Showing posts with label cecilia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cecilia. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Assignments for this week

These are my two Cecilia Gaussian/Weibull distribution assignments. I used a cello sample and applied a Phaser and MultiModeFilter effect to each.

  Cellos Phaser by lobochristian

  Cellos MultiModeFilter by lobochristian

I also read a bit about indeterminacy. Indeterminacy in music can be defined in two ways: composition indeterminacy and performance indeterminacy. In composition, the musical piece is determined by chance, I'm not really sure if this also includes random notes, tempo, etc. or if the composer chooses a scale, pitch, tempo and improvises. The second, performance indeterminacy, is when the performer decides how to deliver the work. Wikipedia uses as an example two lectures given by John Cage in which he would read short stories (Pat referred to these in class) in exactly one minute. Therefore, depending on the length of the story, Cage would read the stories extremely fast, at a normal speed, or really slow. I found a video of one of these lectures in which Cage is accompanied by David Tudor who performs random sounds simultaneously. I found the video to be fairly interesting. I'm not really sure what to think of Tudor's random sounds played in the back. It seems that Cage and Tudor intended for the readings and the sounds not to be related when this was recorded.


 

I was also assigned to write about Katsunori Ujiie. I can't say I found much information about him except the fact that he's a sound engineer, composer, arranger, and keyboardists who has helped to develop many presets and styles for different Yamaha products. He has a couple of videos online of him describing different Yamaha synthesizers and explaining some of the effects (turn on CC for English subtitles)


Monday, February 14, 2011

Cecilia's Convolve Module and Vocoder Clips

These are my clips for the convolve assignment. For the first one I used a "trig room" impulse and the second one a "cathedral" impulse. Here's a website I found with cool impulses in case you are having trouble finding them online.

  TrigRoomConvolution by lobochristian

  CathedralConvolution by lobochristian

Also, here's my Vocoder clips. For the first one I used a drum loop and a synth sound. The second one is a bell and water splash sounds.

  Vocoder1 by lobochristian


  Vocoder2 by lobochristian

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Cecilia Tracks

I'm not really sure what's going on with SoundCloud. I have uploaded my tracks but they are all stuck in "Preparing for transcoding". Anyways, here they are in case the problem is fixed. I'll check tomorrow morning...

  4Delays by lobochristian

  Harmonizer by lobochristian

  Phaser by lobochristian

  ResModes by lobochristian

  StochGrains by lobochristian

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Cecilia on Linux

Has anyone gotten Cecilia to run correctly on any distribution of linux? I have tried on Ubuntu 10.4 and I am unable to load any sound files. If anyone else has tried this on other distro's or gotten it to work on Ubuntu, that information would be helpful.

The goal of getting Cecilia to work on Ubuntu is that Windows 7 users can run Cecilia on a virtual Ubuntu install running in VirtualBox.