If you've read this far you might as well also check out Marcel's keymap records gallery of avant garde rarities. Contains 8 CD audio tracks by Marcel under his electronic beat music alias Signplant, and a data track with the registered Windows verion and Mac versions of Soundplant, plus sample files and bonus mp3s. Signplant: than from any other source Enhanced-CD self-released (2003)- CD-R limited to 300 homemade hand-numbered copies, with each cover printed over a unique piece of Soundplant source code. Hoichi The Earless: S/T CD self-released (2008)- Group's debut CD-R featuring Marcel Blum on turntable+computer and Jerrold Kavanagh on drum set. Keymap files are essentially a giant bracketed comma-delineated list of data containing within it 1 bracketed list of properties for each keyboard key. Featuring Marcel Blum on turntable+computer, Jerrold Kavanagh on drum set, and guest Jesse Blum (Twenty One Pilots, MisterWives, Outernational) on trumpet+cornet+flugelhorn.Ĭd edition sold out but now available as a free download Hoichi The Earless: Fields 1-6 CD self-released (2009)- Numbered limited edition of 50 printed CD-Rs by Marcel's electroacoustic improv group. Marcel's music, sometimes released under the alias 'Signplant', incorporates turntables, field recordings, obsolesced appliances, and realtime DSP, drawing influences from early tape music, contemporary classical, bebop and free jazz, hip-hop, and IDM. And as proprietor of keymap records, he sells vintage vinyl rarities of early electronic and avant garde music and makes his collecting expertise available for curatorial and consulting services.Ĭontact Marcel (email soundplant or on Twitter) for inquiries about software, music, or sound design projects, including customizing Soundplant for your needs.Īs an improvising experimental turntablist and computer musician, Marcel has released experimental electronic music on the Tom Furgas Editions, Perhaps Transparent, Free103Point9, and Maz Sound Tools labels as well as in self-produced limited editions, and has performed at various New York City new music venues in solo shows and as turntablist of the groups Hoichi The Earless and Izzi Ramkissoon's Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble. As a turntablist and electronic musician, he has performed in several groups. Now you can use it in game (make sure background input is on, option on the Soundplant screen at the top, a check box. As a freelance software developer, he creates web applications, educational software, and custom realtime digital audio and video programs, mainly in JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Electron, Node.js, PHP, Perl, and Lingo/Adobe Director. As a turntablist and electronic musician, he has performed in several groups. Open the soundplant keymap file that you downloaded into the folder along with the audio files. Marcel is a coder, consultant, musician, and vinyl archaeologist based in New York. Now the simple business of firing audio files from a set of keys is not quite as simple as it looks. About Marcel Blum, author of Soundplant About Marcel Blum The idea is that your computer keyboard (PC and Mac versions available) is a ready made interface and Soundplant allows you to load up a keymap with audio files on your computer and then fire them.
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