Thorsten Sideb0ard is a San Francisco based programmer and musician. He runs the yearly conference/music festival, Algorithmic Art Assembly,
the Highpoint Lowlife organization, and works on his own live coding environment, Soundb0ard, a REPL based compositional and live performance tool.
Description of performance: Thorsten will be utilizing Soundb0ard to perform live, writing pattern generating algorithms which control aspects of the various Soundb0ard instruments, which include subtractive, fm and granular synths, and a sample library of jump-up rave anthems.
Description of talk: While there are many tutorials and books to be found on how to write subtractive and FM synthesis, when it came to writing a granular synthesis engine for my own Soundb0ard environment, I struggled to find many practical code examples. Based upon reading Curtis hodes’ ‘Microsound’ book and an detailed blog post by Robert Henke, I came up with my own granular synth engine. In this talk I will walk through the code and implementation.
