Here's what I do when I have a bunch of aif files that need to become wav files. You will need SoX to do this.AIF2WAV#! /bin/sh cd $1 mkdir aif for file in *.aif do #echo $file name=basename${file}.aif #echo $name wave=${name}.wav #echo $wave…
From 2012-14, I coded three iOS applications for three sound art pieces by University at Buffalo composer Teri Rueb. The apps all use Pure data under the hood. From my perspective, each application presented unique technical challenges, as each was quite different. Each app uses the location of the listener,…
PrerequisitesA Raspberry Pi 2 (the one with the quad core).Computer with connection to local network router.Power cable, HDMI cable, keyboard, monitor, ethernet cable, router.Plug everything in, put Pi on the network via ethernet. Do not plug the Pi in until you have burned NOOBs and inserted the…
The Wheel within the Wheel is a sound art composition for custom software running on smartphones. The piece is based on spatial wheels, geographic regions defined by latitude/longitude points, and temporal wheels, 24 hour days and sunrise/sunset times as days progress through the year.…
Available at http://github.com/kitefishlabs/CorpusDB. This is the Python implementation, intended to mirror CBPSC as much as possible.Prerequisites Python - I use version 2.7.2 bundled with Mac OS 10.8.. Numpy, Ipython, Matplotlib - use the Superpack. sc-0.3.1 - SuperCollider lib, not strictly…
Structure, conventions, etc.This tutorial will cover a few important but somewhat more obscure aspects of CBPSC: suggested layout for project folders, the structure of the database in CorpusDB, corpora vs. sub-corpora, and some other conventions used throughout the project...Creating folders to organize a projectThis is an example of…
Creating a CorpusAt its core, CBPSC is a collection of classes for SuperCollider. The main class that sets up and maintains a database of sound samples and associated metadata is called CorpusDB. To set up a new Corpus, simply call CorpusDB.new and assign the result to a variable. The…
Added some small bug fixes. Major new features/classes:MetaCorpusDB: a class for storing a corpus consisting of soundfiles, DERIVATIVE SOUND FILES, and all associated metadataCorpusSoundFileTree: a "helper" class for structuring the above.Also, there are some new GUI classes with "Meta" versions. These will be merged with the non-Meta…
ImageDB is corpus-based image retrieval for OpenFrameworks)/OpenCV. It was developed on OS X, but should be usable, with slight modifications, on Linux and/or Windows.https://github.com/kitefishlabs/ImageDBAt this point, I do not have time to do much with this software. I will attempt to make some…
On March 9, I shared the stage with three other excellent artists at the premiere of our Regional Artist Access Residency pieces at Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo, NY!Overgrowth is my first piece to incorporate video with sound. Here is a trailer video for the installation:Overgrowth (excerpts) on Vimeo.…
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