Tag: noise

Fourth track for Noisevember! I learned several things about working with FFTs today, but I didn't use them on this track...This track started with another field recording of crows I made, and then I manipulated it using so techniques I've made use of in the past, just to get warmed up, as it were. It's noisy but nice!

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Tracks 2 and 3 for Noisevember.

Track 2 is a short piece made using a recursive composition method that I've been playing with for a while. It's hard to control, so I keep trying. Made with Csound with a score I generated with some code I wrote in Python.

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conroy/recursive-composition-a

Track 3 is a manipulation of a field recording of crows I made a while back. The manipulation is a bunch of different simple shifts of the spectrum using FFTs. I'm really trying to understand how to use FFTs better!

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conroy/crows-shifted

A new track. I've been posting something every day on Soundcloud, but I really like this one I made today. I used a piece of a field recording I did that includes a trombone and an escalator. This track is entirely in the spirit of tape music: though done digitally, it could, theoretically be done entirely with tape (with many, many, many splices). I hope you enjoy it! https://soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conroy/trombonscalator

I've started making audio pieces for Noisevember. They are, so far, all in my playlist on soundcloud, here: https://soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conroy/sets/noisevember-2025

I'm having fun!

New track for Disquiet Junto 0604. On Sunday, I walked 5 km to a ballot drop-off location to vote for what I hope is improved representation on the city council, and I took a bunch of pictures of clouds on the way. I then rewrote from scratch my very old image-to-sound code that generates a Csound score with thousands of sine wave oscillators: the oscillators are gated depending on the content of the image, so the resulting sound has a spectrogram that looks like the original image. I used two different scales: one that creates comparatively short (time-wise) and low bandwidth sounds, and another that makes longer, wider bandwidth sounds. I used a bunch of images and made a bunch of sounds this way, and then mixed them “by hand” in Audacity.

A new video piece. Premiered at BEAMS Together Apart III show on November 26, 2022.

A bit of a noisy piece. I used the pixels in a self-portrait under circles to create the sound: each circle makes a short sound "loop". The image changes periodically via various filters, and this changes the sound.

I've got a new video piece in the upcoming BEAMS show Together Apart III on Twitch. It's happening Saturday, November 26, starting at 7 PM Pacific. Check it out if you like experimental sound and video!

Video I made for the Edmonton Noisefest 2022.

Particles move according to various, changing rules. Each particle makes its own sound based on its circumstances.

I've got a video that will be premiering in the Edmonton Noisefest 2022, on Sunday, August 28, 2022. Check out the show info here: https://blog.beams.ca/2022/08/4th-edmonton-noise-fest-2022.html

I resisted learning about Perlin noise...until yesterday. Then I wrote some Perlin noise code in Processing (processing.org) and made this video with it. I can see why I resisted learning about it: it looks like stuff I've made using other techniques, so I don't know that I personally need this method for anything. But now I have it in my brain, and that is cool.