Sequencing SuperCollider with Ableton Live using IAC and Sound Flower



The pictured, is of SuperCollider being sequenced with Ableton Live. I am using the IAC bus to transmit MIDI from Live to SuperCollider and Sound Flower to get the audio back into Live for mixing and recording. The midi coming from live contains note frequencies, on/off events, and pitch bend. The source code for the SC3 project comes mainly from the MIDIIn tutorial. I also read some back dated posts about using the SC several with alternative output devices. Below is the source code. It works in three stages:
//First initialize the midi and audio devices
(
MIDIClient.init;
//0 is iac bus internal routing from live!
MIDIIn.connect(0, 0);
//set the action:
MIDIIn.control = {arg src, chan, num, val;
val.postln;
};
Server.internal.options.device = "Soundflower (2ch)";
Server.local.options.device = "Soundflower (2ch)";
);
//next define your synth and start the server
(
MIDIIn.connect;
s = Server.local;
s.boot;
s.latency = 0;

SynthDef("sik-goo", { arg freq=400,fromfreq=100, gate=0.0, bwfreq=800;
var x;
x = Formant.ar(
SinOsc.kr(0.02,0,10,freq),
fromfreq,
bwfreq
);
x = EnvGen.kr(Env.adsr,gate,Latch.kr(gate,gate)) * x;
Out.ar(0,x);
}).send(s);
);
//finally link the midi actions to the defined synth parameters
(
x = Synth("sik-goo");
// action;
MIDIIn.noteOn = {arg src,chan,num,vel;
x.set(\freq,num.midicps /4.0);
x.set(\gate, vel / 200);
x.set(\formfreq, vel / 127 *1000 );
};
MIDIIn.noteOff = { arg src,chan,num,vel;
x.set(\gate, 0.0);
};
MIDIIn.bend = { arg src,chan,val;
x.set(\bwfreq,val * 0.048828125 );
};
);

// cleanup
x.free;


What follows is blatant commercialism, thwarted by technical snafu:


Bandcamp !

Just in time for the holidays, Bandcamp come through with tracks for you! Not just is another indie music site, band camp lets artists sell their music online for free and a variety of network tracking statistics features. The layout is stylish, and unfettered by extraneous advertisements. They also have a flexible pricing structure for downloads. And to top it all off their widget has a neat-o 3D visualizer, very similar to what I used to do back in the with wings3d and pd at spin jam :

<a href="http://djcypod.bandcamp.mu/track/virtual-rave">virtual rave by djcypod</a>



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splash from the dottedfields set

here's a little taste of what it was like at the zoo:

Electronet podcast5 - Interactive music

New Episode of the Electronet now online featuring music by Dottedfields, Assemblea, Zygote, and a telephone interview with LX Rudis on the subject of Interactive Music:



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SanFranDisco Playlist

listen to the new tunepak featuring:

DR. TOAST
DARKAT
AUDIOVOID & LAYERZ
BLVD
GLITCH MOB - BORETA
3'OHTREE

click to access player

tclingPython


tclingPython
Originally uploaded by cypod
web comics for extreme neirds.

Tremolo Audio Unit




I have been working with the SuperCollider audio Units Wrapper. The plug-in is a basic tremolo unit, suitable for an effects send bus. It has a nice clean sound, and you can automate the modulation frequency. Available for download here

http://www.archive.org/download/TremoloAudioUnit/tremolo.zip

and learn more about creating your own Audio Units Effect:
http://supercolliderau.sourceforge.net/

To install simply download and place in the /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components of the system or your home directory. Then restart your audio units compatible host. I have tried it with Ableton Live and AU Lab, and had a lot of success.

Dottedfields to perform at BookZoo

Saturday, Dec 6 2008 8:00 PM

Book Zoo
6395 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, California 94609

dotted fields came to life out of a series of exchanges built around one chance encounter. The two men who resided in the same region, built upon similar sounds, and moved across country at the same time, accidentally met at a small show in an art gallery on a dreary night. From that one instance a series of sonic exchange sessions began. It was those sessions that gave birth to the dotted fields.

