While submitting my most recent album to Spotify and other vendors it came to my attention that despite starting the process years ago Beasts(Homunculus-Basilisk) had never posted. I have now corrected the issue and made it available. Of course it is still available for free streaming and download at Bandcamp.
Finally took the time to sort out and upload all the Supercollider code to GitHub. Includes code for A Young Persons Guide to Time Travel, Beasts, Domestic Ghosts, Haiku, IMTBYWNYH, TWTMYBMIWTHYPS as well as Disquiet Junto projects and lots of random scraps from the archive.
Note: An earlier version of this post on my old blog referenced to a video of a live performance which seems to have been taken down. Updated to point to a more relevant video of the same track One of the most fascinating things about releasing your work under a Creative Commons license is to see the life it can […]
For quite a while now I have been trying to get Supercollider working on my Windows 10 system to no avail. I believe the problem started after installing JACK for windows. After uninstalling and trying a number of things I am still no closer to solving the issue. Despite seeming to boot fine SCIDE will not execute any code that […]
I was recently interviewed about my music by Jason Richardson for Cyclic Defrost. I speak about my process, drones and Creative Commons licensing.
I have not posted much about Supercollider latley so I decided to take a couple minutes to break drown a recent tweet I posted. The first thing to do is to add some white space for readability. I also wrap the whole thing in parenthesis so it can still be executed as a single statement. In order to save space […]
Last Friday I tweeted out the following bit of Supercollider code. Fitting Supercollider code in a tweet has always been an interesting challenge. I thought I might take a few minutes to deconstruct what I am doing with this tweet. Even if you are new to Supercollider I encourage you to follow along step by step and try to understand […]
Anyone who has read my blog knows how much I love both Supercollider and Renoise but the two have always occupied two different areas of my workflow. I have decided it was finally time to start combining the strengths of the two. Supercollider is amazing for sound design and renoise is a very good sequencer. NOTE: Despite the Renoise focus […]
As soon as I saw the announcement of rePatcher I was interested. It seemed like a very affordable way to add some physical control over your code. I am personally not a big fan of PD or Max so I decided to interface it to Supercollider and Reaktor instead. I quickly realized that the windows implementation of the Serial class […]
Today I have released my new album entitled “I Meant To Break Your Will, Never Your Heart”. This album was originally finished in October of 2013 and was scheduled to be my first physical release. Due to various issues the album has sat dormant during that time. With the release for physical product still several months off I have decided […]
Background: While looking for Arduino projects to build I found the Algorithmic Noise Machine. I was instantly intrigued by the noises it generated using bitwise operations. Looking further I realized that Supercollider added support for bitwise operators in v3.5. Unfortunately the only documentation was a single example (quoted below). I decided to explore the concept a to understand how bitwise […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0083: R#d#ct#dThis week’s project is an open-ended exploration of surveillance and graphic notation. The page at the following URL is the score that you will perform: http://goo.gl/eYX80X You can use any instrumentation you choose, just no source audio for which you cannot yourself claim ownership or fair use. Background: The image is page 8 of recently declassified […]
Due to the demands of everyday life and a studio that suffered from periodic flooding, I have been an audio nomad for several years. My work has been created on a variety of different machine and synced by Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive. My material had to be portable between machines as I never knew where I would be working […]
I am proud to announce my newest release as part of Subterranean Tide’s Haiku Project. “Each artist has contributed a three track release in increments of five minutes, seven minutes, and five minutes accompanied by a Haiku poem. Each song represents the line of the poem including title and reflection.” For my release I chose the following Haiku: Autumn moonlight-a […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound Current Assignment:Disquiet Junto Project 0062: Life of Sine This week’s project involves making music from the basic building block of sound: the sine wave. You will compose and record a piece of music using just three different sine waves, and nothing else — well, nothing else in terms of source material, but the waves can, after the […]
Today my new mini-EP entitled “BEASTS” was released by Dystimbria. “Dystimbria is a free-netlabel inviting composers to explore various approaches in-between ambient and noise music, discarding the safe, pastoral qualities of ambient and the macho posturing of noise for a more open-ended and abstract electronic terrain. The tracks released here will each utilize sound samples from previous Dystimbria releases, lending […]
I was asked on Soundcloud to explain the following tweet: First step is to start unpacking the tweet to make it more readable: h and l were used as generic variables functions to cut down on the amount of repeated code. If we remove them we end up with: In order to make things a little more readable I pull […]
I wrote the following code in preparation for a piece for Disquiet Junto 0051: 2012 In 60 Seconds. The instructions for the piece:This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2012. You will then select one five-second segment […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week:This week’s project explores invokes Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase.Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and thedot by a brief one. Use that […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound I have long admired the concept of the Disquiet Junto but have not ever gotten involved until today. This was the assignment for this week:This is a shared-sample project. We’re going to celebrate the dual forces of the phenomenon known as the netlabel and of the Creative Commons license that allows for derivative works. We’ll do this […]
In learning Supercollider, PureData, ChucK and Csound I found that there was one lesson missing from all the tutorials I read. That was a lesson on of how simple math operations worked to produce effects on various signals. This is basic information that is needed to be successful in any of these languages. My code samples will be in Supercollider as […]
Today I released my first 2 Quarks for Supercollider: I have released my first two Supercollider Quarks today: QuickLauncher: A customizable GUI for toggling commonly used Supercollider windows. MiniIDE: A customizable tabbed GUI containing many commonly needed views. Both are available in the Quarks repository. MiniIDE has QuickLauncher as a dependency. Use MiniIDE().front to get started. Comments and feedback are […]
They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still. by Schemawound I have blogged one time previously about the track “Please Hold”. The track was first written as a 7 second track for the Waxen Wings compilation “Se7en Seconds In Hea7en”. 7 second version is below: Se7en Seconds in Hea7en by Schemawound At the […]
They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still. by Schemawound In this post I break down the creation of my track “Hello World, I Am Lonely Too” from my album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still.”. The track was made entirely in Supercollider, although the final […]
My new album under the Schemawound name has been released today. It is entitled “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still”. The album is an exploration of small events magnified. It was released by Waxen Wings Netlabel. The entire album was written in Supercollider with some minor post production and mastering after the […]
This is a track I made for the Se7en Seconds In Hea7en compilation presented by Waxen Wings: A Collection of 75 works all 7 seconds in length. This compilation is meant to be downloaded in full and played on random. Full HD version of the accompanying video can be seen here.