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Granular Synthesis - Online Resources
Granular Synthesis - Online Resources
http://www.granularsynthesis.com/hthesis/hthesis.html
Granular Synthesis - How It Works & Ways To Use It, by Simon Price:
http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/granular-synthesis
http://media.aau.dk/~sts/ad/granular.html
http://www.pd-tutorial.com/english/ch03s07.html
http://roberthenke.com/technology/m4l.html
Anastasia Georgaki (2005) The Grain of Xenakis’ Technological Thought in the Computer Music
Research of our Days: http://www.iannis-xenakis.org/Articles/Georgaki.pdf
Manuel Rocha Iturbide (2001) Searching for a global synthesis technique through a quantum
conception of sound: http://www.artesonoro.net/tesisgran/portadagran.html
Mara Helmuth (1996) Granular Synthesis Composition with StochGran and Max - PDF download:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0898122196000879
Kim Ervik, Øyvind Brandsegg: Combining granular synthesis with frequency modulation: http://
lac.linuxaudio.org/2013/papers/42.pdf
Barry Truax (2003) Music and Science Meet at the Micro Level: Time-Frequency Methods and
Granular Synthesis: http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/mviva.html
Video links:
An interview with Curtis Roads about his work and technique in three parts:
Tero Tolonen, Vesa Välimäki, Matti Karjalainen (1998) Evaluation of Modern Sound Synthesis
Methods: http://legacy.spa.aalto.fi/publications/reports/sound_synth_report.pdf
Music examples:
Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsOyxFybxPY
Experimental Music / Glitch Music / Microsound / Post Minimalism Glitch / IDM playlist: https://
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1EiOeP-_eMPquZFs3y1jlmyYCXudtGJz
Some tutorials:
Simon Stockhousen (2014) Granular Synthesis for Rookies: http://soundbytesmag.net/granular-
synthesis-for-rookies/
Absynth 5 links:
Absynth 5 Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxS6No6AP9o