Band Members Andrew Kaluzynski & the battery davis

http://www.myspace.com/dottedfields

Cost : $0-$20, pass-the-hat.

Hubris on youtube

after getting 3000+ views on archive.org Hubris finally comes to you tube

Ashes live @ the Luggage Store Gallery SF

Cypod - Ashes - Cypod

Park(ing)


Eco-activists turn streets into urban pasture at local Nomad Cafe

THE EIGHTH ANNUAL TRANSBAY SKRONKATHON BBQ

THE EIGHTH ANNUAL TRANSBAY SKRONKATHON BBQ
21 Grand -- 416 25th St., Oakland, CA 94612
Sunday, July 13th - 12:00 Noon to 11:00pm - FREE

The annual Transbay Skronkathon BBQ is an all-day marathon music and BBQ
extravaganza. Admission is free, but we'll pass the hat for the benefit
of the Transbay Creative Music Calendar. We'll have a couple of charcoal
grills out in the alleyway for your food-searing pleasure (BRING STUFF
TO GRILL!) and a huge roster of the Bay Area's best creative musicians
inside for your listening pleasure.

Performance schedule:

12:00 Morgan Sully
12:25 Jay Korber
12:50 Mana: Thea and DJ Cypod
01:15 Michael Guarino, solo percussion & electronics
01:40 ANIMAL VEGETABLE TELEVISION
Ron Chornow (percussion, Found Objects, Clarinet.)
Gary Schwantes (Winds, Electronics)
02:05 Baker/Djll duo [tentative]
Jen Baker & Ron Heglin (trombones),
possibly with Tom Djll (trumpet)
02:30 Respectable Citizen
Bruce Bennett (keyboards and electronics),
Michael Zbyszynski (Winds and electronics)
02:55 Sophisticuffs
Jeremy Kearney (bass), Micaela Petersen (drums),
Errol Stewart (guitar)
03:20 Dan Plonsey
03:45 Dirty Patina
Thomas Scandura (drums),
Morgan Guberman (bass),
Gene Baker (trumpet)
04:10 League of Art Game composers
Luke Selden, Cole Ingraham, Peter Musselman,
Chad McKinney, Curtis McKinney
04:35 Yoyo Mama
Sandra Yolles (electronic percussion),
Bob Marsh (electric strings, voice and tap shoes)
05:00 Headloss
05:25 Polly Moller & Co.
Polly Moller, Amar Chaudhary, Bill Wolter, Jim Carr
05:50 Chris Brown & James Fei
06:15 Hydrogen Pellets [tentative]
Cactus Daniel Hintz & Elvis Johnson (both electronics)
06:40 John Shiurba (guitar) & Scott Rosenberg (reeds)
07:05 Jon Raskin (sax) & Kanoko Nishi (koto)
07:30 lx rudis (electronics)
07:55 RTD3
Ron Heglin (brass),
Tom Nunn (percussion),
Doug Carroll (cello)
08:20 KINDA GREEN: Tom Djll (trumpet), Tim Perkis (electronics)
accompanying archival recordings of John Cage readings.
08:45 REEL CHANGE with Dada films
09:30 Jorrit Dijkstra & Phillip Greenlief (alto saxes)
09:55 Ba-NewMus Discussion List Duo
Ava Mendoza (guitar), Moe Staiano (percussion)

BONUS! SL Morse: Sarah Lockhart (drums), Suki O'Kane (tuned percussion)
and Aurora (vocals), scheduled at their leisure in the
afternoon in the street by God's Gym.

