I put some music together this winter which you can hear on soundcloud:
It features both some neural audio decollage and the voice of Jessa Carter. The decollage works with the material of Four Tet and Burial’s Moth and recomposes the track by John Tejada – Farther and Fainter.… Continue reading...
I had a chance to incorporate some udpates into Memory Mosaic, an iOS app I started developing during my PhD in Audiovisual Scene Synthesis. The app organizes sound in real-time and clusters them based on similarity. Using the microphone on the device, or an iTunes song, any onset triggers a new audio segment to be created and stored in a database. The example video below shows how this works for Do Make Say Think’s song, Minim and The Landlord is Dead:
Memory Mosaic iOS from Parag K Mital on Vimeo.
Here’s an example of using it with live instruments
Memory Mosaic – Technical Demo (iOS App) from Parag K Mital on Vimeo.
The app also works with AudioBus, meaning you can use it with other apps too, adding effects chains, or sampling from another app’s output. Available on the iOS App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/memory-mosaic/id475759669?mt=8… Continue reading...
I’ve been interested in exploring ways of navigating media archives. Typically, you may use iTunes and go from artist to artist, or have managed to tediously classify your collection into genres. Some may still even browse their music through a file browser, perhaps making sure the folders and filenames of their collection are descriptive of the artist, album, year, etc… Though what about how the content actually sounds?
Wouldn’t it be nice to hear all music which shares similar sounds, or similar phrases of sounds? Research in the last 10-15 years have developed methods precisely to solve this problem and fall under the umbrella term content-based information retrieval (CBIR) algorithms, or uncovering the relationships of an archive through the information within the content. For images, Google’s Search by Image is a great example which only recently became public. For audio, audioDB and ShaZam are good examples of discovering music through the way it sounds, or the content-based relationships of the audio itself. Though, each of these interfaces present a list of matches to a image or audio query, making exploring the content-based relationships of a specific set of material difficult.
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Currently working on a video installation for an exciting gig on the 10th of June dubbed Neverzone. Check out the insanity on this flyer and information on the just as insane artists at Black Lantern Music
Have a look at a teaser of our upcoming show with Christos Michalakos and Lin Zhang on the 12th of April as support for Humcrush and Leverton Fox.
More information: http://www.dialogues-festival.org/2010-outlying/Humcrush… Continue reading...
Polychora stands for a 4 dimensional polytope, a connected or closed figure of lower dimesnional polytopal elements. These elements are thought of as the impulses of the piece and their combinations are intricately explored and decomposed in order to create a soundscape of particles. As an exploration of synaesthesia, the visuals are created as an audio-reactive algorithm based on brightness, panning, texture, noisiness, pitch, and their combinations. By combining the amorphous space of possible impulses and the range of sound textures, the polychoron takes a visual shape altered by the different dimensions of texture.
This piece was presented at the Soundings Festival on February 6th and 7th, 2010 (curated by Andrew Connor).
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/soundings/
Audio by Christos Michalakos: http://christosmichalakos.com/
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As part of an audio-visual collaboration, Christos Michalakos and myself have experimented with a possible rendering, Polychora, for submission to the Soundings Festival. I’m happy to announce that our piece was selected and will be presented on February 6th as part of the evening festival, 6 p.m. at the Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh, Scotland. Uploaded here are a few stills from the video:
Recorded Jan 15 2010. Have a listen:
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Marcin Kowalczyk – Alto Saxophone
Paul Keene – Electronic Keyboard
Parag K. Mital – Electric Bass Guitar
Christos-George Michalakos – Acoustic Drums & Electronics… Continue reading...
A gathering is approaching Edinburgh at the end of the month and it will include film screenings, poetry readings, art exhibitions, live electronics, live bands, live visuals, networked performances, streaming cameras and sound, brilliant people (including you), drinks, and probably a lot more at the Roxy Art House in Edinburgh from Jan 30-31. I will also be performing audio-reactive visuals during a live electronic set by Michael Baldock together with a sculptural surface by Agelos Papadakis. More details to follow but get your tickets now as they are half price this week (10 pounds for the weekend as opposed to 20 pounds). Check out more information on the website as it is being updated.… Continue reading...
So awesome: http://www.thinktunnel.com/hiptug.mov… Continue reading...
I didn’t work on the arrangement of this at all. It doesn’t even end properly.
Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – Fortune Cookie.mp3
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Autumn is beautiful in Delaware. White Clay especially.
This started off as a minimalist experiment but turned into a layered extravaganza. I am considering reworking it without drums and going with my inital minimalist vision with just the Winds and perhaps the Dyna Rhodes. As is, it has a Winds section, a Western Flute, Organ, a Shakuhachi (Japanese end-blown flute), a newspaper, footsteps coming down the stairs, a whistle, the click of a camera, and a door slam shut. Oh, and some programmed drums of course (though I didn’t spend as much time on these drums as I did in Fortune Cookie).
Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – Autumn.mp3
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I messed with the Phase rates and Envelope Frequencies until I finally got the sound in my head.
Yeah. Uhm. Here.
Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – Mad People.mp3
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Instead of eating, I decided to mess around on Reason. Bad news though. My mp3 plug-in expired and now I’m exporting to realmedia format… BLAH.
Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – The Wind Will Carry Us.rm… Continue reading...
Not that this is news to anyone. Anyways, I decided to put this up.
Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – Shamu Is Dead.mp3… Continue reading...
Yeah. My guitar was out of tune. I have a long way to go…
Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – Time Goes Backwards.mp3
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