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A Structure Synth creation.
Exported as object to Blender, beveled the edges of the pillars, applied materials and rendered with cycles
Remake of one of my old structures (the old version was before the Sunflow exporter was written).
The contrast was pumped up in Paint.net.
That package "U105" is really odd. I've never seen anything like that before, and have no idea what it is. U104 is the same type of thing. Given the size of the traces and caps near them, I assume they're power-related, and that's why they have such a huge package. Maybe some sort of regulator?
My girlfriend's sister created this synth cake for my birthday. Modeled loosely off the Yamaha DX7 (which I have but she didn't know that I had), and using marble cake batter, Kit Kats for the black keys, Jolly Ranchers, and some licorice decorations here and there. Visit her site for more cake stuff (she does awesome work): bake-thoven.squarespace.com/notes/2010/1/23/just-sit-at-h...
When I was up at Random Hacks of Kindness there was an interesting cacophony of noise coming through the walls. I wandered around to find out what it was, and stumbled upon the Annual Analog Synthesizer Meeting.
It's a group of audiophiles who use only analog circuits to make music. They generally hand solder their systems, though you can get kits.
The systems produce sound like this:
soundcloud.com/badr0b0t/maths-module
(listen to it about halfway through, it starts off slow)
Info on Hacker Dojo:
hackerdojo.pbworks.com/
Facebook page for the Analog Synth meeting:
subblue inspired this attempt with his very cool eisen script.
It reminded me a lot of a scanning electron micrograph of "water bears" (a.k.a., tardigrades).
Created with Structure Synth and Sunflow.
[FYI: as of this posting, the exporter in Structure Synth for sunflow doesn't export the camera settings, so you'll need to manually tweak the .sc file to get things the way you want. It's a giant pain, for the time being].
©2008 David C. Pearson, M.D.
www.flickr.com/photos/42514297@N04/10273988494/sizes/o/
Click to view enlarged collage
May this collage continue to expand!
"Music transcends the barriers of nations, nationalities and religions. It is through music that the universal feeling of oneness can be acheived in the twinkling of an eye".
-Sri Chinmoy
'Defining the indefinable - In the moment, multi-dimensional, experimental, expression, improv, rhythm, line, texture, energy, thickness, fluidity, space, freedom...
Making music with a world view, deconstructing and reassembling with joyful abandon.'
-Premik Russell Tubbs www.premik.com
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Contact/Listen
New music coming soon!
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Most recent recordings and projects:
In 2012 Premik recorded with 2011 Grammy nominee vocalist and composer Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon. 'Over 75 musicians came together to record the album in the US and India combining ancient traditional instruments like the rhumba, calypso, ektara, dugdugi and esraj with saxophone, banjo and piano to transcend musical boundaries.'
www.indianexpress.com/news/chandrika-tandons-new-album-in...
Sound Samples: www.amazon.com/Soul-March-Chandrika-Krishnamurthy-Tandon/...
www.cdbaby.com/cd/chandrikakrishnamurthyta2 Check out "JOG"
Recording projects in 2010-2012 with Grammy award-winning producer and founder of Windham Hill Records Will Ackerman include albums by Fiona Jay Hawkins, Shambhu, Dean Boland, Rebecca Harrold, Ronnda Cadle and Masako.
Will Ackerman: ...‘The criteria for who works here go way past simple talent. Imaginary Road is my home and I’m only letting wonderful people into my home. I don’t care how talented you are; if you’re not able to wear your heart on your sleeve don’t bother to turn up. We use Keith Carlock (Sting and Steeley Dan) as a drummer too along with Arron Sterling (John Mayer and Sheryl Crow). Only last year I met Premik Russel Tubbs who plays sax and wind synths for us.
‘Premik has become part of the family...'
www.newagemusicworld.com/will-ackerman-interview-new-in-2...
Premik recorded with Heidi Breyer and accompanied her at the ZMR Awards 2013, staged in New Orleans.
www.zonemusicreporter.com/admin/performers.asp
ZMR Awards 2013 -Best Instrumental Album – Piano - “Beyond the Turning” - Heidi Breyer - Winterhall Records, produced at Synchrosonic Productions by Grammy winner Corin Nelsen. www.heidibreyer.com/
Premik, in conjunction with jazz pianist Uli Geissendoerfer heads Bangalore Breakdown, an exciting, world music ensemble. They released their first CD, titled Diary, in 2008. In the words of noted Jazz author Bill Milkowski: Is it world music? Is it jazz? Is it some kind of new uncategorizable fusion that hasn’t yet been labeled?
