OLPC Sound Sample Archive

This one sent my way via Jacob. You can find more info on OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) here.

"Dear Colleagues, Students and Friends,

THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL SOUNDS!!!!! (a few more things are still coming online

- but the OLPC Release is official....

Please share this news, press release and links with your students, your friends, your colleagues, your mailing lists and your newsgroups....

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The Berklee College of Music, Berklee Music Synthesis Alumni, The International Csound Community, Open Path Music and Avid Technology have opened up their sound libraries to the children of the world - and YOU!!!

This 8.5 GB collection is donated under the Creative Commons Attribution License which means you can freely create, compose, mix, remix, share, distribute and redistribute these samples and use them for any purpose as long as you clearly attribute the source.

At last... free - thanks to all those who contributed.

Spread the word. Share the sounds.....

-doctorB

Here are the links:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Sound_samples

Here's the *Official* OLPC Press Release:

http://csounds.com/OLPC_SoundSampleArchive.doc.zip

While you are checking out the links and downloading the samples, you might want to check out all the cool CsoundXO stuff that has been happening on the OLPC XO laptop:

Over these past two months the CsoundXO Developers - especially John ffitch, Victor Lazzarini, Andres Cabrera, Jacob Joaquin, Cesare Marilungo, and Greg Thompson have really pushed out some new and important tools and activities for the XO. Links to some of these are below.

A most important result of this development initiative is the fact that John and Victor got the CsoundXO subset of Csound5 to be FULLY SYNCHRONIZED and TOTALLY COMPATIBLE with the current release of Public Csound (and automated the process so that they will ALWAYS be in sync!) and Andres has a CsoundXO manual that is fully synchronized as well!!!!!

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csound

+ Links to the Csound Activities, the new RPM!, the developer tools

(by Victor), and the toots.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csndsugui

+ Victor Lazzarini's AMAZING new GUI TOOLKIT for Csound Activity

Development on the XO

+ Victor has developed a wonderful small collection of tutorial

activities with sliders and buttons controlling CsoundXO

- waves - a simple additive synth

- synth - a subtractive synth with USB keyboard control

- playfiles - an 8 track remixer with record capability

- GMplayer - an iterface and instrument for loading and playing any GM file with Csound - using the Avid/M-Audio donated Sample Set

http://www.thumbuki.com/20080317/step-and-funny-talk-for-the-olpc.html

+ Jacob Joaquin's new Activities developed with Victor's Toolkit and

his blog and tutorials about the process.

* coming soon (within the next two weeks) by Greg Thompson

- CsoundEditor/Launcher - with virtual MIDI piano keyboard and CsoundXO manual integrations

+ including ALL the Boulanger Tutorials - TOOTS, Csound Book Chapter

1, Mastering Csound, Scanned Synthesis

+ including thousands of instruments and models from The Csound

Catalog plus dozens of compositions and MIDI instruments,

- CsoundRemixer - for jamming with the OLPCsound Sample Archive (and adding Csound FX instruments)

- GMPlayAlong - for playing general MIDI files with Csound and visualizing the tracks on the ascii keyboard, virtual piano keyboard and pianoroll

- PlayAlong Keyboard - for playing Csound Instruments from a USB and/or Virtual Keyboard: GMplayer, Sampler, SynthExplorer (all sorts of synths)

* coming soon (within the next two weeks) by Cesare Marilungo

- Image2Sound - for the sonification of pictures and drawings from the Journal and other OLPC Activities using his new image opcode collection.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:CSound - some thoughts on Csound for press and others

Here are the links to the XO Bundled Sound Activities (including especially the Csound Masterpiece by Jean Piché and Company

- TamTam Mini, TamTam Jam, TamTam Edit, and the SynthLab)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tamtam - all Csound - AMAZING - INTUITIVE - POWERFUL - and for Children!

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy (Some Csound)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Memorize (Some Csound)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure (Making the Csound connection now)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record (capturing audio for Csound and Photos for Image2Csound conversion - thanks to Cesare Marilungo's new Opcodes!)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Draw (paint program which with Image2Csound and Cesare's opcodes - can now be transformed to audio.)"

SynthLab for the XO - One Laptop Per Child Project

Remember TamTam? (click to check out the video) TamTam is a music suite similar to GarageBand for the OLPC XO. OLPC or One Laptop Per Child is a nonprofit organization that is trying to get laptops in the hands of children across the world, who could not afford one otherwise. You can read more about the program on the OLPC website. They are currently offering a buy one get one free up until Dec 31st, so if you are curious you can buy one for yourself and one will be sent out to a child.

