c74 app update, now also for iPad!

c74 has finally been updated to version 1.4, adding lots of new
objects, features and bug fixes. The update requires you to download the
v1.4 external. Please make sure that Max won’t still use the old one
(so delete the previous version). A full list of changes :

Fixed :
– Appearance on sliders
– Better multitouch support for screen background
– Some bugs regarding the image commands
– Path issues on images

Added :
– iPad support, app is now Universal.
– multislider object
– XY object
– kslider object
– textedit object
– messagebox object
– umenu object
– Webbrowser object
– Font support
– Microphone attribute, sends the iPhone/iPads average microphone value.
– Menu attribute, hide the menu triangle at the bottom of the screen.
– Rotate attribute, prevents the app from rotating screen content
– App now sends interface orientation
– Ability to query url’s (e.g. content of php file) with url message
– sfrecord message that records audio of a given duration on the iOS
device (currently only in .caf format, which can’t be read by neither
buffer~ or sfplay~ …)
– sfplay message that plays audio on the iOS device

Known issues :
– Grabbing images might cause c74 to disconnect, memory issues (on iPhone 4)
– sfrecord message is in an experimantal stage.

To be added in v1.5 :
– gyroscope support (implementation will end compatibility with iOS 3.2)
– poll rate on sensors
– forward remote device data (for instance headset buttons)
– suggestions ?

Some links :
http://www.itunes.com/apps/c74 Link to the iTunes store
http://www.nr74.org/c74/c74v14.zip This is where you’ll find the new external
http://www.nr74.org/c74/c74v14.pdf Often requested, a manual on how to connect and play with c74 (includes list of objects/commands)

Leo

Max/Msp book available now!



Alessandro Cipriani – Maurizio Giri


ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN

Theory and Practice with Max/MSP – Vol. I

Translation by David Stutz

Figures produced by: Gabriele Cappellani


Interactive Examples: Francesco Rosati


Index: Salvatore Mudanò




More than 500 pages, interactive examples, hundreds of patches, online
support, theory and Max/MSP glossary, test, reverse engineering
exercises, analyses, completion and correction of patches, etc.

Chapter I – Introduction to Sound Synthesis and Signal Processing

Chapter II – Additive Synthesis


Chapter III – Subtractive Synthesis


Chapter IV – Controls and LFO

Structured
for use in university courses, the book is an overview of the theory
and practice of Max/MSP, with a glossary of terms and suggested tests
that allow students to evaluate their progress. Comprehensive online
support, running parallel to the explanations in the book, includes
hundreds of sample patches, analyses, interactive sound-building
exercises, and reverse engineering exercises. This book will provide a
reader with skill and understanding in using Max/MSP for sound design
and musical composition.

Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 will include digital
audio and sampled sounds, delay lines (echo, loops, flangers, chorus
effects, phasers, pitch shifting, reverse, comb filters, allpass
filters, Karplus-Strong algorithm), MIDI and realtime control, dynamic
processors (compressors, expanders, gates, limiters), reverb and
spatialization, Max for Live, non-linear synthesis (AM, RM, FM, PM, PD
and non-linear distortion), granular synthesis and formant synthesis,
convolution, analysis and resynthesis, micromontage and concatenative
sound synthesis, physical modeling, and jitter for audio.

INTRODUCTION by Alessandro Cipriani and Maurizio Giri


For info click here




EMaSD – Electronic Music and Sound Design Interactive Examples Vol. 1 from Franz Rosati on Vimeo.


A short video of the Interactive Examples Application by Francesco Rosati

http://www.virtual-sound.com/en/

The San Francisco Tape Music Festival! Jan 7-9, 2011



sfSound and the San Francisco Tape Music Collective present
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival
January 7, 8, and 9, 2011
Southside Theater, Fort Mason Center
http://sfSound.org/tape

America’s only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival returns this January 7th, 8th, and 9th, 2011 at Southside Theater in Fort Mason Center.  Curated by sfSound’s SF Tape Music Collective, the festival features three distinct evenings of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 20 local and international composers.  The collective is one of the major proponents of live sound projection, and the members, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system consisting of 16+ high-end loudspeakers while the audience is seated in complete darkness.  It’s a unique opportunity to experience music forming – literally – around you. 

This year features a special appearance by sound diffusion guru, Jonty Harrison, visiting from Birmingham, England.  Harrison is the director of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theater), which for the past three decades has perfected the art of live surround-sound diffusion.  For the festival’s Sunday concert, Harrison will present a retrospective of his works spanning from 1982 to 2004.  This is a rare opportunity to experience a master at work, and should not be missed!

The two other concerts on the festival feature a diverse range of music the festival is known for: a rarely heard early work by Pierre Boulez;  well-known masterpieces by Jean-Claude Risset, and Francis Dhomont; a turntable-based piece by sound artist Christian Marclay; modern acousmatic works by international composers Adrian Moore, Dixie Treichel, Donal Sarsfield, and Ilya Y. Rostovstev; and a few experimental cuts from the 80’s electro-pop group, The Art of Noise.

The festival is also remembering the work of German avant garde composer Mauricio Kagel and American sound-structalist Maryanne Amacher, both extremely talented and important composers that the tape music community recently lost. 

As in past annual SF Tape Music Festivals, this year’s festival features new works by a diverse selection of local music, including field-recording based pieces by Paul Dresher, Thom Blum, Cliff Caruthers, and Heather Frasch; noise-works by bran(…)pos and Kyle Bruckmann; and acousmatic pieces by Matt Ingalls, and Silvia Matheus.

The annual San Francisco Tape Music Festival — It’s cinema for your ears!

THE SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011 (Jan 7-9, 2011)
Southside Theater
Fort Mason Center
Building D
Marina Blvd. and Buchanan St., San Francisco
8pm, $15 [$8 underemployed] each night
$30 3-day festival pass
http://sfSound.org/tape

PROGRAM

FRIDAY 8pm
Mauricio Kagel – Antithèse (1962)
Jean-Claude Risset – Sud (1985)
Christian Marclay – Jukebox Capriccio (1985)
Paul Dresher – Other Fire (1984)
bran(…)pos – Pinball Paneer 2 (2010)
Silvia Matheus – Crossings (2006)
Adrian Moore – Superstrings (1999)

SATURDAY 8pm
Pierre Boulez – Étude (1951)
The Art of Noise – Flesh in Armour (1983)
Maryanne Amacher – Synaptic Island (excerpt) (1998)
Francis Dhomont – Vol d’arondes (2001)
Thom Blum – Post from Rajasthan (2007)
Kyle Bruckmann – Orgone Accelerator (2010)
Cliff Caruthers – Open Door (2011)
Matt Ingalls – poem (2011)
Heather Frasch – Sonic Postcard: Philly (2010)
Ilya Y. Rostovtsev – Understatements.[i] (2010)
Donal Sarsfield – Of Noise Alone (2010)
Dixie Treichel – Interstellar Espionage (2007)

SUNDAY 8pm
Jonty Harrison IN PERSON!!!
       diffusing a concert of his own works:
Klang (1982)
…et ainsi de suite… (1992)
Rock’n’Roll (2004)
Streams (1999)
Hot Air (1995)

funded in part by:
The San Francisco Grants for the Arts and The Aaron Copland Fund for Music
equipment provided by:
The Paul Dresher Ensemble and Meyer Sound
“co-presented” sponsorship by KFJC 89.7 FM

http://sfSound.org/tape