KVR Audio

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Sun May 18, 2014 9:13 pm

I kept meaning to experiment properly with full track cross-modulation, and a friend unwittingly suggested some tracks he heard while shopping in a hardware store; U2's 'Mysterious Ways' and Snap!'s The Power'

https://soundcloud.com/cinningbao/she-m ... ious-power

kryptonaut · Post by **kryptonaut** » Mon May 19, 2014 2:32 pm

That works rather well! Interesting experiment - have you got any more lined up?

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Mon May 19, 2014 9:16 pm

Doesn't it just?! I've not got any lined up but I think I should test a few different styles against each other to see what they bring out, in each other.

Blues vs Deep house, Baroque vs Country.. If you've got any suggestions, I'm all ears! .. as it were..

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Mon May 19, 2014 11:46 pm

interesting, some parts sound really great. I really like the idea of using shopping music - the technique fits the idea that shopping music is more or less interchangeable. Did you write the software to do this?

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Tue May 20, 2014 6:49 pm

thanks woggle

I use Spectrumworx to mangle with FFT audio processes, which is what this is. The Inserter module combining the two signals.. after pitching and timing the source material appropriately. There's probably a lot more to discover in the world of shopping music, but at the moment I'm content with imagining combinations and implementing them. I have an idea of what the FFT algorithms do to the sound, so I can predict fairly well what might 'work'.. having said that, there are always those happy accidents we all yearn for!

Today I went with Prodigy and Phil Oakey

https://soundcloud.com/cinningbao/electric-space

edit---
except it's been blocked! inevitable i suppose..

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Tue May 20, 2014 7:16 pm

The result is amazing, I guess there's still some room for improvement.

I have an idea of what the FFT algorithms do to the sound

FFT algorithms calculate Fourier transform, as their name suggests. The question is, how is this info used to modulate sound later on? How does the signal chain look?

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Tue May 20, 2014 8:29 pm

listened for a bit to see what you were up to.

absolutely filthy feeling. my fault, i shouldn't have been sucked into the technical fascination and taken that 'u2' part of the description seriously. guess a mashup has to be constituted of popular elements to draw attention tho.

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Tue May 20, 2014 8:46 pm

CinningBao wrote:thanks woggle

I use Spectrumworx to mangle with FFT audio processes, which is what this is. The Inserter module combining the two signals.. after pitching and timing the source material appropriately. There's probably a lot more to discover in the world of shopping music, but at the moment I'm content with imagining combinations and implementing them. I have an idea of what the FFT algorithms do to the sound, so I can predict fairly well what might 'work'.. having said that, there are always those happy accidents we all yearn for!

Today I went with Prodigy and Phil Oakey

https://soundcloud.com/cinningbao/electric-space

edit---
except it's been blocked! inevitable i suppose..

thanks, I have been occasionally tempted by Spectrumworx - bummer that new track doesn't list on soundcloud

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Tue May 20, 2014 10:17 pm

xoxos wrote:listened for a bit to see what you were up to.

absolutely filthy feeling. my fault, i shouldn't have been sucked into the technical fascination and taken that 'u2' part of the description seriously. guess a mashup has to be constituted of popular elements to draw attention tho.

thanks mr

and i deeply apologise for the bad feels. i mean i _could_ combine reich and/or cage... i prefer pop hooks for, yes, maximum potential penetration.

how about this
https://app.box.com/s/b64r5o1oqakf91pw6z5v

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Tue May 20, 2014 11:03 pm

i'd probably approve of that cage number convolved with any broadcast ready music

it's all like sitting next to phil spector and he's got a hard on and mike aquino is on the other side of you making dovey eyes and kissy faces back at him to me now

nice idea tho *wonders how sound of pac-man game would do convolved with various material would work for sampler food,ty*

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Mon May 26, 2014 8:34 pm

closest i've come so far now is level42 with elgar; i just need to find a decent printable score of elgar to time sync the recording..

i thought this one worked quite well though:

https://soundcloud.com/cinningbao/neverending-heat

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Sun Jul 20, 2014 3:28 pm

Everyone loves the Beach Boys, and The Stranglers certainly made their mark in the Annals of music, so I thought I'd ruin two nice things with one fell swoop.

Here comes the Beach Boys singing Surfin' USA to the tune of Peaches by the The Stranglers.

https://soundcloud.com/cinningbao/stran ... eaches-usa

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:49 am

It worked for me. Especially the new take on the Peaches groove.

Good work

cron · Post by **cron** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:58 am

Whoa! Fascinating sounds. Thanks for sharing. Peaches USA sounds almost like a malfunctioning amp at times.

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:49 am

Hey thanks cron and seismic1 - glad you like the brokenness!

It seemed obvious to me, after a few days of this madness - stimulate a track with just vocals; do as a vocoder does.
Our old friend Bobby McFerrin covered Drive My Car in the late 80's, so this is that, stimulating The Beatles' original frequencies.
If you listen carefully you will hear the original guitar solo being squeezed through McFerrin's esophagus.

https://soundcloud.com/cinningbao/bobby ... ive-my-car

FFT mashup