NES-Spectrale-Beta-02-2019 has two updates from version Beta 01:
This software consists of Max patchers that process the FFT of a recorded sound. Available to download free from the software page.
The Composer’s Little Helper (CLH) is a Max patcher that makes use of the “Bach” and “Cage” libraries to manipulate and mix musical notation that has been saved in a “shelf” as separate segments. CLH implements musical operations such as transposition, inversion, retrograde, plus a number of other “treatments” that use the high-level “Cage” library for real-time computer- aided composition.
This version is the version that was show-cased at the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2018 in Perth. The Max code is available from the software page.
Just made available online: NES-Spectrale – Software for “Timbre Hacking” the FFT. Adapted from the patchers by Jean-François Charles. Requires Max 7.
Available via the link on this page:
https://davidhirstmusic.wordpress.com/software/#Spectrale
Inspired by the work of Zack Settel & Cort Lippe (1994), Jean-François Charles (2008), and the GRM Spectral Transform and Evolution suites of audio processors, I have adapted the patches of Jean-François Charles (2011) into a set of FFT processing tools using Cycling 74’s Max environment, with Jitter matrices storing and processing the FFT.
NOTE: Read the file “000-NES-Spectrale-Readme.pdf” first to understand what the patches do, and how to run and control them.
1. Turn on DAC
2. Open a sound file and play it
3. Select an effect using its radio button
4. Double click on the corresponding effect object to open its window and control its parameters
5. Adjust overall levels
6. Try another effect
7. Use one or more effects in your own patcher
From January 2016, my position as Honorary Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Music has been moved to the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the Faculty of VCA and MCM, the University of Melbourne. See:
http://vca-mcm.unimelb.edu.au/staff/davidhirst
“Imaginacão de Viseu” (Imaginations of Viseu) * (2016) – an electroacoustic music work selected by an international panel for inclusion in VISEU RURAL 2.0 // SONIC EXPLORATIONS OF A RURAL ARCHIVE: This international competition invited electroacoustic musicians/composers and sound artists from around the world to produce sound works based on the Viseu Rural 2.0 archive, one that is being collected and archived by Binaural/Nodar with recordings of rural contexts from the Municipality of Viseu (Viseu Dão Lafões, Portugal).
