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Love it!<br><br>I suggest you look for research funding for that ASAP<br><br><div><div id="ecxSkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 18:59:12 +0200<br>From: lorenzofsutton@gmail.com<br>To: pd-list@iem.at<br>Subject: [PD] ANNOUNCE: ANTSynth - Pure Data prototype premiere<br><br><pre>Dear Pd community,<br> <br>The international research team of which I am a humble member (PPMR - <br>ParaPonera Music Research) is proud to release today the first working <br>prototype of ANTSynth (see below) developed as Pure Data patch.<br>Attached is a standalone prototype patch which should work directly in <br>Pd (make sure DSP is working and use the main toggle to start).<br> <br>Testing and (constructive) critique are very welcome (please consider <br>this is very preliminary!!)<br> <br>Regards,<br>Lorenzo.<br> <br>A little background on Antsynth (more details and links in the patch and <br>future posts):<br> <br>ANTSynth is a cutting edge, innovative synthesis method. It stands for <br>Ant Stimulation Turmoil Synthesis. Inspired by Natural Science, Biology <br>and pioneering Engineer studies it creates unique additive-aggregate <br>mesh-able (over)tones with complete formations of broad spectra which in <br>turn the modern composer can imply (we think) in any composition.<br>ANT synthesis is inspired by the Natural Sciences as it translates into <br>sound some of the most interesting patterns of ants' complex social <br>behaviour as outlined by Ted R. Schultz in his paper In search of ant <br>ancestors. ANTSynth is created by an international team of biologists, <br>engineers, sound designers and programmers (PPMR) and will be released <br>as Open Source in the hope that it will be useful for the future <br>generations of researchers, sound designers, artist, biologists, composers.<br>Many questions and issues about the feasibility and optimisation of <br>ANTSynth remain but preliminary results seem to be promising.<br> <br>Minimal background bibliography:<br> <br>D. Moody , A Field Study of the Ant Trail Phenomenon , Division of <br>Natural Science , The University of Findlay , 2000<br>John M. Chowning, The Synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra by Means of <br>Frequency Modulation, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 1973<br>Julius O. Smith III. "Additive Synthesis (Early Sinusoidal Modeling)". <br>Retrieved 2012-01-14. "The term "additive synthesis" refers to sound <br>being formed by adding together many sinusoidal components" - <br><a href="https://ccrma.stanford.edu/%7Ejos/sasp/Additive_Synthesis_Early_Sinusoidal.html" target="_blank">https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sasp/Additive_Synthesis_Early_Sinusoidal.html</a> <br> <br>Ettershank, G. 1965. A new modular-design artificial ant nest. Turtox <br>News, 43:4243.<br>Holldobler, B., M. Moglich, and U. Maschwitz. 1974. Communication by <br>tandem running in the ant Camponotus sericeus. Journal of Comparative <br>Physiology, 90:105127.<br>Horn, D. J. 1976. Biology of insects. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia. <br>[Pages 3, 1631, 207208, 238240]<br>Jacobson, M. 1972. Insect sex pheromones. Academic Press, New York. <br>[Pages 12, 79100, and 101120]<br>Markin, G. P. 1968. Handling techniques for large quantities of ants. <br>Journal of Economic Entomology, 61:17441745.<br>Moody, D. L. 1981. Ant trails. The American Biology Teacher, 43:452453.<br>Wilson, E. O. 1963. Pheromones. Scientific American, 208:100114.<br></pre><br>_______________________________________________
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