Jeffrey P Shell: Sound Design

Moving Toulouse

Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:24:27 GMT

Industrie Toulouse has moved to A new home (toulouse.amber.org) and a new publishing system. Most of the archives will be there soon. The Radio site will remain up indefintely, but no new content will appear here.

MacWorld

Tue, 07 Jan 2003 20:10:01 GMT

Good MacWorld. A curious non-announcement - Apple's X11 for Mac OS X public beta. I love that new 12" PowerBook. If I can ever find it in my heart to replace my beloved white iBook, it will be with that. Right now, this 500Mhz G3 is suiting me fine, but to have a full PowerBook with a PC card slot and audio input!, that would be sweet. Now if only Pro Tools 6 Free would come out (I still haven't heard if they'll continue that program), and Supercollider 3 would come out. Well, I guess I could always go over to the other side and check out Max/MSP's beta for "Mac OS X".

new york elw 1999

Thu, 05 Dec 2002 00:12:36 GMT

It's hard to believe that these recordings were done 3-3.5 years ago. There's nothing like a sunny day spent with friends crammed into cars driving out of the great city to a small airport on long island with power toys, recording equipment, pedals, and a full pack of lucky strikes. (idlewild mk1 and idlewild mk0). Nor is there anything quite like spending a brilliant winter solstice night under the brightest full moon in decades in NYC's Murray Hill neighborhood with a beautiful friend, a minidisc recorder, a full pack of lucky strikes, and an urge to whistle. (tuscany court ih'ladriel). Garbage trucks and energy, followed by a night of drinking and a hyper day of shopping. I miss the East sometimes. http://euc.cx/epx/ny_elw.html

Sound of the Fence

Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:37:02 GMT

Cool Site nod: Snow of Butterflies. Good design, nice sounds. And speaking of good design and nice sounds, Eucci & Co. have wrapped up (finally) production on Nova Express for No Type's Sine Fiction series. Now, as soon as the studio is cleaned up a tiny bit, work can go into production of More Summer Dress Fire, a collection of small live performances harking back to the ELW's Modern Belongs to Us days of gallery/warehouse/alleyway/bunker recordings. And more still coming soon.

Transitions in waiting.

Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:55:28 GMT

I'm trying to transition back into posting. But - what to say? I've been working hard during the day (and taking the pleasure of avoiding work when NOT at the office), where I'm away from Radio. I think it's time to move Radio Userland onto my iPod (and go - again! - through the pains of moving Radio) to keep it mobile (the path should stay the same, regardless of whether the iPod is attached to my workstation, my iBook (which is still going unused these days due to a SMC Wireless Barricade whose power adapter with strange requirements is missing in action), or my iMac. Or, I can open Radio up to post to over a blogging API and host it on my always-on workstation. I don't know. I'm never at the machine I want to be on when I have something interesting to say. It may also be time to move to Movable Type or some other server side setup, of which Movable Type seems the most complete. But then there's the issue of moving past posts in Radio to MT. Or I could write up an FDoc based solution for "Zope" and the CMF (FDoc is the pending product name for my compound document project that I've been working on off and on over the past few months), but I don't have the time or will-to-care to do that much coding outside of work. I have other things I'm behind on, like wrapping up the Eucci & Co. entry in No Type's Sine Fiction series, and putting together the More Summer Dress Fire release - I don't even know how big that one's going to be, and whether I should be seeking out putting it on CD, or getting a release on No Type, some other online label, or continue to put it up at Euc.cx. And, ski season is coming up, and I really need to start bringing in more money to support my drinking habit (the Cabana Club has become a second home to me now). It's not that I drink heavily (well...), but that the good Scotch's, the good vodka's, the good beers, etc. And maybe a fine cigar or two. And friends. And then there's all those CD's to import from Japan, such as Pizzicato Five and Yukari Fresh, DVD box sets like The Godfather Series, and the first three seasons of The Sopranos while I sit and dream of a deluxe box set of ALL episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street. And did I mention S k i i n g?? sigh And I didn't even talk about traveling. Oh well, as long as I can continue to do SOME of those, life will be good. There are other aspirations as well. So somehow, "Zope 3" weekend experimenting is a little off the charts right now, but where I get a chance to work with it at the office, I will. And of course, there will be reports here. In the meantime, buy this and this - finest packaging and noises. And in the mean-mean time - the democratic party is dead to me right now, and I'm having a hard time even finding a stomach to cast a vote this year. (there, now this post can land in the political category too).

