Author: Pedro Bosch Morales

Youtube Inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfBlSMHQEDKBMpDtRcw33Kq4UzYb6fuv0

This is a list of videos that have inspired me in the last 6 months.

Acoustic approach to ecology

Post author By Pedro Bosch Morales
Post date 17th May 2022
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Conversation between David Toop and Lawrence English.

Lawrence started by talking about short-wave radio and electromagnetic mics and how these can another form of field recording and listening to our environment. Short-wave radio gives you a wide access to all sort of frequencies, but it allows you to narrow down the frequency to receive specific information. He compares this to the practice of deep listening.

“Field recordings can be sound photographies”

During their conversation there many mentions on how technology helps us understand our environment in new ways, it allows us access information that we didn’t had previous access. An example given by David was he mentioned how elephants communicate through infrasound, and how we managed to understand it with sound visualizers.

Electronics Second Year

DIY Eurorack module

I got this module by Music Thing modular (graphic EQ). They took the circuit of the GE-7 by boss and made in into a Eurorack module.

I though it would be a good project as an intro to building electronics, since all the components are already built, it’s just the soldering that has to be done.

Using my friend Sam’s soldering Iron, we managed to get it working in less than an hour, followed by a fun jam with his modular system.

I’ve enjoyed the module so far, it gives really nice coloration to my other modules, and it will be a fun tool for live sets. It’s specially great for drones, since you have a seven band eq to shape the sound.

I have a couple of complaints about the ways it’s built. One of them being that in order to increase the frequency, you turn the slider to the left. This is a bit illogical but i’m getting used to it. I also wish the frequency band was a bit wider, just to have some control over the sub frequencies.

I’m excited to build more DIY modules, since its good practice and makes the modules a bit cheaper.

Personal Exhibiting Second Year

Gallery 46 proposal

My idea:

By using the combination of a Bela board and Pure Data, I thought of building a panel that the visitors can manipulate through the touch of their hands. This gives the audience the opportunity to create a performance.

I made the sequencer using euclidian rhythms and markov chains, probability and other generative/algorithmic techniques. For the synth I wanted it to be sort of organic sounding, so I used Karplus-Strong synthesis to replicate the sound of a string being plucked. By then using the bela board this patch is being.

My idea came from my trip to Barcelona and being inspired by their architecture. I started reading about how architecture can influence our subconscious and I saw how architects planned their buildings to allow its inhabitants to avoid feelings of loneliness. This idea inspired me very much since this proposal is meant to be installed in the gallery, using the tools of an architect to control ‘time and space’. I wanted to make a panel that visitors could interact with and make a positive impact on them afterwards. By creating a synthesiser which generatively creates melodies which are pleasant to listen to, I think the visitors would appreciate the possibilities of improvising with just their hands.

Tech needed:

Bela board and components
Table for the panel
Panel
Stereo active monitors. Example : Yamaha HS7

Performance:

I would like to make a live improvisation performance using Pure Data to sequence a Digitakt using the generative sequencer I’ve built, making some sort of ambient Techno/IDM set.

Pure Data Patches:

Generative Sequencer

Karplus-Strong Synth

Position in the Gallery (Gallery 1,3 or 4)

Second Year

Beautiful esoteric piece of music

Second Year

Elektron gear is the best!

Second Year

Exploration Second Year

Sacred Geometry

One of the most important discoveries of the new quantum physics is that of the holographic nature of the universe. The geometric language of light, that forms the underlying matrix of this hologram, is the alphabet of the new paradigm.

The primary infrastructure of all existence is written in the Sacred Geometric language of light. All is light … all is geometry.

Sacred Geometry is the ‘graphic code’ that reveals the processes of inherent order underlying all of creation.

The Harmonic Series is the hidden code, the starting point in creating the basic patterns of sacred geometry.

We can find it in nature and in sound.