Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A more traditional interlude from my new collection “Cybernetics & Feedback”, feedback-based improvisations on analog eurorack modular synths.
"Inspired by the cybernetic and feedback works of Roland Kayn, Éliane Radigue, Bebe Barron, and Jaap Vink, and embracing an anything-goes noise music aesthetic, this collection of works from early 2022 explores analog feedback loops and self-regulating patches in Eurorack modular.
"In these pieces, audio signals are routed back into themselves, and used to control processes and trigger events. While these are performed improvisations, "performance" in this case does not mean strict control, since these systems influence themselves as much as the performer does."
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A more traditional interlude from my new collection “Cybernetics & Feedback”, feedback-based improvisations on analog eurorack modular synths.
"Inspired by the cybernetic and feedback works of Roland Kayn, Éliane Radigue, Bebe Barron, and Jaap Vink, and embracing an anything-goes noise music aesthetic, this collection of works from early 2022 explores analog feedback loops and self-regulating patches in Eurorack modular.
"In these pieces, audio signals are routed back into themselves, and used to control processes and trigger events. While these are performed improvisations, "performance" in this case does not mean strict control, since these systems influence themselves as much as the performer does."
Get the album here:
Video tutorials on “Cybernetics and Feedback”: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6GtdiwZLSrDL3BhBjZngMKa
#feedback #cyberneticmusic #eurorack #analogsynth #cybernetics #improvisation
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![Nonlinear Data-Driven Instruments with Simple Artificial Neural Networks (MaxMSP) | Simon Hutchinson
Building a simple artificial neural network in Max/MSP for nonlinear, chaotic control of data-driven instruments.
I’ve talked before about data-driven instruments (https://youtu.be/NHufvylg0Vw?si=w4YJNH1cNHZP5CaB), and I’ve talked before about artificial neurons and artificial neural networks (https://youtu.be/SblYnu8OzEI), so here I combine the ideas to use a simple neural network to give some chaotic character to incoming data from a mouse and joystick before converting into into MIDI music. The ANN (Artificial Neural Network) reinterprets the data in way that isnt random, but also isnt linear, perhaps giving some interesting organic sophistication to our data-driven instrument.
In this video, I work entirely with musical control in MIDI, but these ideas could also apply to OSC or directly to any musical characteristics (like cutoff frequency of a filter, granular density, etc.).
More Max/MSP Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6GB20i9BXQfRLFMUujYOoin
More Artificial Neurons and Neural Networks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6GojicLv-6sTL-l63pVSPQP
0:00 Intro
1:43 [mousestate] for Data Input
2:58 Mapping a linear data-driven instrument
7:19 Making our Artificial Neuron
15:27 Simple ANN
20:06 Adding Feedback
22:23 Closing Thoughts, Next Steps
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