Giovanni Iacovella - Particle Castle Bubble Party!
Channel: kriista
Date: 07/12/2020

Particle Castle Bubble Party! is an offshoot of Gib Gab, which are free lessons/conversations/consultations/mentoring/time/support which I’ve been doing for over five years(!) now. The idea is to take what is normally a temporally and (somewhat) spatially-bound conversation, and turn it into a more openly-shareable video with media and links baked into the video which will hopefully be of interest to others.

Giovanni and I first crossed paths on the Sensory Percussion forum when I showed some early sketches for SP Tools, a set of tools for using Sensory Percussion hardware natively in Max. After exchanging some emails we spoke some more and realized we shared (a lot more) common interests and decided to chat further about them. In this Particle Castle Bubble Party! we talk about general musical interests and overall approaches as well as doing a proper deep-dive into the world of onset-based audio analysis, sample playback, and Sensory Percussion hardware.

Giovanni Iacovella: 
https://www.instagram.com/giovanni_iacovella
https://shesanalog.bandcamp.com/releases

For more information:
http://amplifiersandexplosions.com/particle-castle-bubble-party

Produced by Angela Guyton
http://www.angelaguyton.com

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Things mentioned in video:

Audio Descriptors - Essentia’s collection of algorithms:
https://essentia.upf.edu/algorithms_reference.html

Audrey Chen - vocalist and improviser:
http://www.audreychen.com

C-C-Combine - demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5AgH1leBUU

Chris Corsano - drummer and improviser:
http://cor-sano.com

Confetti - collection of Max for Live devices:
http://rodrigoconstanzo.com/confetti/

Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis - paper by Diemo Schwarz:
https://www.academia.edu/12993775/Corpus_Based_Concatenative_Synthesis

Corpus-Based Sampler Performance Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMGHqyyn1TE

FluCoMa - signal-decomposition and machine learning tools:
https://www.flucoma.org

Fred Frith - guitarist and composer:
https://www.fredfrith.com

Giovanni Iacovella - performance videos:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAmwWDjILi-/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_j5-t0onjI/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXB-ZEIrXD/

HISSTools Impulse Response Toolbox:
http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/14897/

Ian Chang - drummer and Sensory Percussion user:
https://www.ianchangmusic.com

Ian Chang - Spiritual Leader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS7rDZhcHL0

John Cage - composer and philosopher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage

John Zorn - composer and saxophonist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn

Kœnig - interesting drummer:
https://lukaskoenig.com/

Mel Bands - perceptual scale of pitches:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_scale

MFCCs - audio descriptor for “timbre”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel-frequency_cepstrum

Microphone Correction - using HISSTools on a hi-hat contact mic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxXSOyKp-lQ

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay - performer, composers, and lead of FluCoMa project:
https://www.pierrealexandretremblay.com

Reaper - power DAW:
http://reaper.fm

Sensory Percussion - machine learning for drums:
https://sunhou.se

Sensory Percussion Transient Comparison:
https://forum.sunhou.se/t/sensory-percussion-tools-for-max-msp/885/14

Skeletons - Matt Mehlan’s peculiar band:
https://shinkoyo.bandcamp.com/album/if-the-cat-come-back

Sleaford Mods - punky electronic British band:
https://www.sleafordmods.com

Son Lux - great band with Ian Chang:
https://sonluxmusic.com

Spectral Centroid - audio descriptor for “brightness”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_centroid

Spectral Flatness - audio descriptor for “noisiness”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_flatness

Yasunao Tone - Japanese artist and composer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunao_Tone