This is the listening prompt given to participants on their map: "This piece is about using listening (and walking) to create and interrogate our relationship with a place. The use of technology serves as a method to expand our listening and, therefore our relationship. The establishment of a relationship with a place, and the memories we form there, is the creation of our own personal map, laid at a 1:1 scale over the real, physical world. This map that you are holding is just an ordinary map which tells you where to go, how to get there, and what you can expect to hear along the way. While you walk, feel free to take your headphones in and out as you please, and to adjust the volumes of the Real World and the Tuned World however you like. Along the way, work to expand your listening beyond what is real and possible: imagine how this walk would sound if you were as small as an ant, or if you were one of the many birds you will hear in the trees. How loud must the buzzing bees sound from the perspective of the flowers? What does it sound like on top of the nearby mountains that you can see from the path? Or on the tops of the trees? Or at the bottoms of their roots? These imaginary listenings are another layer of your map, of your listening relationship with the place that we are all in today. Go out and listen…is it possible?" The title comes from Hildegard Westerkamp's article soundwalking: https://www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca/writings/writingsby/?post_id=13&title=soundwalking Songs for Tree by Kristy Farkas Songs for Tree is a collection of scores, photographs and prints dedicated to the last standing old growth forests on Vancouver Island. The scores suggest ways in which we might find, rediscover, or deepen our connectedness with the natural world through deep listening, play, imagination, and reflection. More info: https://www.kristyfarkas.net/songs-for-tree.html Selections from Songs for Tree was be performed by: Eva Bradávková, flute Melissa Goodchild, clarinet Erik Abbink, saxophone Alex Klassen, cello Daniel Brandes, melodica, voice Kristy Farkas, melodica, percussion Mobile app: Built in Pure Data, run on Daniel Iglesia's MobMuPlat platform: Pure Data zip file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T8dVI0FHO_YIHp4JqPgIETn37jE5JUaa/view?usp=drive_link iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/app/id597679399 Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iglesiaintermedia.mobmuplat After installing the MobMuPlat app, you can download the zip file and follow prompts to open it in the app. Hopefully it works for you! At the actually symposium I ended up having to airdrop it to most iOS participants. Thanks to the Sound Genres Symposium organizers Anthony Tan, Joe Salem, and Taylor Brooks. Thanks to everyone who came out and listened!

So I used this Max4Live device to create one layer of my composition "Go for a Walk" (which will hopefully be released soon). The entire project is a 5-track, 45 minute cycle of soundscapes and drones. Super grateful to @saskarts for their support for this project!

So I'm trying to read In Search of Lost Time, and I'm on Volume 3 (started Volume 1 in 2018), and I just read this passage on the sensations of sound, and I felt like this particular line described how I feel about this moment in this piece I'm working on, which is going to be called "Go for a Walk" but has been working-titled "Walking Music" since October 2021. It's basically finished now, and that is only possible due to the support of the SK Arts Independent Artist's grant, for which I am super grateful. Thanks a heap, Tiess Oh and I made this quick sonogram visual using Max/MSP and screen recorded it on quicktime and tried to use iMovie for movie magic, but it kept degrading the quality, and I'm not really good at video editing so I just uploaded it as is. thx.

A small piece that took a long time to make - featuring clips from my favourite movies and Etude no. 23 from the Rochut book. Made using Max, hit me up if you wanna look at the patch - there's a lot of lists! Performed at the 2nd iteration of the Ambient Observatory concert series in Saskatoon on Oct. 16, 2022. Thanks to Chad, Spencer, and Constantine for having me! Follow the series at: IG: @ambientobservatory FB: https://www.facebook.com/ambientobservatory/ #trombone #movies #maxmsp

Last October 12, 2021, my wife and I were walking in the evening at edge of town in Estevan, SK. Today I was editing recordings for my long-in-progress piece (working title "Walking Music") and noticed this little piece within the piece. The form of a truck passing, the music of what happens. The sonogram visualization was made in Max/MSP. My "walking music" project is generously supported by Sask Arts. More to come! #sonogram #maxmsp #soundscape

All credit on the lyrics mashup goes to Zander Rose from the Mountain Goats Shitposting Facebook group. I was supposed to do a lot of "real" (com)Posing work today, but instead I did some stupid things to make me feel alive. Amy aka spent Gladiator 1 by the Mountain Goats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeU57voLjKE from their excellent 2012 album Transcendental Youth: https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/transcendental-youth And of course Climb Ev'ry Mountain by the legends Rogers and Hammerstein, sung by Peggy Wood in the film version: https://youtu.be/RKuqySkqhHw Both songs have helped me face my problems, live the life I was born to live, and, most of all, just stay alive. #themountaingoats #soundofmusic #meme

First time chatting through a patch, not sorry if it's awkward :p A work in progress for Guitar Hero Controller and Max/MSP, based on J.S. Bach's Bourrée from the Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 for Guitar. I originally started this piece in the spring of 2021, and was trying to implement it in Ableton Live, with a couple of M4L devices, but I had tons of problems with bugs and wasn't able to finish it for the spring concert at UVic where I was studying. But I revisited it a few weeks ago, and realized a different approach all in Max that worked way better. This is part of an ongoing project where I'm trying to develop some virtual and augmented instruments which are informed by performance practice and are built for the purpose of creating compositions and/or improvisations stemming from both the instrument design and the emerging performance practice. Find me at tiessmckenzie.ca instagram: @tiessmckenzie 0:00 - Performance/Demonstration 2:45 - Max Patch Walkthrough #Cycling74 #GuitarHero #Bach #MaxMSP

Just got this Rucci matrix mixer which is great for feedback loops. I've got two transducers/exciters on the sides of the wooden tea box, and a contact mic on top. My cousin brought the tea back from Nepal a couple years ago; the tea was very good. The transducers are feeding back from the outputs of the focusrite. It's all recording into Reaper. Video captured on iphone SE (2016). Audio reactive visuals made in Jitter. Hit me up if you want to see the patch, it's a bird's nest but it works decently. Improvised on the afternoon of February 14, 2022 (before making Valentine's Day supper and black bean brownies for my wife). Not quite zero-input, but close. Nearly-zero-input mixing? Is that a subsubgenre? #Jitter #Ambient #Noise