Category: music

Custom Reaper/ TouchOSC – DAW controller template v. 0.72 (late 2021)

This is an update* to the TouchOSC template I created to fit my own needs when working with REAPER (my DAW of choice). It’s not meant to replace keyboard and mouse actions, but to complement their functions and make prolonged editing and mixing work less tiring.


Download link (template, Reaper OSC config, and PDF manual)

 *This template was made with the new ultra powerful TouchOSC

It was created to accommodate my own needs when working with REAPER in different workflows (editing, mixing and sound designing).

It’s somewhat chaotic (I’m no graphics designer), but useful. So, I’m sharing it here, hoping it can help you, too! =)

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  • Bi-directional communication
  • Automatic naming of tracks
  • VU metering per track
  • Track, mixer and “MIDI controller” layouts
  • Track, transport, general, view, and item controls

AES Fall Show 2021 (workshop on Ambisonics and virtual microphones)

Another basic Ambisonics-related workshop to help people get into spatial sound.

All music examples were recorded at the Music Academy of Bydgoszcz. Thank you to everyone who helped and the students that volunteered.

https://sched.co/mKTp

Workshop description “In this workshop we will focus on multi-microphone setups for music production, using single Ambisonics microphone arrays. Ambisonics microphones are often used to record full spherical sound fields for different purposes, including virtual reality. But an especially interesting use of their spatial audio technology is the possibility to create beamformings (aka, virtual microphones) after the recording has already been done. To comment on this, this workshop will address Ambisonics recording, directionality/polar patterns, virtual microphone setup, and mixing. All this will be illustrated by practical audio/in-DAW examples of spatial recordings done in studio of several musical instruments. By the end of this workshop, you will understand the process from start to finish, being able to successfully use Ambisonics microphones as additional tools for music production. “

Farol – movie (2018)

Farol (‘Lighthouse’) is a 23 minute-long Brazilian short drama movie written and directed by Arturo Saboia.

Selected for Cannes short film catalog (2018)

Synopsis: In a distant lighthouse, a couple in crisis can no longer find common ground. Each character has their own perception of the situation.

Credits:

Director of photography Roman LECHAPELIER
Music Eduardo PATRICIO
Editing Manoel VIEIRA
Sound mixing Manoel VIEIRA
Actors Gabriela CARNEIRO DA CUNHA and Antonio SABÓIA
Producer Guarnicê Produções
(Rua São Geraldo, 42 65.065-450 Sao Luis, Brazil)

Doris – movie (2017-2018)

Horror movie by Hayder Hasen. “The film is full of fun and quirky characters with lots of surprises along the way”.
My roles: dialogue editing, sound effects, Foley, original soundtrack and mixing.

Doris is available on Amazon Prime in the UK and USA, and on http://Shorts.tv channels in the USA.

More info on the website here.
IMDb link here.

Here’s the trailer (the trailer’s sound design was not done by me):


© 2017 Darkest Day Films

Rosa dos Ventos – Music album (2013-2017)

Claudio Lima’s 3rd album, Rosa dos Ventos, is an interesting project that brings together regional Maranhao (Brazilian state), pop, classical and electronic music. It’s a song album, with several music personae glued up by Claudio’s beautiful and powerful voice.

A long project, following the singer’s process of composition and repertoire selection.
In 2013, I started working on the album’s initial arrangements, defining its aesthetic direction. I worked on it for almost 4 years as arranger and producer.
In May 2017, I led a group of musicians for the album premiere concert, playing MIDI guitar, drums, pandeiro and synths.

 

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PhD thesis – Spatial referentiality and openness: a portfolio of environmental based compositions (2016)

This is the result of my practice based research at Queen’s University Belfast (more specifically, at SARC), supervised by Dr. Pedro Rebelo and Dr. Paul Stapleton (2nd supervisor).
Here, you can find the full portfolio commentary in PDF, related posts and video documentation for each piece.

Abstract

Through a creative portfolio and an analytical and critical commentary, this research investigates the use of spatial references in the composition of semi-open environmental sound works. The portfolio explores a number of strategies to make use of spatial references as formal compositional components to enable more intuitive performance/reading experiences. The pieces present a number of electronically mediated scenarios in varied formats; concert, installation and mobile application. Counting on the intuitive way one tries to constantly identify surrounding spaces, each piece uses physical (performance/presentation spaces) and representational devices (illustrations, maps, video projections, spatialised sound etc.) to articulate and delimitate semi-open artistic experiences. Such ambiguous scenarios are enabled by both the unpredictability of elements of each work and the dependence on the subjective interpretations of the agents involved in the process. The creative processes presented here in a descriptive, analytical and critical manner attempt to make an artistic contribution and provide documental material for future reflection about related practices.

Download: commentary_PhD_thesis_Patricio_2016

Related posts: No Chords Attached; Come Across; Lock 1 memories; Sienkiewicz Pipes; Up the Hill; A Blue Bridge

Videos of the portfolio pieces:

No Chords attached (short version)

No Chords attached (full concert)

Come Across (short version)

Come Across (full concert)

Lock 1 Memories

Sienkiewicz Pipes

Up the Hill

A Blue Bridge (short version)

A Blue Bridge (full concert)

Até (demo, unreleased)

Demo version of unreleased track part of Claudio Lima’s 3rd album I’m producing.

All sounds used in this track are processed samples from Claudio’s own voice.

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Trouble (2015)

Theatre performance/installation by Shannon Yee, produced by TheatreofplucK “(…)  that creatively brings to life the voices of queer people who lived through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s in Northern Ireland. A host of the provinces best loved actors from stage and screen give voice to the actual testimony of LGBTQ people who navigated The Troubles to live, love and build community here. This fascinating performance installation uncovers a hidden queer history that is in turn moving, defiant, funny and hard hitting”.

My role: sound designer/programmer. I was responsible for recording and editing the actor’s voices, for the music composition and for designing a local network playback system (using Max/MSP) that connected 13 machines (1 laptop controlling 12 tablets) to reproduce 12 different, but synchronized, movies and 24 independent audio channels.

Interesting review / further info.

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