Re: [microsound] beautiful compression

["ph!L @ c e n t i b e l" <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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not sure if it will do anything like this, but caotica2 does some crazy
things to sound. some of them are so useless that they are worth
examining for their potential uses.

http://caotica2.free.fr/

windows only.

ph

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>From: e.g.=F8
>Sent: 12/12/2002 11:25:19 AM
>To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;guelfert@xxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [microsound] beautiful compression
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>Hi Galen,=20
>I'm working on a similar kind of software... but I don't think I will=20
>gonna make it public :) since it's part of the artistic research that=20
>I'm carry on.=20
>Anyway just try to learn some compression basics (non-linear=20
>quantization, discrete-cosine-transform) it's not so difficult.. if=20
>you're into programming, csound or MAX-like environment you can try to=20
>build something... otherwise a not-real-time version is to encode
sounds=20
>poorly and mix them/subtract them from the original sample.. (a free
mp3=20
>encoder is LAME encoder)... or for example nice processing can be done=20
>with programs like cool edit: just have fun with the "noise reduction"=20
>filter, but select "keep noise" as output result.=20
>Anyway some very-unknown emergent artists like autechre or aphex twin=20
>are already using this kind of "tricks" in some of their tracks :)=20
>ciao=20
>e.=20
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>
>Galen Elfert wrote:=20
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> Hello,=20
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> Does anyone know if there exists a plugin or similar piece of software
> which simulates the effects of lossy audio compression algorithms=20
> (poorly encoded mp3s, old real audio, etc.)?=20
> If so, I'd like to hear about it.=20
> If not, it occurs to me that such a piece of software would be a great
> project for the more DSP inclined. The effects of such compression are
> fast becoming familiar to the general computer using population,=20
> insinuating their way into the public subconscience, or something like
> that, and what with the general popularity of the "aesthetics of=20
> failure" I think such a plugin could be hugely popular. Maybe the next
> big trendy vocal processor...=20
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> Wait a minute. Did I just see something like that in an ad the other=20
> day?=20
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> Well, here's expecting you're all way ahead of me,=20
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> Galen Elfert=20
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> P.S. Obviously one could create the effect by "simply" encoding the=20
> audio and recording/decoding that, but although that might have a=20
> certain cachet, it's much less tweakable and much more laborious.=20
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