RNBO 1.3: full monome support stretta 2024-05-20 | Had to rewrite from scratch three times, but it works now. This is a full test of various technologies I need to work in RNBO including monome support with multiple devices, support for the monome arc, (including various knob behaviors), 2D data matrix abstractions and a lot of other stuff I am forgetting. Getting all this to work is a prerequisite to porting over my relevant monome work from Max. Next up will be to use this to create a scrolling sequencer.If you would like more information about the monome, please visit youtu.be/tk0Srjz2jVU
Cat, sleepy. stretta 2024-05-14 | Absolutely nothing happens in this video. It's just a cat being sleepy.
56-28.04.2024 stretta 2024-04-28 | EACE8AA4C746690A04B6DC7934C47A8AAF7C995019D4D7539BEEAEEAB915945963A8E376739F533AE772401CB368EECFA17DF530DA512536450D8A1B7F4EDD1Ffour tap delay (+480 +240 -240 -480 ticks) so two taps are ahead of the play head.
How does a monome work? stretta 2024-03-17 | monome.org sells monome devices. I am not affiliated with monome. I did not make the hardware. I use monome controllers with software I create to test ideas I have for real time music software interaction. My public work can be found at http://github.com/stretta I made this video for my viewers to answer the common question: what is that thing and how does it work? I will make another video to answer the question: why I use the monome.
Granular Piano Autoharp instrument stretta 2024-03-07 | This video follows a project idea from a blank Max patcher window to finished project. I develop and record sound materials, create a granular playback engine and map those controls onto a physical interface. Thanks for watching!
instro øchd expander - improvs and patching & talking stretta 2024-03-06 | Hey, I purchased an øchd expander and I dropped it into my case. Then I turned on the camera and recorded this video so you can get my impressions in real time. This is not a review, it is more of a shoulder-eye (unfiltered, unscripted) view of what I do when I receive a new module and I'm learning how to use it. If you like videos like this, let me know and I'll produce more. If you don't like, I apologize for wasting your time. There is no paid-promotion or manufacturer-provided modules in this video, it is just me enjoying time with my modular. :)modular grid of rackmodulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1246978
instro cruïnn - improv stretta 2024-03-04 | The cruïnn is designed to provide fat unison de tuned saws. I'm exploring the area between audio and control rate output. A make noise 0 ctrl is providing the slow sequence of changes and we get to hear the progression at LFO rates (rhythm) and timbre and back again. Using a mutable instruments rings which is highly identifiable, but at LFO rates from the osc, the input behaves like a strike and at audio rate like a filter, which allows us to appreciate the deturning of the oscillator. This video I recorded during winter break, along with some others. Recorded 30-01-2024
25 11 2023 stretta 2023-11-26 | two voices. cwejman s1mk2, intellijel cascadia, sound toys little plate reverb. i don't know what artifact ID this is maybe 80 or 81, can't remember, recorded this late. software is rs5.1 or 5.2. using mira to do page switching and launch other performance parameters. can concentrate on evolving the sound on the synths, but doing this while evolving the composition is difficult. since added chordscale set/display on luminext plan is to add a ratchet page and add the ability to add step resolution in powers of 2. curious about using the xpander in next iteration.
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Balinese cat voice 2, now with more howling stretta 2023-11-13 | Some more impressionistic word decorations from Mia. Don't worry, she's ok. She's just dramatic. She's 6lbs and produces the loudest sounds a cat can make, IMO. The dB/lbs ratio is way off the chart.
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Winterr Fall 2023 Ambient Night stretta 2023-10-23 | Here is some new music for you to enjoy performed live by my student Winter Riley (Winterr) at Ambient Night October 20 2023Software: VCV rack Hardware controller: Faderfox PC12
Screen Recording 2023 10 16 at 9 50 43 PM stretta 2023-10-17 | 99EDADBE5AC62D345B03A8D50EF48466147ABE9F810364257914F7A0052538E1940E6FF70D2E1BA14F3C652917B5738F
10072023 on monome zero stretta 2023-07-13 | Hardware used: monome zero, roli lumi, logidy UMI3, yamaha sustain pedalSoftware used: Max running on a macbook pro 14" M1, NI Kontakt The Grandeur piano, no processingCamera: Canon eos R with RF100mm macro f/2.8This is the 12th and final of a series of takes recorded from July 12 to July 13. The software development for this piece began on July 10th. I'm playing the sustain pedal with my knee, out of the frame. The monome zero is a creation of monome.org. they build in small batches.There are no cats in this video.
Berklee ARP Synthesizer Ensemble stretta 2021-09-28 | Performance for the Alan R Perlman Foundation0:00 Tinha de Ser Com Você composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim4:40 Tubular Bells composed by Mike OldfieldDavid Xu - EDI and Arp synthsJiayi Lin - Arp synthsGabriela Benavides - Arp synthsKira Davidson - piano (Nord stage)Chella Nahas - vocalsKseniia Vasileva - bass
Balinese cat voice stretta 2021-08-27 | This is Mia: six pounds of intense feline opinions, expressed vocally. Anyway, here's a cat video.
AI9A3322 stretta 2021-03-14 | I was asked what I thought about the Roli Lumi today. I'm not really sure how to answer. Before starting, it helps to see what kinds of applications I bought the Lumi for.I've programmed the Lumi to to act as physical interface to maintain a list of pitches. This list is sent to a polyphonic Risset trigger mechanism.
