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This is entirely cool…

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(Special thanks to CDM and WiretotheEar)

This is just a very quick post as I am rather pressed for time this morning. This came to my attention via Peter Kirn’s excellent site Create Digital Motion. I think Peter hits it bang on in his opening paragraph:

Perhaps it’s the church setting for the installation, or the strains of 17th-Century choral composition by Allegri. But Streetwise Opera’s My Secret Heart, binding together reactive visuals and post-Minimalist musical strains, has the feeling of a 21st Century passion play, a digital devotional piece.

Here is an excerpt. (The small size does not do it justice. You might want to go directly to Vimeo to check it out.)

I strongly encourage you to check out Peter’s site for more details then head over to Streetwise Opera’s site for even more info.

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Details on and links on My Secret Heart at CDM are available here.

CDM featured a mention of Sonic Charge’s new generative softsynth Synplant. It has a very different sort of interface:

This will take some getting used to....

Peter Kirn over at CDM has been working with it and says the sound demos on the site “don’t do the product justice.” They do sound a mite “conventional” to my ears given the promise of the approach, but choosing sound demos for a product is tricky business…you don’t want to be too far out yet you want to give a feeling for the possibilities within the product.

There is a 3 week demo available from Sonic Charge’s site. The demo policy is pretty cool:

“For evaluation purposes you are allowed to try Synplant for up to three weeks with full functionality. The trial begins the first time you open Synplant in your host sequencer. Synplant then only subtracts weeks from the trial time when you actually use it.“

I am interpreting that last sentence to mean that you get 3 weeks of time using the plug-in as opposed to just three weeks of time from first launch. That is fairly cool (and very generous) if I am interpreting it correctly. I wish more developers would give you a certain amount of time of use of the plugin as opposed to a “clock” that runs continuously.