the jersey acquisitions

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:08:16 GMT

Then, I get home to find a new issue of The New Yorker in my mailbox, as well as keys to one of the big package mailboxes - my copy of Throat's 60" somewhere / 60" somewhere else CD's. EUCCI (myself) appears on 60" somewhere - a collection of one minute unedited field recordings (which are remixed on 60" somewhere else, also in one minute intervals). What I'm most amazed about in the past week is how well quiet noise (ahem) works such as 60" somewhere else or Nurse With Wound's A Missing Sense (particularly the reissue featuring the Ostranie 1913 version of DADA - in this sense, Merzbild Schwet works equally well) blend into the eclectic Pizzicato 5 album さ・え・らジャポン (sa e ra japon). The transition is unbelievable. And delightful.

0a.sn---ns-

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:09:04 GMT

(
Synth.play({
	var home, fname, file, fname2, file2, dur;
	home = "bliss:bliss:bliss:sweetcorn:Eucci-2:z.New Eucci:0a.sn---ns-:";
	fname = home ++ "hyrum57_01";
	fname2 = home ++ "bassDI_01";
	file = SoundFile.new;
	file2 = SoundFile.new;
	dur = 5.0 * 60;
	file2.readHeader(fname2) and: file2.preloadData;
	file.readHeader(fname) and: file.preloadData;
	a = DiskIn.ar(file, true) * 1.4;
	d = DiskIn.ar(file2, true);
	e = FSinOsc.ar(11800, mul:Crackle.ar(1.8));
	b = KateShuffler.near([d,a], 2.5, 0.7, 0.05)
	  + KateShuffler.near([d,a], 5.0, 1.2, 0.02)
	  + KateShuffler.near([d,a], 5.0, 0.2, 0.12, keep:true)
	  + KateShuffler.near([d,e,d], 1.25, 0.3, 0.08, keep:true);
	c = (RHPF.ar(b, 4180, 0.3) + RLPF.ar(b, 480, 0.13));
	j = KateShuffler.near([b,c], 1.5, 1.4, 0.0021, keep:true)
       + KateShuffler.near([b,c], 3.0, 0.7, 0.001, keep:true);
	j ring1: OnePole.ar(LeakDC.ar(j, 0.35), 0.35) * 0.8;
})
)

The Nova Lark

Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:29:10 GMT

There should be plenty of upcoming work from Eucci & Co.. I spent much of the weekend gathering and compiling a near final mix of a release that should show up on No Type as part of the Sine Fiction series. New ways of tape rape, or in the words of William S. Burroughs, "Clearly the whole defense must be experiments with two tape recorder mutations."

EUCCI, luxury spring coming soon

Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:31:38 GMT

I've had the privilege recently of working with a talented composer and musician, Kate Cheuffer. Strangely, she falls into a bizarre line of artists/writers/dancers I know that are/were computer and even modem savvy at some point in the nineties, but have no real internet presence. It's interesting that some people can be so brilliant yet introverted or misanthropic enough to avoid the great anonymous playground that the Internet can be. I did a few installation sound pieces for Kate's small music conservatory. I'm listening to one now that...I don't know how I feel about it. It's a beautifully minimal piece, done with Kate herself, a droning organ and wildly misshapen guitar strings. They're synthesized in this version, but it's all based on an actual event. It's fascinating to listen to - it's all programmed using Supercollider 2, a real time audio synthesis language for Mac OS. The modeling of some of the string plucks came out really well. Part of me wants to take it and craft it into a real track, somehow. Kate says to just keep it minimal. Being geared towards installation instead of headphones and computer speakers, the design dynamics of the pieces I'm going to release online shortly are quite different than a lot of EUCCI material released in the past. There's even less structure. A piece can be any length, and are almost best left ongoing... There's going to be a big loss of perceptive quality as the delivery mechanism goes from conservatory/gallery to MP3.

Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:39:18 GMT

It has suddenly become a day for eating crunchy peanut butter and listening to The Hafler Trio. Loud.

Fri, 19 Apr 2002 06:56:29 GMT

Pershing Square. Dig.