Released a new plug-in : Philodendron ! Here you can find the download page, if you are curious you can read more info on the development in this project page.
Picture Materials :
Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bronze Cast of Pope Gregory XV (personal photo)
Lorenzo Lotto - Madonna with Child between Sts. Flavian and Onuphrius (crop of mary's red sleeve)
16 Colors Riemersma Dithering
The picture of Lorenzo Lotto's painting I've found online seems to be a scan of a print instead of a photo of the painting itself (you can see a slight pattern, probably CYMK print).
I was a bit sad about not founding a sharper picture, but this pattern led to interesting results in the final collage.
I found those material when I recently been to an art exhibition about Borghese's collection. Although the man seems so be much despicable, his (inherited) fortune have enable him to develop a distinct taste for art.
Been wanting to experiment with png's and non-square compositions. I've hestitated to add a "modern" element in the collage as counterpoint, but the method and tools used are already the counterpoint.
For the sound part, I'm back at trying Ableton's session mode, and it's been really fun. The chopped voice is just me imitating a chopped voice sample in front of the microphone.
The staccato choir is my voice. Most of other things is default ableton stuff (Arp 5th sample for the lead synth, 505 kit for the rythm, 808 bass).
Ah yes and DECAPITATOR ~ ON ~ THE ~
MASTER - (a slight touch)
The left panel is a zoom in the sky of Die Toteninsel. The glass photo is composited in difference, layered upon a semi-opaque Ophelia, leaving a glimpse of Böcklin's painting.
The main bell-ish sound is a sampled metal baking bowl (the kind where you mix the dough in).
Here is the midi file ( .mid ) of the melody.
The percussion are my nails on my computer, recorded trought said computer microphone. I'm rather fascinated by my nail's noise, as I used to be picking them all the time and just recently stoped for a few months, making them unusually long and noisy.
J'ai quitté cette île
et son batelier
Il refusait d'embarquer
d'autre bateaux que le sien
J'ai quitté ce batelier
j'ai quitté son île
Il eu été vain
de le convaincre
Pour moi
Il ne fût que ce refut
Pour lui
sa barque fût son seul refuge
Au loin
je ne discerne plus son visage
Un autre a fuit son île
un autre fuira sa barque
Un autre a fuit son île
un autre fuira sa barque
Il attend qu'un jour
la mer l'engloutisse
En sombrant
aura-t-il une pensée
pour son île
pour sa barque brisée
pour le silence
qu'il laissera aux palmiers
Inspired by the boatman in The Buried Giant, a Kazuo Ishiguro novel, and by the fictional sailors described by Dominique Scali in Les marins ne savent pas nager, which doesn't seem to be translated in English
Recently I've read seven nights by Borges, and been fascinated by the recurring concept of "instantaneous perception of the essence vs. sequential fragmented perception of the whole".
Added info and experimentation on ImageMagick.
Collaboration with Valentine Semadeni, she sent me the collage, I made the music in answer.
Heavily compressed breathing.
The image comes from comparing a picture with a blurred version of itself.
I was mangling with dithering in touch designer, instead of using a noise pattern as the dithering reference, I used smaller version of the image, and at some point, the image itself.
The lyrics are the beginning of the song Tea for Two chanté (entre autre) par Doris Day :
Picture me upon your knee
With tea for two and two for tea
With me for you and you for me
Alone
The piano sample is from And Now the Queen of the Paul Bley Trio.
At the end, you can hear the prototype of a new vst coming soon, its name is Philodendron, it lets you mess with a ringbuffer.
Some smiles are flowing around me
Some Music :
Attempt at a lettering.
Added articles about tape history and delay line reverberation.
The original texture is a photo of the leaking roof of the parisian underground.
The sound is made with Meld, an Ableton synth, and a fragment of sound I recorded on an 1/4" tape about a year ago.
(that I recognized later as being a sample of scooter, a Lolo Zouaï song).
Lyrics :
La journée s'est déroulée en plusieurs étapes
Ils ont commencé par un test de Rorschach
Il y avait dans la cour une odeur nauséabonde
The synth at the beginning is a companion to the orca sequencer I'm developing with rust. Altought not finished, Laminaria code source is here, just cargo run to launch it.
The lyrics is an extract from a poem of Goethe. I don't actually speak german, it's probably gibberish for a native speaker.
German
Ihr naht euch wieder, schwankende Gestalten,
Die früh sich einst dem trüben Blick gezeigt.
Versuch ich wohl, euch diesmal festzuhalten?
Fühl ich mein Herz noch jenem Wahn geneigt?
English
You approach again, wavering figures,
Who once showed themselves early to the dull gaze.
Will I try to hold on to you this time?
Do I still feel my heart inclined to that delusion?
French
Vous vous approchez de nouveau, figures chancelantes,
qui, jadis, se sont montrés aux regards.
Vais-je essayer de vous retenir cette fois ?
Est-ce que je sens mon cœur pencher encore vers cette illusion ?
Interesting pattern with the 2x2 dither pattern.
Upper right is a photo of a dried Ginkgo leaf. The background is a sky photo found on the internet.
The text says "I'll be gone for a few days".
Are our languages too rooted in the realities from which they originate to describe new ones?
Are our fictions limited by our discribing tools ?
