earshot - Live improvisation with digital audio
June 27, 2003 12:34 PM Subscribe
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Live improvisation with digital audio. Play, loop and compose with multiple sound file formats, including: wav, aif, aiff, aifc, mov, au, mid, mp3, swa, mpg, mpeg, snd... Found while Googlifying for links to the currently tanked Johnny Spencer's 'vanity site' directed towards fans of Black popular music c1940's to 1970's. I have not a clue as to the what or why of it but thought the teeming geeky horde might. Provided for your consumer testing.
Live improvisation with digital audio. Play, loop and compose with multiple sound file formats, including: wav, aif, aiff, aifc, mov, au, mid, mp3, swa, mpg, mpeg, snd... Found while Googlifying for links to the currently tanked Johnny Spencer's 'vanity site' directed towards fans of Black popular music c1940's to 1970's. I have not a clue as to the what or why of it but thought the teeming geeky horde might. Provided for your consumer testing.
Well, I think you are close--by the way, the links page was interesting--they had Plunderphonics, among other things. Linkwise, my post to crash cycle is getting shorter, it seems.
posted by y2karl at 4:22 PM on June 27, 2003 [1 favorite]
posted by y2karl at 4:22 PM on June 27, 2003 [1 favorite]
But here's the table of contents, should it depart again
elements
• Live improvisation with digital audio. Play, loop and compose with multiple sound file formats, including:
wav, aif, aiff, aifc, mov, au, mid, mp3, swa, mpg, mpeg, snd
• Unique AUDIO FIELD interface for non-linear composition. Place sounds in the audio field and drag them around to control their volume and pitch. A selected sound file, represented as an AUDIO STICK, can be controlled in the composition with a variety of keyboard based commands.
• NOIZEPROBE function for locating and downloading sound files from the web. These can be added into the composition together with sound files on the user's machine.
• Create AUDIO FIELD GENERATOR (AFG) files using a text editor and simple AFG code for controlling the movement and behaviour of sticks in the audio field. This AFG file will then 'play'.
posted by y2karl at 9:20 PM on June 27, 2003
elements
• Live improvisation with digital audio. Play, loop and compose with multiple sound file formats, including:
wav, aif, aiff, aifc, mov, au, mid, mp3, swa, mpg, mpeg, snd
• Unique AUDIO FIELD interface for non-linear composition. Place sounds in the audio field and drag them around to control their volume and pitch. A selected sound file, represented as an AUDIO STICK, can be controlled in the composition with a variety of keyboard based commands.
• NOIZEPROBE function for locating and downloading sound files from the web. These can be added into the composition together with sound files on the user's machine.
• Create AUDIO FIELD GENERATOR (AFG) files using a text editor and simple AFG code for controlling the movement and behaviour of sticks in the audio field. This AFG file will then 'play'
posted by y2karl at 9:20 PM on June 27, 2003
Hey y2k, kindof cozy in this thread, eh?
I tried to download and run it, but it isn't playing well under OS X... my machine tried to launch it under Classic (despite the fact that it's a Java application, apparently). I checked the docs for help, and they added insult (er injury) to injury by pointing out it wouldn't work with Quicktime 6. Which is what I have, of course, at least on my OS X boot.
I'll have to try it when I next boot into 9.
posted by weston at 11:53 PM on June 27, 2003
I tried to download and run it, but it isn't playing well under OS X... my machine tried to launch it under Classic (despite the fact that it's a Java application, apparently). I checked the docs for help, and they added insult (er injury) to injury by pointing out it wouldn't work with Quicktime 6. Which is what I have, of course, at least on my OS X boot.
I'll have to try it when I next boot into 9.
posted by weston at 11:53 PM on June 27, 2003
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Unless the site comes back up, I don't think the rest of us will either. The Google Cache isn't much help, unless you have a browser that ignores images (I could bring it up in lynx...).
From the sound of it, it's an audio/algorithmic composition tool somewhere between M and MAX.
(Wow, didn't know Cycling74 had saved MAX from sinking into the earth with Opcode....)
While were mentioning the like, SuperCollider deserves some mention.
posted by weston at 2:43 PM on June 27, 2003 [1 favorite]