Free and easy on Louisa Street. This feels like the perfect way to start the summer: playing a house concert with Thug Duo (Simon Lott and Justin Peake) in New Orleans on Saturday. It’s an early show, so come on out and there will still be time to catch some food or music or both afterwards.
Saturday May 31 5:30pm
721 Louisa Street (btw Royal and Dauphine)
New Orleans LA
Thug Duo: Simon Lott & Justin Peake
Holland Hopson
This is the fifth set of example Pd patches ported to Max from Andy Farnell’s Designing Sound book. It includes some wonderful insect sounds along with sophisticated footsteps, bird and mammal calls.
Download Sound Design Practical Series – Lifeforms
If you haven’t already, be sure to download the Sound Design Practical Series helper files
Thanks to Bruce Turner for including “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” in this time-lapse video of a bison excavation in Burnet County TX. Read more about the excavation here.
Here are the sounds of a suspension bridge I recorded on a recent trip to Camp McDowell in Nauvoo AL. I used two contact mics, one on each set of main cables. The bridge was surprisingly quiet during normal use and even when I bounced and jostled it a bit, so I tapped and scraped on the structure with a few sticks. Sounds best on headphones!
This is the fourth set of example Pd patches ported to Max from Andy Farnell’s Designing Sound book. It includes some of my favorite patches for creating clicks, electric fan and engine sounds.
Download Sound Design Practical Series – Machines
If you haven’t already, be sure to download the Sound Design Practical Series helper files
Here’s the second-generation prototype of a soprano sax / trumpet mouthpiece hybrid. This was printed on a Makerbot Replicator 2X. I modeled the soprano sax mouthpiece base and appended the geometry of a Bach 1-1/2C trumpet mouthpiece found on Thingiverse. The trumpet cup is a bit roomier than the previous prototype; I think I’ll try a trombone-sized cup next. Here’s the STL file so you can download, modify and print your own.
Whenever I try this mouthpiece on my horn my son yells at me to “Stop that horrible noise!” So it must be working…
Collect all 209!
Here’s a preview article for this weekend’s Huntsville Master Chorale concerts. My works is described as “anarchic experimental.” I’ll take it!