Trash_Audio

By Stretta

hardware: Livid Code
software: harmonic designer, drone designer and wavestep

download this software at http://cycling74.com

This is the companion video to Working With Hardware part three. In addition to a tutorial on how to build your own Max applications that use the Live Code, four free applications are included. These applications are demoed in this video.

http://cycling74.com/2012/01/04/working-with-hardware-livid-instruments’-code/

Drone Designer hosts audio effects plug ins, the sends of which are controlled from the Code. An Audio Damage Eos reverb was used on both the Drone Designer and wavestep examples. A tempo synced delay is included in wavestep.

4ms – PEG Quadratic Beats from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

Patch using two 4ms Pingable Envelope Generators. This was an experiment to see what rhythmic possibilities are possible using only two PEGs synced to the same LFO clock. This same clock also was controlling one MakeNoise Brains, and two pressure points. The output of the Pressures Points was CV controlling the PEG’s divided time divisions making some cool repeating glitchy effects.

http://www.4mspedals.com/peg.php

TipTop BD808, Snare, and Open/Closed High-hats-Patch 2 from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

Patching with the new TipTop BD808, Snare, and Open/Closed High-hats. Sequencing only with the 4ms Clock divider, SCM and one plan-b LFO.

Finally sold out & made some good old fashioned synth porn. – Jonathan Snipes

In 1980 Stanley Kubrick released his masterpiece of modern horror, The Shining. Over 30 years later we are still struggling to understand its hidden meanings. Rodney Ascher’s film Room 237 is an exploration of the truths concealed in The Shining.

Kubrick’s film was scored in large part with pre existing classical recordings, but the score for Room 237 has taken as its inspiration the elegant but quirky film music that accompanied low budget horror movies in the 1970s. Composers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson utilize a combination of vintage and contemporary analogue synthesizers, as well as acoustic instruments to create an atmosphere that is at once both haunting and funky.

Musicians:
Jonathan Snipes – Synthesizers, Pianos, Vocoder, Percussion
William Hutson – Synthesizers, Percussion
David Rothbaum – Guitars & Bass
Nick Murray – Drums
Maryclare Brzytwa – Flute
Bear McCreary – Clavinet
Cristina Bercovitz – Vocal Effects

jonat8han.com
room237movie.wordpress.com

A great and rare overview of the Cwejman’s take on random generation. Cwejman makes some of the best modules on the market: their designs are so well thought out and sound/build quality is so high. Jason Baker does an excellent job explaining its functions and quirks.

Most likely the only example of 303 music I can actually listen to.

4 x 303 and 1 x 606.

- Via Matrixsynth

Thank you Scott McGrath, our sponsors, the crew behind Wham Bam, and everyone that came to the BBQ. We’ve learned a lot from this experience and hopefully will be able to accommodate everyone we turned away next year. We hope to see both coasts for T_A events in 2012 but more information on that later…

The photo session in the video was run by Sarah Sitkin and her work can be found here: Sarah Sitkin’s Flickr! She’s responsible for the visual glory on To No Avail and a session with Sonoio. You can read an interview with her about her work on To No Avail here: Sarah Sitkin To No Avail Interview. Below are some selects from photoshoots from this past weekend.

Richard Devine

Nayib of Gorillabox

Scott & Julie Jaeger of Harvestman

Cyrus

For the past several months whenever Rob AA Lowe (Lichens) and I met, he has been showing me progress of this film he’s starring in. It first began with productions stills, vague plots and shooting schedules and finally, about a month ago, he showed me this trailer that has been haunting me since. The video went public today.

A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS (TRAILER) from Ben Russell on Vimeo.

From pagan re-enactors to Scandinavian communes, black metal concerts to Arctic hermits, and the forever Golden Hour to the Northern Lights, A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS is an inquiry into the possibilities of a spiritual existence within an increasingly secular world.

Starring musician Robert AA Lowe (LICHENS) and co-directed by Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (USA), A SPELL is a feature-length film that lies between fiction and non-fiction, a record of experience that proposes belief in transcendence as a viable outcome of living in the now.

Here are a couple events that we’ll be attending. See you around Anaheim/LA!

Richard and Surachai will be playing at Wham Bam Friday, January 20th in downtown LA. These parties have always been incredible in the past and confirms that LA’s electronic music scene is one of the best in the country. Facebook Event Page

The TRASH_AUDIO BBQ has reached its capacity and RSVP’s are over. If you have paid and have not received information, please e-mail us. The party would not be possible without the help of our sponsors, check them out.

GearTrack

GearTrack, the organizational tool, marketplace, and answer to the music industry’s age-old problem of instrument theft, is currently in development. Through the creation of its searchable database, GearTrack aims to address four main goals: instrument and music gear management, to become a communicative platform and place for exchange, provenance for all levels of musicianship, and prevention of theft through the power of community.

Matrixsynth

You know about Matrixsynth already, it’s probably the reason you heard of our site. I’ve wasted months off my life staring at this site but at the same time getting schooled with “everything synth”. A valuable resource for news/researching, synth pr0n and watching incredible and incredibly horrible videos.

Tip Top Audio

Gur of Tip Top Audio has been dubbed “the smartest man in the room” by his competitors and the quality of his new-school meets old-school designs is a testament to this statement. Redesigning a Prophet filter, TR-808 drum instruments or making technological advances with the Z-DSP computer module – Tip Top Audio is making new audio tools with a nod to the past.

Make Noise Music

Tony Rolando, formally of Moog, has a deep musical background which is very apparent in Make Noise’s designs. Emphasis is placed on performance orientated modules and these modules breathes new life into entire modular systems. With products like the Pressure Points and RENÈ the word ‘presets’ become a reality and performance becomes a possibility. Oh, Make Noise loves vactrols too.

Harvestman Digital Electronics

Scott Jaeger embraces the advantages of analog and digital worlds and combines them into hybrid destroyers of the audio spectrum. If bitcrusher, wavetable distortion, and circuit bending mean anything to you, you’ll understand the potential destructive force behind Harvestman’s designs but the strange thing is – his modules play very well with others as well.

Twisted Tools

Twisted Tools offer an incredible amount of products for such a young company. Their Reaktor patches create sounds you’ve probably heard but never dreamt would be in your control. The layouts and designs are inviting and not littered with hard to reach menus. Focusing on From beautiful performance oriented Reaktor patches to stunning sample packs, Twisted Tools knows what the seasoned musician wants.

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Video courtesy Nordvargr