redThermoKontroll

My latest controller. I'll premiere it this Friday (23 July 2010) at the bring-your-own-laptop event at staalplaat. It includes a light sensor, 2 touch sensors, some big switches and lots of knobs for control. It is also wireless and runs off either a 9V battery or a 9-14V wall adapter. The controller data is picked up by redWirelessMaster and is then read by the computer via a serial port.

Firmware, parts list and schematics attached below. A SuperCollider class for interpreting the data is also included.

Flickr photostream from the build process. I took out most of these beautiful old electronics and replaced it with my own circuit board. Only kept the front end interface with the nice knobs.

Updates:

• 101109: minor updates
• 130122: SuperCollider GUI class updated and new help files and MIDI control (via a nanoKontroll).

OpenObject Tutorials

7 short screencasts with code examples showing how to connect SuperCollider with MaxMSP/Pd/Processing (etc) using the OpenObject quark.
Download the example code here... www.subnet.at/content/supercollider-tutorials-0

To run all the examples you will need SuperCollider, Processing (with the oscP5 library), MaxMSPJitter and Pure Data.

Install OpenObject from within SuperCollider with Quarks.install("OpenObject");

These screencasts were made at the 10days of SuperCollider network music workshop at subnet, Salzburg, October 2009.

OpenObject quark by Julian Rohrhuber, tutorials by Fredrik Olofsson, voiceover and support by Max Kickinger.

Thanks to subnet.at

Updates:

• 150316: uploaded the code here below and made it compatible with sc3.6. thanks to edN for noticing.
• 180101: updated the Pd examples to use Pd vanilla instead of Pd extended

swiki

Just a listing of some of the SuperCollider code I've published on the swiki. Much is old but still fully functional and hopefully useful.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/743 - 3D extensions for the Pen class. Vector and matrix multiplication.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/760 - 1D cellular automata pattern.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/818 - Live coding practice sessions.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/854 - More live coding practice sessions.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/763 - Tempo clock synchronisation and beat matching.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/833 - Some drawings.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/901 - Examples ported from NodeBox.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/902 - Examples ported from Processing.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/726 - Quicklauncher folder GUI.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/810 - Hacked server windows.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/870 - A silly drum machine.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/869 - Port of particle chamber by Derek Holzer.

swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/906 - Examples ported from form+code.

klipp av Logo

Some SuperCollider code to generate old school klipp av logos.

Click the window in the SuperCollider code to generate new pictures.

//redFrik
(
  var width= 800, height= 600;
  var win, usr, p0, p1, l= 50, w= 10, h= 15, c= 0.9, o= 0.1;
  win= Window("nystan", Rect(128, 64, width, height), false);
  usr= UserView(win, Rect(0, 0, width, height));
  usr.mouseDownAction= {usr.refresh};
  usr.background= Color.new255(51, 47, 57);
  win.front;
  usr.drawFunc= {
    Pen.translate(width*0.5, height*0.5);
    5.rrand(20).do{
      var p, pp1, len;
      Pen.rotate(pi.linrand);
      p0= Point(0, 0);
      p1= Point(0, h.rand*10.linrand);
      pp1= p1;
      (20.linrand).do{|i|
        len= l+l.rand2;
        Pen.color= Color(c, c, c.rrand(1.0), (1-c).rrand(1.0));
        Pen.moveTo(p0);
        Pen.lineTo(p1);
        if(o.coin, {
          p= 200.rand;
          p0= p0+p;
          p1= p1+p;
        }, {
          p0= p0+Point(len+w.rand2, h.rand);
          p1= p1+Point(len+w.rand2, h.rand);
        });
        Pen.lineTo(p1);
        Pen.lineTo(p0);
        Pen.draw(0);
      };
      Pen.moveTo(p0);
      Pen.lineTo(p1);
      Pen.lineTo(pp1);
      Pen.lineTo(Point(0, 0));
      Pen.draw(5.rand);
    };
  };
  CmdPeriod.doOnce({if(win.isClosed.not, {win.close})});
)

Sunday Drawings

2006 I fiddled with some simple drawing routines in SuperCollider. (swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/833). Now I've added matching (?) sound synthesis and some slight modifications to the drawing code. There are 7 parameters that are used to both generate the picture and the sound. Normally the parameters are randomised but it is possible to copy&paste a good sounding/looking set of parameters into the code to get the same drawing back.

Below is the new code + embedded vimeos.

