Dear friends, I’m back with a couple of personal and musical updates. Since I’ve been on a short vacation in July, I there aren’t any major progress updates but some impressions to digest and pass on. But first of all, another announcement: 👉 An ambisonics fixed media rendering of „Arecibo“ will be played at Sonic Saturday (in cooperat...

Dear friends, welcome to this update covering the months May and June! I've been busy creating, reading, writing, and listening - so I hope there's something in here for everyone. New Service Offering Though let me inject a plug first. I've been toying with the idea of creating a service around audio branding and sound identity for pod...

Hey everyone, let's get the important news out the door first: I know only 1% of my audience will be able to attend, but... I'll be performing "Arecibo" at Moozak Multichannel @ Semmelweis Klinik on June 1, 2024. More details to follow on my social media as soon as I get them! Here's a few notes on the piece itself: “In three movements...

Dear friends, the Easter holidays delayed the writing up of my March round-up again, but here it is - finally: An Event I Enjoyed Attending My father infrequently hosts music soirées in his downtown Vienna flat. This time he invited Ukrainian pianist Denis Yavorsky to play some high romantic pieces by Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and ...

Hello everyone, I‘m a bit late with my personal newsletter for February, which is partially due to the fact that I just returned from a weekend in Graz, attending the Elevate Festival (see below) for the first time, connecting with old friends and mentors, visiting family, resorbing the city’s spirit. We need to do this more often, as ...

Dear friends, Since I’ve been asked a couple of times lately, I felt like reviving my personal newsletter. I plan it to be a monthly recap, as well as a preview of what’s coming next. So, below are a few highlights and finds of January 2024. Music I Enjoyed One discovery in January was the new album by Scanner, Alchemeia. The minimalis...

Note: this post was also published on https://reson-ai-te.com/articles/sound-art-from-ai-inspired-lutherie I have been tinkering with generative art (especially music) since around 2008. Back then, if you wanted to implement a neural network to create art-like works, you had to hand code your perceptrons using exotic Java libraries. Wh...

My family lives under the roof of a late 19th century tenement building in central Vienna. The most recent few summers - thanks to the climate catastrophe - have become unbearably hot (in the last couple of years we got just below 40C / 100F) 🥵. So we decided, instead of going with again carbon emitting air conditioning, and because th...

If we follow along with the OOP logic, it could be argued that a buffer could (or should) hold a reference to its associated BufferSoundFileView. For this, we'd need to add another subclass, like so: ViewEnhancedBuffer : Buffer { var view; view { |parent| view = BufferSoundFileView.new(parent, nil, this); ^view; } } Okay, but we still ...

Now I'm in a position to create views for my buffer collection on the fly - which is great, but I still don't have the ability to record into them, and store the respective end frame to allow looping. Doing so isn't actually that hard: SynthDef(\rec, { |in=0, bufnum=0, rec=1| var sig = SoundIn.ar(in), stopTrig = (rec <= 0), phase = Pha...

Soon I wanted to have a graphical representation of the buffers I was interacting with. Sadly, Supercollider only provides a class for sound files (SoundFileView). OOP to the rescue - we get to make our own BufferSoundFileView. Let’s first consider what our objective is here. We’d like to end up with a views property on the VBufferColl...

One of the reason I'm into Supercollider for my audio programming adventures at the moment, is that it conveniently correlates with my current day job, which mostly consists of object oriented programming in Ruby. Being both somewhat inspired by SmallTalk, they share a couple of nice features, one of them being code organization in cla...

Updated June 18, 2022 In mid June this year, my colleagues and I were able to host a little audio/visual electroacoustic festival again after a long lockdown, here is a picture: While listening to the pieces presented there, the old dialectic of gesture vs process in music started revolving in my head again. Because while I was hearing...

An underrated sociological side effect of CoVid is that it teaches us about the immediately palpable ramifications of poverty: • can‘t go on vacation • can’t meet relatives who live far(ther) away • can’t go shopping • can’t go to the cinema/theater/... • can’t throw a party • etc. Apart from many bad things this disease has done to my...

Back in December 2020 right before Christmas I skimmed through the latest recommended Kickstarter projects, and this one caught my eye: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/humanafterall/weapons-of-reason It's an anthology of thought provoking essays regarding the "world's most complex problems" by London based creative agency Human Af...

Unanticipated, HEY for World has entered the stage of web publishing platforms, and - as I believe - at a unique point in history. We are witnessing how more and more people are withdrawing themselves into their very private bubbles and echo chambers: all the more it is vital to have information and (diverging) opinions publicly availa...