Hello, If any of you are in or will be in the New York City area this coming Tuesday, I'm playing an hour-long set at a place called The Stone that will be all about Granular Synthesis / Resynthesis in a performance setting. If you'll be in the area, it will be a cool show to see--everything is written in ChucK. I'm planning on doing a quasi-participatory didactic thing with the audience to teach them about granular synthesis as I demonstrate the instruments I've built, so it's a little non-traditional as far as concert flow. Even if you won't be in the area, you might want to take a look through my (spaghetti) code. As Kassen can tell you, my attempts at doing granular synthesis in ChucK border on obsession and have spent a long time trying to squeeze out as much performance while keeping it as easy to program as possible. For this show, I've built instruments that take their spectral profiles from small audio files that I've run through the Spear program for analysis (http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/). Spear does "Sinusoidal Partial Editing Analysis and Resynthesis" and does a really good job at FFT analysis with transient sharpening and all kinds of other goodies. Spear outputs its information as a text file and I'm using the file IO routines that are currently only in the bleeding-edge CVS version of ChucK to parse these files into reasonably useful datasets. Then I'm using standard HID stuff and a modified gamepad for interaction. It's far from perfect, but it's a playable prototype. I'll have this stuff organized and posted on my website and github by the show date (hopefully). I'd really love to get some feedback on the code for the future. Plus, if anyone is interested in getting a head start parsing Spear files with ChucK, this might be helpful. There's a possibility that I'll document the show, so there might also be video at some point. -Mike "Cloud Seeding" Performing Granular Synthesis Tuesday, Sept. 1st - 8pm @ The Stone - www.thestonenyc.com $10 -- http://michaelclemow.com http://semiotech.org