Sound samples here: www.bangalorebreakdown.com/music.html
Premik and Uli Geissendoerfer will soon be releasing their own collaborative duo CD titled Passport to 'Happyness' (yes, happiness with a 'y'') www.ulimusic.com
Premik will soon be featured in Carman Moore's Cd “Concerto for Ornette” in which Premik will play the orchestral solo saxophone part. Premik is also the featured saxophonist with SKYBAND on its recording of Carman Moore’s “DON AND BEA IN LOVE,” a fantasy concept album roughly about the intense Renaissance love between Dante and Beatrice which, in part, takes place in outer space! Carman Moore is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship winner. www.carmanmoore.com
TriBeCaStan
Premik (saxophones, flutes, lap steel, wind synth)
Performing in:
25th Anniversary of the Rainforest Fund Benefit Concert
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
7 PM
www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2014/4/17/0700/PM/25th-Anni...
Premik solo in SINGING THE OCEANS ALIVE CONCERT with the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Fairfield Hall concert LONDON, ENGLAND APRIL 25, 2014
Watch/Listen
YouTubes
Premik solo with the London Royal Philharmonic performing "Apla Kathar."
The main melody was composed by Sri Chinmoy & orchestrated by Vapushtara Matthijs Jongepier.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbhReDbyIOY
High praise from Craig Pruess:
"The piece was excellent, thrilling even, very well orchestrated, and your playing was note perfect. An honor to work with you, my man." –Craig Pruess Composer, Musician, Arranger, and a Gold & Platinum Record Producer
www.heaven-on-earth-music.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4euUuBNUzco
Song of the Ocean by Kristin Hoffmann
All performers of the evening take the stage with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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World / Jazz / Experimental / Improv / East-West / Ambient / Pop
PREMIK RUSSELL TUBBS
Premik, a composer, arranger, producer and an accomplished multi-instrumentalist performs on various flutes, soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, wind synthesizers, and lap steel guitar.
Premik has worked with everyone from Carlos Santana, Whitney Houston, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Ravi Shankar, Narada Michael Walden, Clarence Clemons, Ornette Coleman, Jackson Browne, Jean-Luc Ponty, Lonnie Liston-Smith, Scarlet Riveria, James Taylor, Sting and Lady Gaga, just to name a few. He is equally adept in pop, R&B, jazz, world and experimental genres.
Sax solos on #1 Hits -: “How Will I Know” (Whitney Houston) and “Baby, Come To Me” (Regina Belle).
Premik's first major recording breakthrough was with John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra on the album“Visions of the Emerald Beyond.” Premik was a major part of the landmark Carlos Santana album "The Swing of Delight" which featured Herbie Hancock as co-arranger and co-musical director. Also featured were Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Ron Carter and several members of the Santana band.
www.premik.com/recordings/discography/
In 1978 Premik joined Carlos Santana on a six-week European tour as part of an opening act for the Santana Band called Devadip Oneness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=beD58ordH08
"Gardenia" - DEVADIP European tour w/ Carlos Santana, Dec.'78 in Paris
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=juVuh...
!978 Devidip Orchestra Live In Sweden
Extended bio: www.premik.com/bio/
Bio Credits:at a glance:
www.flickr.com/photos/42514297@N04/8621166727/
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Using Flickr – if not signed in (may differ if signed in)
1. www.flickr.com/photos/42514297@N04/sets/72157632988389457...
-Slideshow – Album Set, A Life Of Music - to be cont'd. ...(with GRATITUDE!)
(Click above link and once in the SLIDESHOW click on (upper right) 'Options' to control speed & Show Info’ to see captions w' slideshow
2. To the right of any photo – click upon the oval icon with Premik’s photo to go to the full page of all photos posted (the ‘Photostream’) or the X in the upper right corner to return to the full page of the Set album you are in
3. Click the small rectangle icon to the right of the full album ‘set’ page to see the SLOW ‘ANIMATED’ slideshow of photos within the album
4. To see individual photos –just click on any photo you would like to see from the full page. Caption will appear to the right
5. Scroll down the caption until you see small thumbnail sized photos – click the 3 dots directly under these photos- Click on ‘Download / All sizes’ to see photo enlarged
This will allow you to enlarge the photo you are viewing (or click to see as a slideshow as in #1.)
Note: Much of the above works well with CELL PHONES when good WiFi connection is available
The ability to enlarge photos for detail with cell phones is surprising.
