👋Hey everybody! I'm new on sonomu.club and i want to do a little #introduction of myself:

I'm Philipp von Neumann, a composer-performer of #computermusic 💻🔊. I'm very much interested in #soundsynthesis, algorithmic structures and experimental approaches to form.

I'm here to find a community of like-minded people that share similar values🚩🏴‍☠️ and interests.

I'm also a curator of concerts for #experimental #electronicmusic and i'm always searching for new music.

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Another wonderful interview by @savetz, this time with Tom Zimmerman, part of the four-person team at Atari that worked on the never-released AMY sound chip: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_AMY

Tom comes across as an absolute gentleman.

His description of what the AMY could do is terrific. It synthesised audio using up to 16 oscillators for the fundamental and harmonics to build rich, complex sounds. It could also be run "in reverse"; quoting Wikipedia:

An input sample could be run through a Fast Fourier transform to extract the spectral pattern, and then that pattern could be input to the AMY to set up the oscillators.

Tom contrasts the AMY's design against FM synths like the #YamahaDX7 and sample-based synthesizers.

Tom's words of wisdom at the end of the interview are wonderful too. A recommended listen, even if #Atari isn't your thing.

https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-431-tom-zimmerman-amy-chip

#RetroComputing #SoundSynthesis #LostFutures

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #MaryAnneHobbs

Sound Synthesis:
🎵 All Night

#SoundSynthesis

https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/all-night

I closed a weird childhood loop tonight. In the early 90's, my favorite arcade had a vertical shooter, unremarkable except for the soundtrack: two recorded pieces of rock music. At the time, this was a technical marvel.

The boss music featured a singer, whose voice pierced through the arcade noise as a spine-chilling androgynous wail.

Thanks @CheesestringXX at YouTube, for the "Best arcade shooters of the 80s and 90s" video: The game is "Meta Fox", by Seta.

The solo video doesn't convey the strangeness, the spectral voice shrieking in a packed hall of crunchy, bloopy arcade machines. Hypnotic and haunting nostalgia.

https://youtu.be/G5r_B_WmHs4?t=160

Zophar's Domain has sound rips, yay: https://www.zophar.net/music/arcade/meta-fox

#80s #90s #arcade #soundsynthesis #audiocompression