cut this picture on a 12 inch:
here's is the result: http://youtu.be/7JTb9r9y62w
info about the artists who did this, here:
http://www.sonosthesia.com/
http://www.octex.si/
http://www.readwritemusic.org/
cheers
mex
cutting patterns on a record
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cutting patterns on a record
we just finished a rather interesting little assignement:
cut this picture on a 12 inch:
here's is the result: http://youtu.be/7JTb9r9y62w
info about the artists who did this, here:
http://www.sonosthesia.com/
http://www.octex.si/
http://www.readwritemusic.org/
cheers
mex
cut this picture on a 12 inch:
here's is the result: http://youtu.be/7JTb9r9y62w
info about the artists who did this, here:
http://www.sonosthesia.com/
http://www.octex.si/
http://www.readwritemusic.org/
cheers
mex
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nice work, mex! yes, I think this record will play 
if you have every played some dancemusic on vinyl,
you have noticed, that some records still have patterns
from the music.
normally, you have them, if the BPM is arround 133,
so if you want to cut a pattern, you maybe choose fixed pitch,
but variable pitch can also work.
the you split your track into 1.8second long parts, every part
is one complete cycle.
and if you want to have another reflection at a point, you have to place a bassdrum or whatever on this point.
normally, that´s all.
I don´t know, which sound looks the best, maybe a snare, combined with a bassdrum and highhat at the same point can make a nice reflection
and, you need a very stable running turntable
is it cutted on the neumann or with the souri technics mex ?
very nice work!
if you have every played some dancemusic on vinyl,
you have noticed, that some records still have patterns
from the music.
normally, you have them, if the BPM is arround 133,
so if you want to cut a pattern, you maybe choose fixed pitch,
but variable pitch can also work.
the you split your track into 1.8second long parts, every part
is one complete cycle.
and if you want to have another reflection at a point, you have to place a bassdrum or whatever on this point.
normally, that´s all.
I don´t know, which sound looks the best, maybe a snare, combined with a bassdrum and highhat at the same point can make a nice reflection
and, you need a very stable running turntable
is it cutted on the neumann or with the souri technics mex ?
very nice work!
yes it does play.
the process is sort of like this:
- scan grafix
- convert pixel info to midi signal
- trigger synth and record.
the frequences trigger what kind of texture you are getting.
we had to cut approx +2-4 db to get a clearly visible image.
was a little tricky since the signal was kinda pink noisy and
very dynamic.
please check the links in the prevous post. i dont want to take the credit for the artists work here.
we will however do some mor cuts like this - this was the first (ever?) test ...
cheers mex
the process is sort of like this:
- scan grafix
- convert pixel info to midi signal
- trigger synth and record.
the frequences trigger what kind of texture you are getting.
we had to cut approx +2-4 db to get a clearly visible image.
was a little tricky since the signal was kinda pink noisy and
very dynamic.
please check the links in the prevous post. i dont want to take the credit for the artists work here.
we will however do some mor cuts like this - this was the first (ever?) test ...
cheers mex
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Aussie0zborn
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hi,
we did a cut - fixed pitch - on neumann and vinyl recorder.
both works. the final cuts we did on sour's machine. since the audio was
quite brutal and we needed high volume.
the audio is not really musical, but this will be the next step.
so far we did only dubs on pvc, a limited batch of 250 or so colored 12inches seems feasable.
ill keep you posted
mex
we did a cut - fixed pitch - on neumann and vinyl recorder.
both works. the final cuts we did on sour's machine. since the audio was
quite brutal and we needed high volume.
the audio is not really musical, but this will be the next step.
so far we did only dubs on pvc, a limited batch of 250 or so colored 12inches seems feasable.
ill keep you posted
mex
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image2groove. cutting patterns to disk
hello
very nice.hehe
here some more stuff on the topic:
1. the analog crude way. for the analog fundis....
we did years ago same thing in a very primitive way..
just glued a infrared reflex coupler to the head suspension.
the output was connected to an analog switch. for example
cmos analog switch 4066,4053 for two differnet tones...
then we put a black&white image to the turntable and started with pixed pitch
to scan the image. every time the sensor passed a white spot it opened the switch and it changed frequency (4053) or switched off the sound (4066).
this signal was recorded. then we just where cutting that sound file...
2. the nice digital way.
last year the austrian artist &turntablist Dieb13 sent me a programm he developped. the same purpose but it converts directly form a jpg,png file to a soundfile. you can either use as a source sinus, whitenoise or any sound file of your choice.
the programm is under the GPL license free to use. enjoy.
you can find it here...
http://www.floka.com/lofi/nicestuff/image2groove.tar.bz2
it is a linux command line tool:
you start with
./image2groove -d pitch -s input_soundfile.wav/.aif -o output_soundfile.wav/.aif bild.png/.jpg
pitch is the theoretical time in seconds the stylus needs from the outer start to the center of the record....
if no input sound file is choosen it takes a sinustone
with -f you can choose which frequency the tone should be.
you need to have libgdand libsndfile installed.but thats anyway the case on most systems.
enjoy and thank Dieb13 for the wonderfull software...
very nice.hehe
here some more stuff on the topic:
1. the analog crude way. for the analog fundis....
we did years ago same thing in a very primitive way..
just glued a infrared reflex coupler to the head suspension.
the output was connected to an analog switch. for example
cmos analog switch 4066,4053 for two differnet tones...
then we put a black&white image to the turntable and started with pixed pitch
to scan the image. every time the sensor passed a white spot it opened the switch and it changed frequency (4053) or switched off the sound (4066).
this signal was recorded. then we just where cutting that sound file...
2. the nice digital way.
last year the austrian artist &turntablist Dieb13 sent me a programm he developped. the same purpose but it converts directly form a jpg,png file to a soundfile. you can either use as a source sinus, whitenoise or any sound file of your choice.
the programm is under the GPL license free to use. enjoy.
you can find it here...
http://www.floka.com/lofi/nicestuff/image2groove.tar.bz2
it is a linux command line tool:
you start with
./image2groove -d pitch -s input_soundfile.wav/.aif -o output_soundfile.wav/.aif bild.png/.jpg
pitch is the theoretical time in seconds the stylus needs from the outer start to the center of the record....
if no input sound file is choosen it takes a sinustone
with -f you can choose which frequency the tone should be.
you need to have libgdand libsndfile installed.but thats anyway the case on most systems.
enjoy and thank Dieb13 for the wonderfull software...
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Aussie0zborn
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The other links Mex posted show the record in good lighting, fwiw...
e.g., http://www.sonosthesia.com/
I love watching him smoke in the lab coat.
- Gib Levleur
"Peter, ich habe kein zigaretten."
e.g., http://www.sonosthesia.com/
I love watching him smoke in the lab coat.
- Gib Levleur
"Peter, ich habe kein zigaretten."
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