Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116126904750939550

so scotch tape is literally a physical pulsar synthesizer 🤔 , and parameters are just your hand speed and tape stiffness

... the continuous/discrete properties of sound, (whether it reads as pitch or rhythm), comes from the ratio of these two timescales. ( macro-slips/mm => lfo; within each slip, hundreds of micro-cracks propagate to the tape's edge, firing a discrete pressure pulse )...

#microsound

Enkey Feb 7

C’è un momento, spesso invisibile, in cui un’interfaccia smette di essere solo qualcosa da guardare e inizia a farsi sentire. Non nel senso invadente delle notifiche continue, ma attraverso micro-suoni discreti, calibrati, quasi impercettibili. È qui che entra in gioco il micro-sound design, una disciplina sempre più centrale nella progettazione digitale contemporanea. #microsound

https://www.sagrafica.it/micro-sound-design-nelle-interfacce/

Elif Yalvac Jan 13

1 of 2 continued

TLDR: I explain some of the technical aspects and inspirations in my fresh Hypnopomp EP for curious minds.

I can say it's Flashcore, associated with “Hangar Liquides” label: experimental avant-garde side of #speedcore/hardcore(?). But I don’t want to limit it with genres because there is so much going on with sound design.

Some tracks are based on my past microsound works that I developed with Max/MSPor other times finding my own grains/particles with DAW editing limitations. The opening track “Pyrocumulus II” is an example for this: harsh DSP kicks built onto a former track I made 10 years ago with a 4-second recording of me making a popcorn. This was in my ambient album CloudScapes where each track’s named after a rare cloud ( @c.reider, there is a track called Lenticularis also!).

#microsound #curtisroads

Then the 2nd track involves a hand-made tool that I call “Freakbox”: it generates funnyrectangular waves. With speedcore transients with FM and bitcrushed samples and saturation.

#saturation #distortion #bitcrushing

Inspirations include indeed some works from abovementioned La Peste’s label, DIY labels like Cathartic Noize Experience, Ikeda, pioneers like Xenakis and Else Marie Pade, ae's overall catalog but specifically elseq 1-5, and underground dance floors especially with Equinox (Marlon Sterling) running the #scientificwax label: Also inspiring is the way some of these figures approach music, which helps me build and develop my own further.

#HangarLiquides #autechre #elsemariepade #xenakis

Many thanks for reading so far!