SuperCollider is an open source tool for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition. It is used for composition, generative music, installations, live coding, instrument building and very many other things. It is one of the most popular and widely used programming environments for audio work and is available for free for all platforms.
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Meeting ID: 974 3258 0111
Link: https://zoom.us/j/97432580111
Presentations 20 May
Sam Pluta is a composer, electronics performer, and sound artist. Though his work has a wide breadth, his central focus is on using the computer as a performance instrument capable of sharing the stage with groups ranging from new music ensembles to world-class improvisers. By creating musical systems of shared agency, Pluta's vibrant sonic universe focuses on the visceral interaction of instrumental performers with reactive computerised sound worlds. He is a composer/performer co-director of Wet Ink Ensemble and has performed with Peter Evans Ensemble, Rocket Science, and PANG!, amongst other world-class new music and improv-based groups. Sam is the co-author of the MMMAudio creative coding environment.
Ted Moore (he / him) is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist whose work fuses sonic, visual, physical, and acoustic elements, often incorporating technology to create immersive, multidimensional experiences. Ted's music has been presented by leading cultural institutions such as MassMoCA, South by Southwest, Lucerne Forward Festival, The Walker Art Center, and National Sawdust and presented by ensembles such as Talea Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, the [Switch~ Ensemble], and the JACK Quartet. Ted has held artist residencies with the Phonos Foundation in Barcelona, the Arts, Sciences, & Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago, and STEIM in Amsterdam.
We will be sharing MMMAudio, a new audio-focused creative coding environment that uses Python as its scripting language and Mojo for real-time audio processing. MMMAudio is designed to merge the practices of instrument design and DSP innovation. It is highly efficient, is capable of multi-core operation, enables single-sample feedback and oversampling at all levels of DSP, utilises modern CPU technologies like SIMD across the codebase, and is designed to integrate industry standard AI and data science tools like PyTorch and sci-kit learn into both “control”-side and “audio”-side operations. It is available at:www.github.com/spluta/MMMAudio
David Pirrò is a sound artist and researcher based in Graz, Austria. His work spans interactive compositions, sound installations, and audiovisual and electroacoustic pieces in which performative and spatial dimensions are central. Working from a radically inclusive perspective, he seeks compositional approaches in which the work is constructed through the mutual interaction of the agents involved in its performance. David is lecturer and senior scientist at the IEM (Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics) in Graz. He was Principal Investigator of *Algorithms That Matter* and currently of *Speculative Sound Synthesis* (FWF PEEK AR 713-G).
In this talk I will share *henri*, a domain-specific language for sound synthesis as dynamic-systems simulation that I have been developing as part of my artistic and research practice. I will introduce my artistic practice with these kinds of systems and then focus on a family of non-linear adaptive oscillators (Kuramoto networks and Hopf oscillators with adaptive frequencies) which have been the working material of a longer arc of work. Switching from *henri* to SuperCollider, I will share a small set of UGens that simulate networks of these oscillators at audio rate, alongside code and example patches.
SuperCollider is useful for many things: algorithmic composition, generative music, live coding performances, in conjunction with microcontrollers and sensors, for installation work, multi-channel work, dsp, research, ambisonics or simply audio hacking.
At these online meetups, SuperCollider users of all skill levels come together to share ideas, frustrations, help each other and showcase projects and workflows in an inspiring and friendly way.
The host:
The SuperCollider meetups are led by Mike McCormick. Mike McCormick is an artist and programmer working with sound, text and visual media. His work often combines algorithms and human performers. He works extensively with personal material, examining life through a voyeuristic lens to explore the ecstatic, the fragile and the banal. He grew up in Canada's subarctic region, lived nomadically for a decade, and has been based in Oslo since 2017.
