This is a thread to post to when you find some written matter (online or in print) you want to share. It’s not for video or podcasts, which are well served outside this thread.
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Oh here I am again!
I’m currently reading lots of stuff, but mainly I’m interested in digital signal processing (the fancy name for doing what we do with digital chips and how it relates to analogue electronics (which turns out to be amazingly well.) This assumes you have decent understanding of maths, but it’s not so hard.
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And I think I need to mention the inspiring Faust system. The most amazing thing here is that you can write a Faust program and it will be translated to whatever sound producing system you want.
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Here is an interesting article about quality DPCM.
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Anybody who has seen my theremini playing knows that it’s of the “wave your hands randomly in search of a pretty noise” variety. I want to change that, though. So with that in mind I’ve bought a PDF download version of Carolina Eyck’s book, The Art of Playing the Theremin.
This is a rather ambitious move on my part. Even tuning the theremin by ear represents a challenge to me, let alone actually playing something musical. I’m living with the knowledge that as a 63-year-old my life expectancy may be a matter of days due to causes beyond my control. This has helped me to make the decision to spend as much as I can of what time is left learning how to control those two antennae.
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If you are interested in digital signal processing I can recommend the tutorial papers about Effect Design written by the late Jon Dattorro and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. Here is a link to one of them: Effect Design (part 1). I based a 31 terts band vocoder on this which I have been using for years and published a plugin for VCV-Rack of about a year ago.
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Some more reading for DSP interested people can be found in this repository: Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx). I guess to read all these may take some time. No, I’m not being clear enough, it will really take some serious time. Probably the rest of your life. It contains papers presented at DAFx for the last 22 years.
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Well I’m currently reading ‘Analog Days, The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer’ by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco. Theres quite a bit about Buchla in it too.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Trevor Pinch last month — and his 1973 DIY synth, still up and running:
(“last month”?? Seems like a year ago!)
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I had never heard of him. He’s a fascinating guy. I found this talk where he discusses how he constructed his synth in the physics lab because he couldn’t afford to buy a synth, not even a VCS-3.
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This will be out in a couple of weeks. I noticed that there is an earlier edition of the book, has anyone read that?
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I have. It is a superb resource.
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Good to hear,I just pre-ordered the new one.
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As well as some limited time offers on their Live products, Ableton are temporarily providing free downloads of their book: Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers.
This book is DAW-agnostic, and most of the ideas can readily be applied to any production technique at any level.
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thanks that was great to listen to him . like Sam it makes you feel like yes you can do it too , just keep learning and pushing on past the fails .
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Fans of weird instruments, electronic or not, might be interested in this one; ebook is on sale at $2 right now:
I haven’t read it but I’m picking it up.
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