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Thanks to SCImage ... can now make pretty pictures out of my cheap and cheerful spectral analysis.



The "spectral flatness" is expressed in pixel height, going down, so it has the appearance of icicles, I like it.

DJ Cylob in Portland, Sat 13 June 2009

with bot23, Catalog and D-Lyte

@ Groove Suite, 440 NW Glisan, PDX
9PM - Late / $5 / free before 10PM / 21+

DJ Cylob - Re:Fest, Belgium Fri 15 May 2009

Re:Fest
http://www.myspace.com/refest
www.losersalwayswin.be
Location: De QUBUS
Lindestraat 45
9700 Oudenaarde
Belgium
www.dequbus.be



I'm playing on Friday night at about 2am in the *cough, gag* IDM Room.

DJ Cylob @ Exeter, Fri 22 May 2009

Here's the lowdown on the UK Leg:



ticket outlets: phoenix box office 01392 667080
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
www.myspace.com/exeterphoenix
REFORM RECORDS EXETER

EXETER PHOENIX,
BRADNINCH PLACE,
GANDY STRTEET, EXETER EX4

FRI 22ND MAY 8PM TO 2AM
WITH GUEST DJS
CHRIS MOSS
NOISEMONKEY
EVOLUTION POSSE
tickets: £10 in advance subject to booking fee , £12 on the door

Index Of Channels

"This track contains the results of experimenting with home made resynthesis. A short sung phrase has been analysed in 24 bands for pitch, amplitude and "spectral flatness" (a scale which would have at one end a sine wave, and at the other white noise.) This information is used to play oscillators of various kinds. The control data may be transposed, slowed down or speeded up, slewed, skewed, quantised, thresholded or otherwise altered. The track begins with the original recording, followed by several resynthesised results, played live with SuperCollider and containing no additional processing."

DJ Cylob @ Berlin Sat 9 May 2009

The party is called "Skid Mark" (!)

Raum 18, Ziegrastr. 11, Sonnenallee S-Bahn
myspace.com/sameheads

The DJ Cylob Comeback World Tour Summer 2009

Imagine if a hyperbolic turn of phrase was written here, and that it had generated an excited response in your brain and body.

Note to self: don't forget to turn up for these gigs. (You think I'm joking, don't you?)

Sat 9 May: Berlin, Germany
Fri 15 May: Ghent, Belgium
Fri 22 May: Exeter, UK
Fri 12 June: Seattle, USA
Sat 13 June: Portland, USA
Wed 24 June: Moscow, Russia

[UPDATED 20 Apr to include Portland date.]

FBS Demo 3

FBS Concept

How "new" Frame Based Synthesis is, I couldn't say for sure, as elements are clearly present in FFT and possibly some forms of speech synthesis, not that I've done enough research to say so with any authority. Anyway, here's what's going on with the sound clips below.

With many synthesis systems, most of the parameters will determine the basic timbre, and then you might have a few elements to play with in order to change that over time, such as an envelope mapped to a Low Pass Filter in a classic Analogue design. My method takes an entire synth patch - which could involve an FM matrix, additive harmonic synthesis, granular sample playback or anything else - and saves it to a slot, or a "frame." Further timbres are created and saved, and then these patch changes are played back over time, creating movement in the sound. So essentially it's quite simple: instead of having to contend with 30 envelopes or something like that, you just design the timbre as it will be at a particular moment in time. For each step, varying degrees of lag can be applied to the parameters, creating smoother transitions if required.

The fun comes when having created a sequence with many steps. Pitch, rhythm and timbre have been rendered together in a kind of playlist, which I call a page. Pages can be recalled at will. They may be instantly loaded, or a smoother interpolation between the current page and a new page may be enacted. This "morphing" between pages can be specified as any number of steps, and given a curve argument, so that changes at the start and end of the transition period are more (or less) subtle that those in the middle.

There is clearly a lot more scope to this technique, not least that now an entire musical sequence along with its timbre is specified in full as simply a series of numbers, many different transformations can be applied for interesting results. Using this method to create melodies would be made easier with the use of a more intuitive interface, rather than the current grid of numbers. Also I'd like to work on making the code itself more efficient, as at the moment, faster transitions suffer from timing problems. As usual, I've made this stuff with SuperCollider.

Frame Based Synthesis

Here are a couple of new demonstration tracks for the concept I've been fiddling with lately. A more in-depth explanation will follow.

England In Late May

Hi, I'm in the process of arranging a gig in Devon on Friday the 22nd of May. If you are a promoter in England who might like to sort something out on the day before or after, please contact me a.s.a.p. Cheers!

Couple O Gigs and maybe more.

Hi, happy new year!
I'll be DJ-ing in Dr. Pong again this coming saturday 14th March, going head to head or back to back or whatever with usual Pong resident Skkatter, and I recently said "yes" to Re:Fest in Ghent, Belgium, where I'll be playing a set on the 15th May. DMX Krew is playing the same festival but I'm not sure if we'll be playing on the same day.
It's also looking on the cards that I'll be making it out to Seattle in the middle of June, with the shadowy possibilities of appearances in Portland and Chicago.

Secret Gig

This is a secret: I'll be playing a few tunes through the "modest" sound system at some bar or other in the evening of 2nd January, in association with one of the regular DJs, whose name escapes me, Slakker or Skittler or something like that ????

DJ @ Killekill Berlin Jan 7 2009

First gig of the new year, I'll be playing Killekill at the Berghain Kantine in Berlin in Deutschland on January 7th as hinted in the title, see you there, obviously.

If you want to know what to expect (or what to avoid), scroll down this page for a ton of MP3 downloads from previous sets (oh okay lazy bones, just click here, here or here.)

P.S. I realise the excessive updates to this blog are most probably melting your RSS feed, sorry about that.

Fractals For Dinner

Ambient set available for download

Now that the magical threshold of, um.... 22 comments has been reached, here is the recording of the "semi-live" set from Tampere last month. Enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mzdb2hawjmj
Password: gol47wh


(p.s. If you appreciate this album-length presentation of remixes, remade classic tracks and new material, you are always welcome to donate towards equipment costs.)

DJ in Stavanger, Norway 22 November 2008

This new date has been agreed, and details will appear here just as soon as information about it is forthcoming.

UPDATE: here we go -

venue: Tou Scene/stavanger/norway (www.touscene.com)
capacity: 200 - 250
artists: Cylob, Auton (norwegian IDM/Electronica) Dj Mo`10
opens: 22.00/03.30
CC: 90/50


I'm DJ-ing for 2 1/2 hours with the usual insanity, see you there!

Vinyl Update

Sorry I've been a bit slack on this, it's the winter vibes kicking in I'm afraid. Anyway I've received several wants lists, and I'm going to work out what to do soon. If you're interested in any of these records listed below, now is the time to get in touch. I can post anywhere. So far, Are We Not Men and Kinesthesia Volume 2 are in demand beyond availability, I'm not sure how to resolve that!

Metal Fish On Stalks, In Potsdam

Obviously

Vinyl Stock To Go

I have some surplus stock which I just don't have room for any more. These are unplayed copies, currently located in Berlin. Any interest in acquiring them can be directed to dj_cylob@durftal.com.

Kinesthesia Volume 2 x 3
Cylobian Sunset x 9
Rewind x 12
Living In The 1980s bw Sex Machine x 9
Cut The Midrange x 17
Cylobotnia x 3
Cylob Music System Volume 1 x 6
Cylob Music System Volume 2 x 3
Spider Report x 2
Are We Not Men Who Live And Die x 6