[PD] ANNOUNCE: ANTSynth - Pure Data prototype premiere

[Tyler Leavitt]

Very nice!

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Love it!
>
> I suggest you look for research funding for that ASAP
>
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 18:59:12 +0200
> From: lorenzofsutton at gmail.com
> To: pd-list at iem.at
> Subject: [PD] ANNOUNCE: ANTSynth - Pure Data prototype premiere
>
>
> Dear Pd community,
>
> The international research team of which I am a humble member (PPMR -
> ParaPonera Music Research) is proud to release today the first working
> prototype of ANTSynth (see below) developed as Pure Data patch.
> Attached is a standalone prototype patch which should work directly in
> Pd (make sure DSP is working and use the main toggle to start).
>
> Testing and (constructive) critique are very welcome (please consider
> this is very preliminary!!)
>
> Regards,
> Lorenzo.
>
> A little background on Antsynth (more details and links in the patch and
> future posts):
>
> ANTSynth is a cutting edge, innovative synthesis method. It stands for
> Ant Stimulation Turmoil Synthesis. Inspired by Natural Science, Biology
> and pioneering Engineer studies it creates unique additive-aggregate
> mesh-able (over)tones with complete formations of broad spectra which in
> turn the modern composer can imply (we think) in any composition.
> ANT synthesis is inspired by the Natural Sciences as it translates into
> sound some of the most interesting patterns of ants' complex social
> behaviour as outlined by Ted R. Schultz in his paper “In search of ant
> ancestors”. ANTSynth is created by an international team of biologists,
> engineers, sound designers and programmers (PPMR) and will be released
> as Open Source in the hope that it will be useful for the future
> generations of researchers, sound designers, artist, biologists, composers.
> Many questions and issues about the feasibility and optimisation of
> ANTSynth remain but preliminary results seem to be promising.
>
> Minimal background bibliography:
>
> D. Moody , A Field Study of the Ant Trail Phenomenon , Division of
> Natural Science , The University of Findlay , 2000
> John M. Chowning, The Synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra by Means of
> Frequency Modulation, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 1973
> Julius O. Smith III. "Additive Synthesis (Early Sinusoidal Modeling)".
> Retrieved 2012-01-14. "The term "additive synthesis" refers to sound
> being formed by adding together many sinusoidal components" -
> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sasp/Additive_Synthesis_Early_Sinusoidal.html
>
> Ettershank, G. 1965. A new modular-design artificial ant nest. Turtox
> News, 43:42–43.
> Holldobler, B., M. Moglich, and U. Maschwitz. 1974. Communication by
> tandem running in the  ant Camponotus sericeus. Journal of Comparative
> Physiology, 90:105–127.
> Horn, D. J. 1976. Biology of insects. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia.
> [Pages 3, 16–31, 207–208,  238–240]
> Jacobson, M. 1972. Insect sex pheromones. Academic Press, New York.
> [Pages 1–2, 79–100,  and 101–120]
> Markin, G. P. 1968. Handling techniques for large quantities of ants.
> Journal of Economic  Entomology, 61:1744–1745.
> Moody, D. L. 1981. Ant trails. The American Biology Teacher, 43:452–453.
> Wilson, E. O. 1963. Pheromones. Scientific American, 208:100–114.
>
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