Sharon Yang Looking Outwards 11 Computational Music Composition

The algorithmic musical project that I would like to discuss is Apparatum. Apparatum, has been created by a solo exhibition, panGenerator. With its digital interface that generates electroacoustic sounds, the device emits purely analogue sounds. The project has been inspired musically and graphically by the “Symphony – electronic music” by Boguslaw Schaeffer. Just as Schaeffer did, the apparatus makes use of the visual language of symbols that convey the audio cues. The electroacoustic generators and filters were arranged inside two steel frames, and the two types of magnetic tape samplers are used in order to base off and create basic tones. The apparatus relies on the analog way of generating sound of spinning discs with graphical patterns on them. I admire this project because it is able to make analog sounds from a purely electronic means of creating sounds. In the era where we are constantly exposed to electronic sounds, it shows that an apparatus can be used to bring back the analog sounds. Also, its relatively simple algorithm is used in this ingenious project.

APPARATUM – the installation inspired by the Polish Radio Experimental Studio from ◥ panGenerator on Vimeo.

Video Clip of the operation of Apparatum

Source: https://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/apparatum-installation-inspired-by-the-polish-radio-experimental-studio/