Archive for April, 2012

patch[042012] – Live at Cal Arts 04.28.2012

Here’s a performance of ‘patch[042012]‘ for custom electronics and laptop, performed as part of the California Electronic Music Exchange Concert series (CEMEC). This event took place at California Institute of the Arts on April 28, 2012 in the Roy O. Disney Concert Hall.

patch[04242012] – modular synth / laptop improvisation

Rehearsal for California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts on 4.27.2012 and 4.28.2012

Using custom hardware (pucktronix tabulaRasa and snake.corral, etc) and software – http://www.gregsurges.com/

News – 4/21/2012

Some news:

  • My short paper “DIY Hybrid Analog/Digital Modular Synthesis” – which covers the USB-Octomod, tabulaRasa, and snake.corral –  has been accepted for NIME 2012, and I will present a poster version at the conference. The conference runs from May 21 – 23, in Ann Arbor, MI.
  • I will perform 4/27 at UCSD and 4/28 as part of the California Electronic Music Exchange Concert series.
  • Finally, I’ve started posting some live coding videos:

tabulaRasa V 1.03

The new tabulaRasa interface.

tabulaRasa V 1.03 software is available at https://bitbucket.org/pucktronix/tabularasa/downloads and adds the ability to load a folder full of samples into the interface with one click of the new “folder” button in the lower left.

tabulaRasa user demos

Here are two new tabulaRasa demos:

From Clarke Robinson (who designed the panel in the video), using a set of vocal waveforms, no effects:

From Greg Davis, using tables composed of mixed harmonically-related sinusoids, through a filter, and a delay:

pucktronix Absolute Pitch Trainer Software

Here’s a link to download a little absolute pitch ear training program I recently completed.

It associates pitch chroma with visual colors, tracks your performance over time, allows you to experiment with different timbres, and allows you to save data in a simple text format for outside processing.

The interface.

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