Like Emerson said:

Stop the quotations. Tell me what you know.

Sound Synthesis

Here are a few WebAudio synthesizers programmed with the DSP language Faust:

• DRONE 1 tunes a stack of parallel mode-filters to generate harmonic and inharmonic sounds.
• DRONE 2 is similar to DRONE 1 but using a stack of comb-filters.
• DISTORTION uses an exponential formula to wave-shape an incoming sine-wave.
• WARNING. These are experimental processors. Beware of potentially high output levels.
• In the user interface, use the 'gate' checkbox to start/stop the sound.
• If you receive a warning diaolg about MIDI not enabled, it will not affect the synthesizer. One can safely click ok.

• SONFIY turns climate data into sound. This application works best in the CHROME browser and uses the p5js javascript library.
• In DOODLE one can draw graphics that are traced by a synthesizer - turning line drawings into sound by using p5js.
• Both apps work best inside the CHROME browser.

Theravada Buddhism

• Venerable Ajahn Sona, Abbot of Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery, publishes videos of his teachings and Dhamma talks on his youtube channel.
• Since the pandemic began in 2020, Ajahn Sona has made himself available for regular online question and answer sessions.
• The page Q&A SESSIONS provides a complete catalogue of questions with direct links to the video answers given by Ajahn Sona.
• In QUESTIONS FOR THE MONK, one can type a question about the Dhamma and the app will recommend a list of videos that will be relevant to the question.
• For each video, a list of keywords is given to inform about the content.

Coding

In 2018 I wrote a book: Computational Models of Rhythm and Meter. In this book, I propose a method for automated transcription of pieces of music based on audio recordings. You can watch a demo. I also talk about models for musical rhythm that went into my software chunking.

• DEMO: a brief demonstration of my transcription technology.
• DOWNLOAD SAMPLE: Chapter 3 in pdf format.
• CHUNKING takes you to the github repository

Talk at the International Csound Conference about chunking:

Music composition

I have been making and creating music for over fourty years. One can listen to my latest compositions on youtube and soundcloud.

• THE 4 ELEMENTS is a work in progress for piano and orchestra. Here is a video of the second movement.
• ASPEN is a piece for piano solo and electronic sounds that i have written after my stay at the Birken Monastery.
• ASPEN is part of the cycle ARBORETUM for piano solo, where every piece was inspired by a specific tree or landscape.
• AD INFINITUM is an electronic piece that was composed using Shepard tones and Risset glissandi.

Links to my youtube channel and soundcloud page below.

About Georg Boenn

Composer Georg Boenn teaches at the Music Department of the University of Lethbridge in the Digital Audio Arts program. He studied composition at the University of Music in Cologne, Germany. His teachers include Jürg Baur, Krzysztof Meyer and Clarence Barlow. After graduation, he studied the Cursus d’Informatique Musicale at IRCAM, Paris. In 2011, Georg completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bath, UK, where he worked on Algorithmic Composition and Automated Music Transcription. Georg was resident artist at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, and at the Atelierhaus Worpswede, Germany. He worked as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. He taught Electronic Music at the University of Music, Bremen, and was a Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Technologies at the University of South Wales, UK. Georg's musical output contains works for solo instruments, ensembles, vocal music, orchestral and electronic music. Georg’s main areas of research are algorithmic composition, rhythm, and expressive timing. His latest book, Computational Models of Rhythm and Meter, published by Springer Nature, explores new methods for composition, analysis, and transcription of musical rhythms, meter, and form. By taking into account music perception, psychology, and mathematics, it develops a new process for the automated transcription of rhythms from musical performances.