A Dive Into Granular Synthesis - online resources

Granular synthesis theory:

An overview of granular synthesis and the techniques involved, by Timothy Opie:

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

Granular Synthesis - Introduction and parameters, by Stefania Serafin:

http://media.aau.dk/~sts/ad/granular.html

Granular Synthesis - a short introduction, by Barry Truax: http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/gran.html

Granular synthesis in Pd programming, by Johannes Kreidler:

http://www.pd-tutorial.com/english/ch03s07.html

Riverrun Production Notes, by Barry Truax: http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/river.html

Granular Synthesis Resource Site, by Timothy Opie: http://www.granularsynthesis.com

Granular synthesis software list (incomplete):

http://www.granularsynthesis.com/software.php

Granulator and other M4L devices by Robert Henke:

http://roberthenke.com/technology/granulator.html

http://roberthenke.com/technology/m4l.html

Borderlands Granular by Chris Carlson:

http://www.borderlands-granular.com/app/

Papers / further reading on granular synthesis:

Curtis Roads (2002) Microsound. Book and audio compact disc. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA.

Google books link: http://tinyurl.com/ouk8ahs

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 (1991) Riverrun notes: http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/river.html

Barry Truax interview (1991) http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/barry.html

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:

Part 1: “The Breakdown” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xy0szkt7ao

Part 2: “Getting Granular” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ehu8u_JTjw

Part 3: “Build It Up” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4y_e3TLyk

Other interesting stuff:

Barry Truax: Composing Music with the Environment (lecture): https://vimeo.com/12474371

Paul Lansky: More Than Idle Chatter notes (1994) http://paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu/liner_notes/

morethanidlechatter.html

120 Years of Electronic Music (2015): http://120years.net

Interactive Swarm Space (2010) Basic Synthesis Techniques: http://swarms.cc/documentation/

isoSynth/basicSynthesis.php

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

Barry Truax - Riverrun (1986): http://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/excerpts/Riverrun.mov

Curtis Roads - nscor (1980) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZjpnttuAiE

Curtis Roads - Nanomorphosis (2003) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzHxEIBh7fo

Curtis Roads - Sonal Atoms (2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mQ8zRZOlrk

Paul Lansky - Idle Chatter (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMmwq1Iy_8

Paul Lansky - Notjustmoreidlechatter (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecm5PKTiVhw

Barry Truax - Riverrun (1986) http://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/excerpts/Riverrun.mov

Mara Helmuth - Mellipse (1989) http://marahelmuth.com/audio/pieces/Mellipse-highqual.mp3

Experimental Music / Glitch Music / Microsound / Post Minimalism Glitch / IDM playlist: https://
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1EiOeP-_eMPquZFs3y1jlmyYCXudtGJz

Brian Clevinger on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/brian-clevinger-1

Some tutorials:
Simon Stockhousen (2014) Granular Synthesis for Rookies: http://soundbytesmag.net/granular-
synthesis-for-rookies/

Nick Collins - SuperCollider tutorial: http://composerprogrammer.com/teaching/supercollider/

sctutorial/tutorial.html

Absynth 5 links:
Absynth 5 Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxS6No6AP9o

Native Instruments - Absynth 5, feature details: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/

komplete/synths/absynth-5/feature-details/

Art + Music + Technology Podcast 131: Brian Clevinger (2016) http://artmusictech.libsyn.com/

podcast-131-brian-clevinger-absynth