Location: 21 Grand (415 25th Street, Oakland)

The Transbay Creative Music Calendar is a newsletter devoted to
experimental music in the Bay Area. Published monthly, it's four to
six pages of lively coverage, including features, artistic rants,
reviews and announcements of music so far out that you won't hear
about it anywhere else. It's available free at many local music venues
and independent record stores, and is mailed free of charge to anyone
interested enough to subscribe. The entire contents are also available
over the world-wide web at www.transbaycalendar.org.

Garden of Memory

2008 Garden of Memory

New Music Bay Area and Lifemark Group Arts present Garden of Memory 2008: a walk-through concert to celebrate the summer solstice

Saturday 21 June from 5 to 9 PM

at Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave., in Oakland.

Admission is $12 general, $8 students and seniors, $5 kids under 12 (kids under 5 are free). Tickets available from www.brownpapertickets.com.

For information, contact New Music Bay Area at listings@newmusicbayarea.org.

http://www.gardenofmemory.com/

Black Market Techno

June, 21 2008

Audio: Eric Johnston (Wolf+Lamb, Esperanza, Detroit) Kenneth Scott (Auralism) + dCOY, Farzana, Razvan & IXD

Visual: Cypod

Club Oasis
135 12th st, Oakland, California 94607
Cost : $10
http://www.myspace.com/blackmarkettechno

Battle for sale on Emusic

Battle on Emusic
Compilation Cover Art
Laptop Battle Compilation now for sale on Emusic!

http://www.emusic.com/album/Various-Artists-Daly-City-Sf-Laptop-Machine-Battle-2007-MP3-Download/11166161.html?tafisnid=5921E05AACD2EBB184CA3046AA5397A7&fref=300030

Itunes Podcast id = 282037543

Scoring another hit within the itunes podcast directory, Cypod now searchable in the itunes podcast directory:




http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=282037543

Cypod Remix Microphonepet

Listen to the Cypod remix of Microphonepet:





http://www.dalycityrecords.com/remixmicpet/remixes/mochipet-(cypod_resonant_flow_mix).mp3

Maker Faire 2008: Music

Over view of music at the maker faire music makers with some nice footage

SF Laptop & Machine Battles Compilation Now on Itunes

SF Laptop & Machine Battles Compilation now for sale on itunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=274378402&s=143441

Ghetto Grey Water

With the Oakland water rationing in place, I kept the washing machine's water in a rubber trash can. Then I transfered it into re-used juice bottles for watering the garden and washing my car. 

Music Schedule Announced for the Maker Faire


SATURDAY 5/3 - MUSIC TENT STAGE 1 (WEST LOT)
11:00-12:00 TripKnight
12:30-1:00 TripKnight
2:30-3:30 Total Annihilation
4:00-5:00 Microfiche
6:00-6:30 Gowns
6:30-7:00 TradeMark's Wheel of Mashup
7:00-8:00 Culann's Hounds
8:00-8:30 TradeMark's Wheel of Mashup
8:30-9:30 Abney Park

SUNDAY 5/4 - MUSIC TENT STAGE 1 (WEST LOT)
12:30-1:30 Cypod and LX Rudis
2:30-3:00 Toychestra
4:00-4:30 LoopStation
5:00-6:00 Kid Beyond

SATURDAY 5/3 - MUSIC STAGE 2 (WEST LOT)
noon-12:30 Cyclecide
1:00-2:00 Lemon Lime Lights
3:30-4:00 Cyclecide
5:00-6:00 Ballistic Cats
8:00-8:30 Monkeybike
9:30-10:00 Monkeybike

SUNDAY 5/4 – MUSIC STAGE 2 (WEST LOT)
12:00-12:30 Cyclecide
1:30-2:00 Guitar Zeros
3:30-4:00 Cyclecide
4:30-5:00 Cyclecide

SATURDAY 5/3 - HUMAN POWERED STAGE – MUSIC STAGE 3 (SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CENTRAL MALL)
1:00-2:00 Extra Action Marching Band (unamplified)
2:30-3:00 Ira Marlowe
4:30-5:00 Onyx Ashanti
5:30-6:00 Shake Your Peace!
6:30-7:00 La Malamaña
8:00-8:30 Fossil Fool

