BBC news claims to have a recording of the oldest computer music, from a Ferranti Mark I. Can that be true?
BBC news claims to have a recording of the oldest computer music, from a Ferranti Mark I. Can that be true?
AudioHyperspace guides you through the jungle of sound data and explores the development of sonic web art: every month it selects the most interesting audio websites and presents an annotated collection of links to audio and audio art on the web.
Why not? By feeding it instructions you have many additive and subtractive options. Not real time… but so what?
Links to downloadable synthesis programs.
GranuLab makes sound in real time by generating masses of sound “grains” (usually chopped from one of your soundfiles).
AudioMulch is software for real-time sound synthesis, music composition and performance-oriented audio processing.
Coagula is an image synth. This means that it is both a program for creating and manipulating images, and a program for generating sound from those images.
You can use Coagula to generate rich and complex synth sounds. There are special drawing tools to help you create the pictures. Some features are not so common in other image editors.
Lots of stuff that would be really useful is also missing. The program is still under development.
Links to articles on Mac audio can be found here.
Spongefork is a complete softsynth, sampler, live improvisation instrument, and soundfile processing application. SF’s oscillators and interface are controllable via an unique XY based modulation controller, your computer keyboard, by external pitch tracking, or by MIDI input.
thOnk is an extremely simple to use Freeware Macintosh application, that uses Granular Synthesis to produce very diverse sounds based upon a sound file provided by the user, where you have NO CONTROL WHATSOEVER over the process.