How can we explain a place with an additional dimention ?
An emotion that doesn't exist ?
Should we craft new languages to describe new worlds ?
Finally began using Orca, here controlling the PolyBrute via CC.
The image is a dithered photo of my notebook, this geometrical form is made by the repetition of a letter
I had a fun time rediscovering my launchpad X, the custom layers let you use sliders and toggles.
It is here mapped on Granulator III :
A slider on the position
A slider on the grain size
A toggle on variation (toggle for abrupt changes)
A toggle on the record button
I used the microphone of my laptop, singing drone note, and a piano sample.
There is three layers, played live, no other effects involved.
The gif comes from playing around this tutorial about how to
slice a font.
The music is largely inspired by this incredible album
by Kali Malone, especially by All life long, a very slow organ piece.
I make use of ableton new synth: Meld, and it's MPE capabilities for note-based pan and pitch automation. I then layered
an ambience I took with my phone in a waiting line (streched and FFTed).
The image is an extruded text SOP copied by a grid I streched in a parallelepiped by grouping
the higher point and displacing them using the point SOP.
I then added a second Geometry COMP that contain the height displaced noise.
You can fin out more on height displacement using phong on this blog post.
Other than that, I've been working on my mapping research paper (found a lot of thing), making UI for VSTs and learning
Rust for fun, used it to experiment on making a text controlled synth, learned a bunch of things on thread safety, data
concurrency, mutex and channels.
Made a weird instrumental from an old jazz sample, sprinkled strange text over it :
Tried some font displacement, the texture used for displacement is a ramp (100 periods) added to low resolution and high
contrast noise (10x10), the font is Brogetta
regular The deformation is inspired by This PPPANIK tutorial
Made some hydra patches you can find in a newly created Hydra sketches page.
I decided to put all the rendering in one page to save on some loading time in the blog pages.
I tried to make music with only ableton looper and a guitar, It was suprisingly hard, I'm so used to guitar being put
through thousands of effects that dry guitar seems quite underwhelming.
Had fun and managed to do some funny loops after a few experimentations.
The funny gong like sound comes from the switch being toggled while I hold a chord, it exite the resonance of the
guitar, I quite like this discovery.
Some Music :
Used Ableton Looper and learned how to turn an image into particles thanks to this video from
PPPANIC that I summed in the TouchDesigner Knowledge page.
You can download the project here.
Surprisingly, exporting a gif and compressing it is not that easy (the image below is 6mb, the grainyness doesn't
help though).
I'd love to make video clips to post here but it would be way to large for my selfconscious use of others
bandwidth...
Could gif clips be an adequate answer ?
Some Music :
I made a component emulating data-moshing by combining multiple tutorials and adding my own ideas, it's not a very good
"data-moshing" effect, but it's a nice effect nonetheless.
Tutorials used :
This is a merge of a sea and a waterfall with it (mind there is added jpeg compression).
Source for the code
I used this website to generate the SVG path
Unrelated : found a website to make ascii schematics it is called TexTik.
Having a quite effervecent brain these time.
Some of it take roots in my current reading :
Presets - Digital
Shortcuts to Sound by Stefan Goldmann~ A book about composing sounds in those time of digital
efficiency, touching on the question of norm and possibility in the creative realm.
which is a good
speculative fiction and develop a lot of playful methaphysical ideas. In a kind of Borgesian way, seeking an new way
of seeing what has always been here.
Some ideas in a chaotic space -
Does asynchronicity in dialog, by adding to the time dedicated to reflection, add to the quality of the ideas ?
Or the other way around, the quick exchange of ideas allow for a more thorough exploration of possibilities
(including impasses, which can be as valuable)?
Will mass usage of cloud storage lead to a potential monumental loss of data ?
Only the people having archived data on local drive perduring in history.
I should try to map velocity to the delay time.
How to explore the narrative potential of using tools.
The eternal fight between horizontality and verticality, in all possible meanings and contexts.
The more I think about complex, large scale systems, the more I realize “goals” are a very unimportant feature of
their behavioral profile.
From RibbonFarm
Does this also apply to human being, which are good exemples of complex systems ?
The skeuomorphism is often shown as a bad exemple of UX, some people tend to become angry.
But what about the inherent underlying concept of interacting with knobs and slider ? Is is a technical skeumorphism ?
Much of was as been done is a kind of emulation. might as well go all the way.
But the knob seems nonetheless to be a good info/space ratio, in a glance you can have max / min / actual value.
And they are quite handy when you need to group functionality.
Things that may allow for this mere information. If you know what are the max and min of the viz, can you guess the
value?
Variable font as a potentiometre.
Changed the font of my IDE to Recursive, a variable multi-axis font.
.on the question of the relation of the artist to his tool, This
article about no-input mixing is really interestinG
curieusement Je Retombe Sur Exactement Les Concepts Que J'Utilise Pour Réfléchir.
Je recherche des Alternatives
I was thinking maybe writing straight is lame
I wanna be the cool kid with the artsy website
Je viens de découvrir que le mot aternative (in french) is about duality and binary decision, whereas, en anglais, son
acception se penche sur l'ensemble de ce qui aurait pu être possible.
Some Modification on the website : I added a RSS feed (and a short knowledge page about it) and changed the main font to Redaction