SUNDAY 5/4 - HUMAN POWERED STAGE – MUSIC STAGE 3 (SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CENTRAL MALL)
12:00-12:30 John F. King II (unamplified)
1:00-1:30 Tarantulas Jug Band
2:00-2:30 Crank Ensemble
3:00-3:30 McPuzo & Trotsky
4:00-4:30 Lee Maverick Band

SATURDAY 5/3 - MAIN STAGE (FIESTA HALL)
6:00-7:00 Laser Harp
7:30-8:30 Art Lessing & The Flower Vato

SATURDAY 5/3 - FESTIVAL STAGE (CENTRAL MALL PLAZA STAGE)
1:30-4:00 Diet Coke & Mentos setup
4:00-4:45 Diet Coke & Mentos fountains
6:00-7:00 Swap-O-Rama-Rama Fashion Show

SUNDAY 5/4 - FESTIVAL STAGE (CENTRAL MALL PLAZA STAGE)
12:00-1:00 Devil-Ettes
1:00-3:30 Diet Coke & Mentos setup
4:00-4:45 Diet Coke & Mentos fountains

SATURDAY 5/3 - MAKER MADE STAGE (EXPO HALL)
11:30-2:30 Presentations (various)
3:00-3:30 Rabbit's Rum
3:30-4:00 Maker Sessions
4:00-6:00 Heather Gold Show

SUNDAY 5/4 - MAKER MADE STAGE (EXPO HALL)
11:30-2:00 Presentations (various)
2:30-3:00 Stanford Laptop Orchestra
3:00-3:30 Maker Sessions
3:30-4:00 Loud Objects
4:00-6:00 Heather Gold Show

Maker Faire 2008

Cypod scheduled to play at this years maker faire. Stay tuned for more details:

See me at Maker Faire!

VJ for the Kids


Cypod to man the projector for the Saklan Annual Concert at the Walnut Creek Lesher Theatre.

Capitalize all folder names with python

#!/usr/bin/python

import commands
import os

x = commands.getoutput('ls')

for y in x.split():
z = y.capitalize()
if y != z :
....cmdr = "mv " + y + " " + z
....print cmdr
....os.system(cmdr)

SF Laptop Battle CD out on Daly City Records

SF Laptop & Machine Battles 2007 US Shipping / $10.00
Cat: DCR123
Label: Daly City Records
Release Date: 03/11/2008
Format: CD
Artist include:

BlipVert
Nosaj Thing
Nezzy Idy
MattyBoJangles
Many IIz
Darkat
Cypod
Laskfar Vortok
Deep Cuts
Evan Morris
Starpause
Kevin Shea Adams
D-Rex
Whormongr
Jasper Reeder

Listen and Purchase

WARNING: Explicit Lyrics, listern discretion is adviced

Backyard Garage


Garage
Originally uploaded by cypod
4 New Water Color Pencil Sketches added. High resolution scans from my personal sketchbook have been published online. I have been working on these sketches through the autumn and winter, and recently coluorized them. See all now at:

http://www.flickr.com/gp/82386892@N00/kv2E14

10 reason's I like COMPUSA more than etail

1. No one bothers you, the sales staff never even talk to you - don't believe me - try getting some one to show you one of the manager special/broken display model cameras

2. Instant gratification, don' have to wait for shipping

3. It's closer than fry's

4. wher else can you scoff at technology and feel superior

5. I can't think of anymore, maybe thats why their going out of business.

Emusician kicks down some cabinets


No not the base booming type, the office furniture variety. Now we'll have a place to put all techno-gadgets when we're done playing with them. So thank you Electronic musician for help us organize the rehearsal space!

PureData video Mixer tutorial

New video on how to created a videomixer using Pure Data. Available for download from archive.org and youtube