Texture Explorer stretta 2021-02-16 | Texture Explorer is a utility for generating audio textures, environments and aleatoric expressions. It is free. It can be used as a performance tool, or it can be used to generate royalty free music and backgrounds for your video or podcast.github.com/stretta/TextureExplorer
12 29 2020 double morphagene piano stretta 2020-12-30 | 12 29 2020 - I have been trying to capture a decent performance of this for a few days. The idea is to use the morphagenes a simple looper, except playing the genes reversed. So, when recording, I'm playing against the reversed loops. On youtube, the entire video is reversed so the looper output is playing forward again. This enables me to reverse the macrostructure of the morphagene performance such that it starts busy and gradually gets simpler and quieter as the video progresses. I wanted the beginning to sound overtly electronic and then gradually transform into the piano. gearNeumann KM184 (pair)Mackie 1202 for mic presKorg Minilogue as a battery-powered MIDI controller, sending pitch CV to morphagenesIntellijel 104 palette case configured as a Make Noise microsound systemmodulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1338580
Dec 5 2020 improv live stream stretta 2020-12-06 | Intellijel 4U 104hp Palette Case configured as a modified take on a Make Noise Tape & Microsound Music Machine. My system has 2x morphagenes and a quadrax instead of a maths. The 1U row provides MIDI, noise tools, DSP. The morphagnes start with blank reels and are fed with tones played on the Prophet 6 through the H9. The Korg Monologue is used as a MIDI controller, providing transposition to the Morphagenes via the 1U midi module.The patch at the beginning of the video is nearly a blank slate. Only the two audio paths are configured: Morphagene A to QPAS to Mimeophon and Morphagene B to 1U DSP. These are mixed in stereo using a mixup. The pitch output of the MIDI interface is also already patched in because the CV on the Morphagenes needs to be carefully pre-'dialed in' to provide 1v/oct tracking.
Oberheim Xpander stretta 2020-11-16 | Sunday afternoon with an Oberheim Xpander I'm in temporary custody of. I'm going to attempt to program a patch and use it in multi mode. I have a live voice mic and take questions.
How to get Max to remember parameter values stretta 2020-11-05 | How do you get the snapshots system to remember the position of all your buttons and sliders.
Solutions to common synchronization issues in Max stretta 2020-10-22 | I address two questions I get a lot from my students regarding synchronization of events.
MIDI control of Morphagene stretta 2020-10-18 | No computer, two roughly-parallel setups: prophet to morphagene and buchla to morphagene.0:00 prophet sound design and feed into morphagene #11:41 buchla sound design and feed into morphagene #24:45 two parts together10:45 first transpose via MIDI
QuBit Surface Demo stretta 2020-08-19 | No talking demo. Please use this guide to navigate video0:00 Overview0:19 Kick modulation1:05 Snare modulation1:30 Bell modulation2:13 String model through VCA with reverb2:22 Sequenced modulation with sub2:24 Sequenced model modulation3:12 Models overview without modulation3:49 Pluck model without modulation4:24 Bell model without modulation5:29 E.Piano 1 model without modulation6:19 E.Piano 2 model without modulation6:56 Kick model without modulation7:36 Snare model without modulation8:12 Prepared Piano model without modulation
Performance Modular Tour stretta 2020-05-27 | Hi, please read description before commenting / asking questions. A student asked me recently what modules I have in my performance modular and why. In this video, I give a quick tour of my travel case. I paid for all of these modules, they aren't freebies and I wasn't compensated for featuring them. Errors8:05 18:05 Multiple times I refer to the Buchla 289. Every time I say that, I mean Buchla 258. 13:45 I point at the VCO-2RM and refer to it as a VCO-6Here is a link to my modular grid layout.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1015158
05 25 2020 edit stretta 2020-05-27 | Hi, please read description before commenting / asking questions. This is a four minute section of a 30 minute capture, starting with no patch cables. I've been keeping musical snapshots of my work in progress since the Spring semester ended. Some of the recordings are more interesting than others. I hesitate releasing these studies, but also I just watched a video on restoring a Tonka Truck and enjoyed it immensely. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I make these snapshots because I need to remind myself of the results I'm getting as the software itself evolves. Often times I'll sanitize my software to the point where the surprise has been worked out of it. In retrospect, sometimes the bugs I fixed robbed it of some of its inherent musicality. Maybe the interesting parts are how I respond to some of the odd or unexpected results. This portion of the video is quite boring to look at, it's basically me building some subtle boomy drum voices that you don't end up noticing until 3:06 and after that it gets worse because I'm just sitting there with headphones, assessing the result. You get to listen along with me. Yay!This portion of the music fails to demonstrate any of the techniques I set out to achieve. The result you hear is a side effect of using the tools I developed to perform real time Risset rhythms. I find a lot of musicality in the processing that doesn't strictly produce the illusions I'm looking for. Is that failure? I'm using:A suite of Risset tools I developed as M4L devices that run in Ableton Live (four loopers that record linear time scale and output at Risset time scale and a device that produces four triggers at a Risset time scale that automatically subdivide when they cross the Risset loop point, This is sent to the modular via a crow module.)Macbook Pro 2018Monome 256 Monome 256Monome ArcMOTU M4Intellijel 104 Modular Case w/various modulesCwejman SM1mk2Korg Nano KontrolAbleton Live
Nested Risset Spiral (Risset glissando inside a Risset rhythm) stretta 2020-05-15 | I've been keeping daily snapshots of my work since the Spring semester ended. Here is today's: a demo of a Risset audio processor. It is real-time (though, buffer-delayed). I have a longer version where I demo the creation of the drum pattern, but I didn't want to subject you to that part. This device is part of an ongoing effort to produce a series of live pieces around Risset illusions.
mc Beap demo stretta 2018-10-14 | Demo of the polyphonic version of Beap for Max 8 currently under development.