What's interesting to synthheads is it will also feature a modular synth program called SynthLab. Think Native Instruments Reactor, the original Seer Systems Reality and other module based software synthesizers where you connect various components to create sound. SynthLab is "designed for older children who are ready to venture into more sophisticated sound design, SynthLab is a mini-lab for acoustic- and electronic-circuit construction." Pretty cool.

via John.

miniTamTam demo

"This is a demonstration of miniTamTam, a music application for the OLPC XO computer." You might remember the OLPC XO computer being toted as the "$100 laptop" for children around the world that cannot afford a full laptop or PC. Click here for more info.

Update: I finally got around to watching this in entirety. At the end he talks about the "synth lab" where you can create your own sounds. It looks interesting. He said there will be another video of it coming. I'll keep an eye out for it.

YouTube via natcl. Via Thumbuki.

More Info on the OLPC and synthLab

Follow-up to this previous post via Jeff Sandys:
"Sugar on a Stick is the bootable USB version for 'regular' computers: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick

tamtam SynthLab was the application I was showing:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TamTam

You can see an older demo of SynthLab on YouTube: [below]

I plan to make a better video after I get a minor bug fix into the program. My plan is to create a training guide or lesson plan that uses SynthLab and the built in oscilloscope program to learn about wave forms and sounds.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure"


YouTube via natcl | January 15, 2007

"This is a video demonstration of TamTam Synthlab on the OLPC XO computer"

THE 15TH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED

"SFEMF celebrates its fifteenth season with four exciting nights of performances featuring emerging and internationally renowned artists.

Thursday September 11 – Sunday September 14, 2014

Ezra Buchla
Nicolas Collins
Sarah Davachi
David Dunn
Headboggle + Caitlin Denny
Julia Mazawa
Joker Nies
Aki Onda
Christina Stanley
Xo Xinh
:zoviet*france:

9/11/14: Exploratorium
Kanbar Forum
Pier 15, San Francisco

9/12-14: Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street (at York),
San Francisco

The 15th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is proud to offer four evenings of stimulating performances by a diverse cadre of composers and performers in the electronic music field. This year's lineup includes a wide variety of electronic music, ranging from live tape collage, noise, musique concrete, and sound design to free improvisation. The featured artists utilize instruments such as analog synthesizers, home-brewed electronics, acoustic instruments, and laptop patches.

SFEMF has invited a distinctive group of artists from across the field of electronic music. On the main stage at Brava Theater Center we are presenting UK-based industrial-ambient legends :zoviet*france:, renowned electronic composer Nic Collins (Chicago), field recording maverick and live tape collagist Aki Onda (New York), violist/composer Ezra Buchla, German sound artist and circuit bender Joker Nies (Cologne), ambient electronic composer Sarah Davachi, violinist/composer Christina Stanley, electro-acoustic artist Xô Xinh, and ambient loop composer Julia Mazawa. And on our special opening night concert at the Exploratorium's Kanbar Forum, composer David Dunn and antic keyboardist Head Boggle (with live visuals by Caitlin Denny) will be playing through the immersive Meyer Sound Constellation system."

http://www.sfemf.org

This one in via Brian Comnes.

MEFF Modular Synthesizer Exhibition Fair Set for April 6th & 7th 2019

Tiptop Audio, Lattexplus & Synth Café present MEFF Modular Synthesizer Exhibition Fair

April 6th & 7th 2019 Impact Hub Florence, Italy

Featuring:

ARTURIA - BASTL INSTRUMENTS - BEHRINGER - CLANK - DIY SYNTH ITALIA - ERICA SYNTHS - ERROR INSTRUMENTS - EXAGONAL - FRAP TOOLS - GARRET LABS - GINKO SYNTHESE - GRP SYNTHESIZER - JOLIN LAB - L-1 - LIVESTOCK ELECTRONICS - MARTIN PAS - MIDIWARE - MILK AUDIO STORE - MODAL ELECTRONICS - MODULAR AUDIO DEVICES - MOOG - NOVATION - PURRTRONICS - QOSMO MODULAR - ROLAND - RTFM - SOMA - TANGIBLE WAVES - TEENAGE ENGINEERING - TIPTOP AUDIO -  WALDORF - YAMAHA

Modular synthesizer fair, workshops and performances with the best manufacturers and artists in the industry.

The press release:

March 2019, Italy - Tiptop Audio, the Californian modular synthesizer brand, in partnership with Lattexplus leading event organisation in Florence since 2010 and Synth Café the Italian synth web community are proud to announce the third edition of MEFF at the Impact Hub Florence and BUH! Circolo culturale urbano on the 6th and 7th of April 2019. The fair will involve more than 30 International synthesizer brands and distributors with workshops and performances in an event free to the public.

MEFF returns to Impact Hub coworking in Florence and BUH! Circolo culturale urbano to set up its event, which will include an Exhibitor area where attendees can explore, learn, interact, demo and purchase instruments. The Performance area, called the Auditorium, part of BUH! Circolo culturale urbano is a room acoustically designed by the sound designer and engineer Donato Masci. In the evenings, the location will host workshop and performances including a soldering workshop by Brno brand BASTL Instruments.

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