Category Archives: General

Sleepstream – ambient radio

I almost forget. I took about a decade or two of music I have made partly with Harri and edited this into a stream https://jinx.dy.fi/sleepstream/
Music to dream to (may contain traces of nightmares)

As an exercise in futiliity I tried vibe coding. First I made a reverb VST-plugin with Juce and X-code, it works quite well. Made an graphical SFTP-client with Tkinter (and Python of course). I took about three days to make and works too.

Some little games that The Big Pickle and Gemini seem to have been pre-programmed for (Space Invaders, Boulderdash, a simple flight sim). All were easy to make and very dull. This I started to use regularly: https://jinx.dy.fi/~jussi/trim/ You give it a bunch of drum samples (or any other) and it either normalizes them or trims the silences in both ends of the sample and then normalizes. It uses a WebAssembly version of FFmpeg and does the processing in the browser.

A lot has happened

I started to work as a full time lecturer at Oulu University of Applied Sciences. I have taught courses varying from Data Analytics to web site design, Contextual Design and project courses. Had one certificate on testing too and made part of a course for that. Then I started at the new unit at OAMK which focuses Research, Development and Innovation (TKI-yksikkö).

About music. Now learning (as a hobby) more about different scales, microtonality, transforming between scales and other fun stuff, including historical stuff of how different modes have sculpted the evolution of music. Hopefully something will come out of this.

Reading Peter Watts’ Rifters-series, Read Echopraxia and Blindsight too. Can recommend.

Behringer TD-3

Another inexpensive 303-clone. 90€ from a sale. Previous excperience with such devices is Roland TB-3 which is of the Aira line and very much digital. TD-3 isn’t but it has an onboard distortion which i’m not sure. Behringer claims its all analog and it seems to make certain signature sounds much better than TB-3. Have to test this out a bit more. Here is the first sounds I got out. TD-3 got usb midi, din midi in and out and cv synch in/out etc. connections for semimodular/modular gear.

No effects, quick test on how the filter behaves with distortion

Master’s thesis about a new multitouch sequencer and classification of instruments

“… Seq1 is an aleatoric music sequencer aimed for soundscape creation and live performance. (Väisänen & Jauhiainen, 2010, p. 1) It intends to address problems with certain attributes of aforementioned instruments. Inspiration for the design came from such software based musical instruments as the reacTable which has been used by contemporary musical artists in their live performances. reacTable and recent musical instruments like it are based on large multitouch screens…”

Read the rest here if you will. The history bit might be interesting at least:

Masters_Thesis_Jussi_Vaisanen_2016.pdf