iGenDyn

iGendyn (App Store link) is a moderately interesting synthesis app that’s let’s you play with Xenakis’ general dynamic stochastic synthesis.

It’s essentially a powerful noisemaker. You can make some pretty rough-edged sounds with this; the iPhone gives you surprisingly sensitive control surface. The accelerometer-based controls are less sensitive and harder to make reproduceable gestures with; the (up to) triple-touch control is easier to learn and control.

It might be useful for a situation where you need its swoops and slides; the performance gestures make it something that might have a good bit of interest onstage; it feels a bit like you’re wrestling with the phone when you’re really going for it and attempting to control the sounds at the same time.

It’s free, and definitely worth a try for something different.

APC40 Hack 1: Monome Emulator for the APC40 on Vimeo

So it’s not necessary to wait for hard-to-get hardware: the APC40 can emulate a Monome, just fine.

Simple Sequencer

A nice eight-step build-it-yourself sequencer at Instructables: Simple Sequencer.

Torley

This is Torley. Torley has fun with stuff. Torley is also adroit and educational. You should be reading his blog.

Harmonia Prohibitorum

I like this blog – just started, but the writer’s funny, articulate, and passionate about electronic music. One of the first posts is on noise: a discussion of the analog recording process, with its inherent noise, versus the nearly-silent digital realm. A blog worth reading.
Harmonia Prohibitorum.

Wordpress 2.8, and unhacked again

Got caught again – I’ve updated to 2.8, and have the Wordpress blog in my RSS reader to be ready for the next release as soon as it appears.
You’d think people would have better things to do.

Wordpress 2.7

I’ve upgraded to version 2.7 – less painful than usual. I’m planning to try out the new features that will let me post faster – perhaps I’ll post more that way.

DS 2008 Review

I wasn’t able to catch the concert live, but my laptop recorded it for me with Audio Hijack Pro – quite good for this kind of thing, by the way.
Listening later, this was quite an interesting DS. The choice to go for more long-form pieces led to stuff that was considerably more complex; you just [...]

Different Skies 2008 begins

Just got the first mails from folks at this year’s Different Skies. There are a lot of new faces this year; should be a very interesting year. Allen Goodman will be broadcasting on StillStream this week; I’m looking forward to hearing what comes out of the group this year.
I decided not to go this year; [...]

Recovering from being hacked

So the site will look a little funny for a while, and links mey be broken. Teach ME not to log in every day and update WP the instant a new release is out.