//redFrik
(
s.latency= 0.05;
s.waitForBoot{
  var width= 640, height= 480, w, u, drawFunc, clearFunc;
  var fadeAtk= 1400, fadeSus= 700, fadeRel= 350;
  var a, b, c, d, e, f, g, i= 0, theta= 0;
  var syn= SynthDef(\sunday, {|amp= 0, a= 1, b= 1, c= 1, d= 1, e= 1, f= 1, g= 1|
    var z0= Mix(BPF.ar(LFSaw.ar([a, b]), a+b, e, amp));
    var z1= SinOsc.ar(a, Ringz.ar(z0, c.abs, f, 2pi), amp);
    var z2= SinOsc.ar(b, Ringz.ar(z0, d.abs, g, 2pi), amp);
    Out.ar(0, Pan2.ar(z0, 0, 0.3)+Pan2.ar(z1, -0.3, 0.3)+Pan2.ar(z2, 0.3, 0.3));
  }).play(s);
  s.sync;
  w= Window("sunday drawings2", Rect(128, 64, width, height), false);
  drawFunc= {
    var x, y;
    if(i==0, {
      "//---------------------".postln;
      [
        \a, a, \b, b, \c, c, \d, d, \e, e, \f, f, \g, g
      ].pairsDo{|m, n| (""++m++"="+n++";").postln};
    });
    if(i<fadeAtk, {
      theta= theta+(d*e*f);
      x= sin(theta*a%a/b*c*2pi);
      y= sin(theta*b%b/a*d*2pi);
      Pen.strokeColor= Color.grey(1, 0.5);
      Pen.translate(width*0.5, height*0.5);
      Pen.scale(f, g);
      Pen.rotate(theta);
      switch(a%3,
        0, {Pen.strokeOval(Rect.aboutPoint(Point(x*100, y*100), a, b))},
        1, {Pen.strokeRect(Rect.aboutPoint(Point(x*100, y*100), a, b))},
        2, {Pen.line(Point(x*100, y*100), Point(a*c*100, b*d*100)); Pen.stroke}
      );
      syn.set(\amp, i/fadeAtk, \a, a, \b, b, \c, c, \d, d, \e, e, \f, f, \g, g);
    });
    if(i>(fadeAtk+fadeSus), {
      clearFunc.value;
      theta= 0;
      Pen.fillColor= Color.grey(0, 5/fadeRel);
      Pen.fillRect(Rect(0, 0, width, height));
      syn.set(\amp, i.linexp(fadeAtk+fadeSus, fadeAtk+fadeSus+fadeRel, 1, 0.0001));
    });
    if(i==(fadeAtk+fadeSus+fadeRel), {
      i= 0;
    }, {
      i= i+1;
    });
  };
  clearFunc= {

    //--replace with preset from here
    a= 200.rand+1;
    b= 200.rand+1;
    c= 3.0.rand2;
    d= 3.0.rand2;
    e= 3.0.rand;
    f= 0.1.rrand(1.5)*#[1, -1].choose;
    g= 0.1.rrand(1.5)*#[1, -1].choose;
    //--to here

  };
  clearFunc.value;
  u= UserView(w, Rect(0, 0, width, height))
    .clearOnRefresh_(false)
    .drawFunc_(drawFunc)
    .background_(Color.black);
  w.front;
  CmdPeriod.doOnce({w.close});
  w.onClose= {syn.free};
  Routine({
    var nextTime;
    while({w.isClosed.not}, {
      nextTime= Main.elapsedTime+(1/60);
      u.refresh;
      (nextTime-Main.elapsedTime).max(0.001).wait;
    });
  }).play(AppClock);
};
)

iPod Touch Microphone

I bought the klinkenstecker 3.5mm 4pol for €2,40 from Segor. The capsule microphone I had laying around. Sorry, no data or idea where I got it. The whole thing is very simple to build and the sound is totally all right. Now I can record into the iPod Touch and run apps like RjDj and SuperCollider with audio input.

sc140 - the scTweets Album

I'm proud to have contributed with one short track on the just-released CC BY-NC-SA 3 licensed album sc140. Download/listen: supercollider.github.io/community/sc140.html. It is compiled by Dan Stowell in conjunction with The Wire magazine and consists of 22 tracks with corresponding SuperCollider source code. The thing with this project is that all the tracks are written to fit within the Twitter limitation of 140 characters. Read the source code at: www.archive.org/download/sc140/sc140_sourcecode.txt

Reference: 140 character examples on the swiki.

thewire.co.uk/articles/3177/

EL-wire

For our recent installation at ISCM World New Music Days in Växjö (www.musicalfieldsforever.com/interactive-art/searching-voices/), I built a circuit for controlling 9x5m el-wire (electroluminescence). There are 9 channels in total and 3 inverters that are powering three 5meter cables each. TIC201d TRIACs are used for switching the 110V AC on/off, 9 led+LDR pairs (aka Vactrol) generates the control voltage for the TRIACs and wireless control for the whole thing is obtained with an ATmega8 and a pair of Nordic transceivers. SuperCollider is generating control data.