For more info...

People

Barry Truax - Canadian composer and one of the pioneers of granular techniques. There are some articles on granular stuff in the Compositional Techniques section of his site.

Curtis Roads - A professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and another granular pioneer. Author of several excellent books, including The Computer Music Tutorial and Microsound.

Wende Bartley - Canadian composer who has made use of granulation. Her work Ocean of Ages Revealed comes highly recommended.

Granular~Synthesis - The German duo. Included here for obvious reasons. ;-)

Scott Wilson - your humble author...

 

Software

Third Monk Software - Home of MacPod, a cool granulation app for Mac OS9.

SuperCollider - The excellent and powerful object-oriented music and DSP programming language for Mac OS9 and (soon) OSX. Open source and free!

PodBuf - My free Mac OS9 granulators, based on SuperCollider. Supports multichannel output. SuperCollider class files are also available here.

Cycling '74 - Makers of Max/MSP, a graphical music and processing programming language for Mac and (soon) Windows.

Pure Data - A free, compact, and considerably less supported version of Max (see Cycling '74 above). Runs on lots of platforms.

Audiomulch - A shareware windows program, similar to Max/MSP.

Soundhack.com - Soundhack is a free program for Mac OS which does all sorts of interesting and wonderful processing, including timestretching. Not of the granular variety, but I'm not fussy.

 

Reading (mostly hardcore)

Granular Synthesis - An short article on Gordon's page (apparently no last name, kinda like Madonna).

Another article on Eric Kuehnl's site.

Ecologically-based Granular Synthesis - An interesting paper on using granular techniques to produce environmental sound, by Damian Keller and Barry Truax.

Granulation of Sampled Sound - An article by Barry Truax.

Sound Compression/Interpolation by Granulation - A short paper by Takebumi ITAGAKI.

 

Organisations

Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects

Canadian Electroacoustic Community - A group uniting composers from Canada and around the world. Many good articles and a helpful email list (cecdiscuss).

The Canadian Music Centre - Information on Canadian music and composers.

 

 

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