Blue Echoes, Reflected I lied – here’s one last (and I swear, it’s REALLY the last) piece from this summer. Blue Echoes, Reflected for Mandolin and Computer. The score and MaxMSP files are here (requires SPAT5 from IRCAM), with various stereo (45°, 67.5°, and 90° placements), quadrophonic, and octophonic versions in the zip file. A binaural recording can… Read More
Caprices for Solo Mandolin It’s been a long time coming, but it’s time to release the hounds… er, Caprices for Solo Mandolin. Begun during the pandemic lockdown, the seven caprices are technical challenges that I wrote for myself. While difficult (extremely difficult in some cases), they are all playable with practice. Below are the notes on the Caprices as… Read More
Linnstrument EDO Mode This is a really late post. I actually completed the code is September, but have been slightly overwhelmed with work, teaching, performing, and haven’t posted it yet. So here it goes… After digging deep into how MaxMSP handles NRPN’s, I’ve created a set of patches that use NRPN messages, and collections of tunnings from Sevish’s… Read More
Scanline Synth Recently I’ve been playing around with different ideas for instruments in MaxMSP. I rewrote my GrainSieve patch as a Max4Live instrument for a performance, sketched out a bunch of stuff in my notebook that will probably never see the light of day, and created what I’m calling the Scanline Synth. Simply put: it converts images… Read More
Linnstrument LED Controls Based on a forum post, I created a quick and dirty (and very inelegantly coded) Max patch to allow control of the individual LED cells on a Linnstrument – both versions should work on either the Linnstrument 128 or 200. Both standalone versions will work with other DAWS and softsynths running (tested with Reaper running… Read More
Three Preludes for Un-Specified Instrument and Computer Yeah, I’m a slacker who hasn’t composed or gone to many festivals this last year. I know. I also have a really good excuse – I’ve been teaching at both Mott Community College and Oakland University. That tends to take up a lot of time, as did the CD project. But despite having all of my free… Read More