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Space architecture and radio odes on Late Junction tonight!

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029pyg

"Verity Sharp dives into another round of sonic exploration, with selections including a meditation on a proposed commercial spaceport on the Outer Hebrides from field recordist and percussion group Scolpaig. Elsewhere, there’s bubbling cello folklore tales of fishermen and deities from Theresa Wong and an ode to the radio format."

Tune in and join the adventure!

BBCBBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, Remote space architecture and radio odesVerity Sharp presents her latest picks for an ear-bending sonic adventure.
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And here's the results of the mp3 glitching script (reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202) played with the MuBu concatenative synthesis tools in Max/MSP

I'm analyzing the file based on transients, sorting the segments according to loudness (Y axis) and average frequency of the spectrum (X axis), then playing through those segments using those groupings

Here's a demo of the mp3 glitching script I wrote about here: reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202

I added a batch script so I can take in a bunch of folders of .wav files, use ffmpeg to convert them to mp3 (and try out different bitrates), glitch them, re-encode those as .wav (easier to work with), and then clean up all the intermediate mp3s.

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Our latest interviewee, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, is an #improviser of #intuitiveMusic, and #composer of #experimentalMusic.

You can ask Carl questions on the topic of both #music and #games for our crowdsourced #interview:

musicgames.wikidot.com/source:

The photo of #KarlheinzStockhausen's intuitive music group (and #moog #synth) is by Lene Duus ("educational usage", please, etc.), @carlintuitive is in the middle.