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A performance test of Structure Synth.
The tree is composed of one million boxes.
This takes 3-4 seconds to render on my laptop with its standard integrated Intel Graphics Adapter.
Hint: in Structure Synth, when holding 'ALT' only 5000 randomly chosen objects are drawn (as dots) making it possible to interactively position the camera.
The code is the standard 3D tree code:
set maxobjects 1000000
{ h 30 sat 0.7 } spiral
{ ry 180 h 30 sat 0.7 } spiral
rule spiral w 100 {
box
{ y 0.4 rx 1 s 0.995 b 0.995 } spiral
}
rule spiral w 100 {
box
{ y 0.4 rx 1 ry 1 s 0.995 b 0.995 } spiral
}
rule spiral w 100 {
box
{ y 0.4 rx 1 rz -1 s 0.995 b 0.995 } spiral
}
rule spiral w 6 {
{ rx 15 } spiral
{ ry 180 h 3 } spiral
}
A new era in Structure Synth (at least for me) - generating all the rules via javascript!!!!
I knew you could use javascript but I never went further than to use it for some animations - bad mistake!!
Turns out you can write complete rule sets using javascript and you have access to math functions and variables this way.
I have written a short tutorial over at DA which should be accessible by the public
Structure Synth + Sunflow
EisenScript:
#define shrink s 0.996
set maxdepth 1000
set background white
set syncrandom true
set colorpool image:001.jpg
set minsize 0.5
5 * { x 2 } 1 * { s 0.2 0.2 1 } s2
rule s2 md 25 {
{ z 1 } s2
start
}
{ s 500 500 0.1 color #333 } box
rule start { 6 * { rz 60 } hbox }
rule hbox md 10 { r }
rule r {
set seed initial
forward
}
rule r { turn }
rule r { turn2 }
rule forward md 90 > r {
dbox
{ rz 2 x 0.1 shrink } forward
}
rule turn md 90 > r {
dbox
{ rz 2 x 0.1 shrink } turn
}
rule turn2 md 90 > r {
dbox
{ rz -2 x 0.1 shrink } turn2
}
rule turn3 md 90 > r {
dbox
{ ry -2 x 0.1 shrink } turn3
}
rule turn4 md 90 > r {
dbox
{ ry -2 x 0.1 shrink } turn4
}
rule turn5 md 90 > r {
dbox
{ rx -2 x 0.1 shrink } turn5
}
rule turn6 md 90 > r {
dbox
{ rx -2 x 0.1 shrink } turn6
}
rule dbox {
{ s 0.2 1 1 color random } box
}
I've added a new feature to Structure Synth: the random seed can now be reset inside a rule. The command for this is: 'set seed initial'.
Now every rule call branch maintains its own sequence of random numbers. This makes it possible to generate the same set of random numbers as used earlier, by resetting the random number seed at some point.
In the example above, when the line branches the system is rotated, scaled to half size and the seed is reset. This way we will get exactly the same structure in a smaller scale. So it is a way to achieve self-similarity for stochastic systems.
I think this could lead to some very interesting structures. This will be part of Structure Synth 1.0 when released.
EisenScript code.
spawn
rule spawn {
set seed initial
r1
}
rule r1 w 0.4 {
{ x 1 } r1
box
}
rule r1 w 0.01 {
}
rule r1 w 0.1 {
{ x 1 ry 90 } r1
box
}
rule r1 w 0.1 {
{ x 1 ry -90 } r1
box
}
rule r1 w 0.01 {
r1
{ rz 90 s 0.5 hue 120 } spawn
}
Very very nice vintage minimoog synth. One of the most sought after synths in the world! In hard anvil type case
When I was up at Random Hacks of Kindness there was an interesting cacophony of noise coming through the walls. I wandered around to find out what it was, and stumbled upon the Annual Analog Synthesizer Meeting.
It's a group of audiophiles who use only analog circuits to make music. They generally hand solder their systems, though you can get kits.
The systems produce sound like this:
soundcloud.com/badr0b0t/maths-module
(listen to it about halfway through, it starts off slow)
Info on Hacker Dojo:
hackerdojo.pbworks.com/
Facebook page for the Analog Synth meeting:
This poster is for my final major project looking into promotions for events and the imagery associated with it. So for a part of my final product I'll have three gig posters with my dream line ups (oh baby) and this is part one. Heavy synths for sure! a few of my favourite bands around at the moment based in the UK. I must point out this isn't a real event, nor a real venue so sorry to get your hopes up for such an awesome show :(.