Hnns Hlgr Rtz 🔬 @sciss@octodon.social

Get ready for the adjoining #ALMAT - Algorithms that Matter Symposium 2020 / #xCoAx 2020, with calls for contributions (deadline: 31 Jan 2020):

- Almat 2020: https://almat.iem.at/symposium.html
- xCoAx 2020: http://www.xcoax.org/

About this account

I'm a sound and digital artist, interested in installation and intermedia, improvisation and electronic/electroacoustic music. I develop a bunch of open source software.

I keep only one account, so the toots are a mix of sound/art focused things, random thoughts, and few rants (CW'd, and you don't need to share my opinion). I'm friendly/respectful 🍍 + aim to keep an open mind.

Account is locked (allow time to review), because I don't want bots and nazis to follow me. Thx 🌈

It's #Caturday and Katz can have a little bath tub

… it also means you can re-use the same stream multiple times, say on multiple objects in a timeline, or multiple restarts of a proc, and it will keep going where it was left. Or use it concurrently between processes. I think this expressivity was prior only available in SuperCollider patterns.

Working on adding a `Stream` object to Mellite.

Unlike `Pattern` which is an immutable program yielding a stream in memory, now you can create streams that maintain their state in the workspace. E.g., you can have counters or random walks or more complex programs that always resume where you left them. Think of a `drunk` object in Pd/Max, only that if you open your patcher again, it resumes from its last position. I think it will be a very interesting composition element for installations.

San Diego
was a mistake

The #scraped Fediverse data set seems to have been removed by the hosting site Harvard #Dataverse. I received an e-mail from one of the authors saying they are reviewing "the code for the anonymization of the posts", and that they are sorry for having released the data…

/cc @tastytea @gargron @er1n

#np Psyche - The Saint Became A Lush (1986)

'd night peeps 🌃

https://invidio.us/watch?v=fEmKL8n7J5g

I'm adding a Histogram UGen to FScape; such a simple mechanism, just throw stuff into buckets and count… I will need this to look at the distribution of spectral features of a microphone signal.

Sometimes I wish I had more input on what building blocks other people would need, but I guess that's ok.

The plot shows a 17-bin histogram fed with a sine oscillator, and the histogram being flushed every ten steps.

In terms of their change, they resemble the algorithmic; changes happen both discrete (separated) and under discretion (tacit). E.g. "the hotel room, now dorm room, now outside field exposed to rain." It is not clear whether this is an essential property of the dream, or it belongs to the mode of their recall, which is challenged with verbalisation, but there are cases that indicate the essential: "I notice the fundamental error – the room; I must have confused it, it unnoticably changed."

Lastest Raspbian Buster comes with JDK 11, QJackCtl, SuperCollider 3.10.0 preinstalled; Mellite universal download was running out of the box 🎉

Seems much more powerful than the Pi 3, my bet is the 4 GB RAM are a significant point here with running the JDK app. So far all smooth ✔️

#Mellite introductory tutorial on "PaulStretch" done - https://www.sciss.de/mellite/tut_mellite_paulstretch.html - let me know what you think.

#Mellite 2.42.0 is published now. The main work was on the code editor, fixing bugs and making the keyboard shortcuts work correctly on macOS. Also desktop integration on macOS has been improved, so give the new version a spin especially if working on a Mac. The code editor font is now configurable, too.

https://www.sciss.de/mellite/

This Friday I will be joining the Think Tank / workshop "Hacking into sonic #algorithmic #aesthetics" of the Center for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of #Lisbon

If you are in #Lisboa and interested, download the abstract pdf for info on registration (it's free): http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/

another, one of my favourites; I shot that landscape for the video piece 'Moor' (2016)

another

Sifting through old photos

Today 7 pm in #Graz at Neue Galerie - exhibition opening of the artists awarded with the production prize of the State of Styria - including a marvellous installation of three pieces by @nomadology

https://www.museum-joanneum.at/neue-galerie-graz/ausstellungen/ausstellungen/events/event/7745/foerderungspreis-des-landes-steiermark-fuer-zeitgenoessische-bildende-kunst-2019

I added an excerpt of room microphone recording: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/388082/735705

#Mäanderungen at Agorè gallery Gorizia. Visible and audible during #Pixxelpoint festival until end of next week.

"The described machine has apparently never been built, but there is little doubt that it can be built any time soon <footnote: personal communication>"

ah.... o-kay

Experimenting with technique to make relief more visible. #Mäanderungen