towards greater musicality in electronic controllers and keyboards. As a former guitarplayer the Artiphone Intrument1 adds an interesting spice to the mix. Trying to imagine what software synthesis could be in the hands of a semi-guitar soloist. There is a big challenge in developing software related links for the transition between the fingers through the multidimensional MPE midi controller in relation to an ever expanding electronic sounduniverse. All aiming towards a stringlike playing sensitivity hoping to reach new depth in expressibility further mimicking some of the acoustic instruments strongpoints of fast sound transformability. Easier said than done.

SQ Pre-study updated their website address.

Soundhack externals beta 64 bit for MAX/MSP

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open source vst's, linux and mac

SPARTA - Spatial Audio Real-Time Applications The installer also includes HO-SIRR, which can render Ambisonic room impulse responses (RIRs) to arbitrary loudspeaker set-ups wth higher spatial resolution than conventional Ambisonic decoders.

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From Blog Tuesday 11 may. Can we change our mindset and find new ways for musical worldmaking? Tests of SonoBus plugin shows great challenges for rehearsals over international borders. Musicians Paul Pignon Jordbro Sweden and Jukka Kääriäinen Helsinki Finland tried networking with SonoBus plug, latency 1000 milliseconds. That is more than you wish for, less would be more what you need. But is there a dimension beyond the normal aesthetic and musical boundaries?

From Blog Thursday 6 may. Get more power by slowing down. Is your computer running screaming hot? EAM and live-electronics puts demand on your laptop. The much celebrated OSX Turbo boost seemingly speeds things up but you need to be cautious. If the CPU gets too hot your sound will glitch because the processor hits the brakes, thermal throttling. If you suspect you have this problem try Turbo Boost Switcher Pro. Limiting the processor speed actually can give you "more".

Turbo Boost Switcher for OSX / macOS Turbo Boost Switcher for macOS. Save battery of your Mac, cool your CPU and reduce fans noise

From Blog Monday 26 April. Happy faces all around as exciting artistic ideas is discussed. Can we really do music playing over a network, Sweden to France. So far tests imply great challenges induced by latency and sync problems. We concluded to team up one-on-one for further test and sum it up in a meeting during latter half of may.

From Blog Wednesday 21 apr. Do you need an extended version of airplay? Airserver got some interesting tweeks, and a 30-day free trial. Make a wireless hub for your soundsystem and projector, or get your ipad on your computers desktop.

AirServer Connect - The Most Advanced Screen Mirroring Receiver AirPlay + Google Cast + Miracast. AirServer Connect can transform a simple big screen or a projector into a universal screen mirroring receiver.

From Blog Wednesday 14 April. How about doing the numbers on a different machine and let yours shine..... running into useful spinoffs, same same but different. Could this plug-in to server host be a future solution to low latency interaction?
Audiogridder is now in BETA, it´s free to try it.

AudioGridder – DSP servers using general purpose networks and computers AudioGridder is a network bridge for audio and MIDI that allows for offloading the DSP processing of audio plugins to remote computers. This can come in handy when mixing complex projects or running CPU intensive instruments.

From Blog Wednesday 7 apr. Sending controllers via UDP, a simple (!) way to use Max/MSP or M4L as a go-between between computers, audiointerfaces and controllers. In this test we sent midi/OSC on UDP and audio on a digital link. Fun and easy, and yes there was some interesting music done.

From the blog Wednesday 24 mar, another twist on remote music work. Check this lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-15Gw4F6aM from PD wiz Miller Pucket and his interface for net realtime one-on-one work with a percussion player. There is also a great sum from CDM here https://cdm.link/2021/03/miller-puckette-creator-of-max-and-pd-on-how-hes-patching-his-way-to-remote-collaboration/

IRCAM Forum Workshops: Keynote by Miller Puckette "Modular software and remote workflows" by Miller Puckette. More info: https://forum.ircam.fr/article/detail/biographies-abstracts/

How about these lot of tools from Blog Tuesday 23 mar. Get https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/jacktrip/osx/index.html, audio only. Or nice looking freeware project https://sonobus.net/. Our music sessions is getting swamped with choices.

SonoBus Connects multiple users together to send and receive audio among all in a group, with fine-grained control over latency, quality and overall mix. Includes optional input compression, noise gate, and EQ effects, along with a master reverb. All settings are dynamic, network statistics are clearly visi...

Two networking tools a day keep the ......... away? From Blog Monday 22 mar. Someone's suggested to use Skype for multichanneling of sound, and 2nd to use the OBS studio to patch it together. Hm, we need to figur this out.....How about you?

How do you play music in lock-down? From Blog Sunday 21 mar even more on net interaction tools. 1st a work-in-progress that needs compilation of assets, https://github.com/dlandon86. And another based on the steady NDI protocol, https://github.com/pixsperdavid/jit.ndi for MAX/MSP/Jitter. Let's throw them into the mix, stay tuned for results.

pixsperdavid/jit.ndi Implementation of NewTek NDI protocol for Cycling 74's Max - pixsperdavid/jit.ndi

How do you do your rehearsals? Not or by a digital network? From the Blog Saturday 20 mars. More tools for musical web interaction. 1st has been around for a while, https://www.zachpoff.com/software/network-audio-transmitter/ with MAX/MSP source code. The 2nd is rather new, https://jamulus.io/. We'll add these for coming tests of musical exploration on remote by Tibblin and Bjelkeborn.

Jamulus ‒ Play music online. With friends. For free. Jamulus is open source software which enables musicians to perform music, rehearse or just jam, all in real time over the Internet.

From the Blog Friday 19 mar. Mentor Kåre Hjelm SPL prod AB, source of big knowledge about state of the art audio tech. Adviser since 30 years for Thomas Bjelkeborn´s big scale projects, like Touchdown Hultsfred festival 10-years, The dancing Excavators for the new Museum of modern Art Stockholm and the Solitude Silence at Nuit Blanche Paris. Now he's giving us input and contacts for a flying start.

SPL Produktion AB Per den 1 november så lämnar SPL över distributionen av L-Acoustics i Sverige till Matrix Sales AB. Läs hela pressreleasen här.

What tools do you use for musical web interaction? From the Blog Thursday 18 mar, beta projects try direct sound-to-net connections for "zero" latency, eyeing the beta Aloha from Elk Audio. But we'll start tests of Zoom with Martin Jonsson Tibblin in his Södertälje studio and Thomas Bjelkeborn in Studio84 Stureby

Aloha - Elk Audio OS . . . Get in touch and find out how you can be part of Aloha

From the Blog Wednesday 17 mars. Meetup on how to organise the Pre-study and what artistic ideas to research on. We decided to look for webtools to do online ensemble soundwork and to look into possible partner institutions. Martin Jonsson Tibblin, Thomas Bjelkeborn, Philippe Moenne-Loccoz and Laurence Bouckaert.