Actually, I've decided to go back to Analog.
Software synthesis (via Csound, Super Collider, Pure Data and others ...) works extremely well, but I just cannot get into software synthesis as a compositional means. I need to "touch" the sound generators, apparently.
My interest in analog though is not at the exclusion of the use of digital circuits or data convertors. For sure, my "tape machine" will be an open source audio recording app, running on Linux. There likely will be a role for digital signal processing, but I'm a lot more interested in analog signal processing. Really, I sense there are yet-undiscovered, and also long-forgottens forms of analog computation.
The organizing principle of the Model III EMS should be more like analog computing for sound. So, a system with a systematic mathematical underpinning but also unencumbered connectivity for exploration. The system provides access to transcendental functions such as: exponential, logarithm, circular and hyperbolic functions. A modular machine patchable for system functions, but not at all organized into pre-defined VCO, VCF, VCA, etc. modules.
The idea is to bring to sound composition a toolkit with the Reals in a musically useful way. The synthesizer plays one note for an orchestra, to enable orchestrated musical compositions that are recorded layer by layer, in an East Coast style of musical synthesis. Not so interested in improvisation or live performance; a completed piece is a recorded performance.
Software synthesis (via Csound, Super Collider, Pure Data and others ...) works extremely well, but I just cannot get into software synthesis as a compositional means. I need to "touch" the sound generators, apparently.
My interest in analog though is not at the exclusion of the use of digital circuits or data convertors. For sure, my "tape machine" will be an open source audio recording app, running on Linux. There likely will be a role for digital signal processing, but I'm a lot more interested in analog signal processing. Really, I sense there are yet-undiscovered, and also long-forgottens forms of analog computation.
The organizing principle of the Model III EMS should be more like analog computing for sound. So, a system with a systematic mathematical underpinning but also unencumbered connectivity for exploration. The system provides access to transcendental functions such as: exponential, logarithm, circular and hyperbolic functions. A modular machine patchable for system functions, but not at all organized into pre-defined VCO, VCF, VCA, etc. modules.
The idea is to bring to sound composition a toolkit with the Reals in a musically useful way. The synthesizer plays one note for an orchestra, to enable orchestrated musical compositions that are recorded layer by layer, in an East Coast style of musical synthesis. Not so interested in improvisation or live performance; a completed piece is a recorded performance.
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