Archive for July, 2007

Interview with Leafcutter John, Musician

By Marsha Vdovin

I spent hours and hours agonizing over an introduction to this interview. Everything I wrote sucked and realized that I have to let him speak for himself. I think Leafcutter John is brilliant. I love his music which I have been listening to over and over. It is extraordinary, and I’m enthralled with his Max patches, which are amazing artworks in themselves. We had a series of wonderful and fun conversations over a series of weeks.

Leafcutter John is an artist and musician/performer living in London.

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The Phase Vocoder – Part II

by Richard Dudas and Cort Lippe

Introduction

In our last article about the phase vocoder we saw how to create a basic phase vocoder for time-stretching. While it is by no means a simple MSP patch, it is a useful one. In addition to time-stretching, the phase vocoder has been used for transposition and “freeze” effects, which we will be discussing in this article. If you are unfamiliar with the phase vocoder principle, we suggest you review Part I of this series of articles. Additionally, if you are unfamiliar with Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) you may wish to familiarize yourself with MSP Tutorials 25 and 26 (about fft~ and pfft~, respectively) in the Users Manual.

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