anybody else a fan of this guy?
If your tastes run to Xenakis style extreme, inhuman computer music he's worth a look.

Interested in how some of these sounds are synthesized - I reckon some at least are just (just!) cross modulated oscillators etc. on modular synths, but some are clearly digital, and he's mentioned in interviews that in the past he's used direct sonification of chaotic algorithms,

I believe he's used Xenakis' Gendyn and UPIC systems (and if anyone has a source for these I'd be really pleased to hear about it) in the past, but aside from these, can anybody place any of the sounds he's using or make a guess at the algorithms/techniques in question?

i just had a listen to some of his stuff on youtube,
it's very similar to the sound the fluorescent bulb in my kitchen was making yesterday before i changed it for a new one.

Sounds like, if you didn't record it, you missed a trick.

I think it's just whatever... I read a Future Music interview with them a few years ago. I don't think there is a great plan just whatever works. Mess about with hardware, use broken hardware, vinyl noise, scratched vinyl - CD's, edit audio with no care for discontinuities or really thinking about it at all - random, turn amps up to 11 and feedback the circuitry noise , use noise as a mod source, feedback delays with no input just the noise of cheap hardware being multiplied. There was a clear aesthetic of not caring or putting too much effort or forethought in. It had to be destructive and quick - in PD I liked wavetable distortion and modulation to make noisey stuff - drunk to osc~ and FM'd with noise. Maybe make a dirty cheapo granulator and don't worry too much about enveloping or use noise as an envelope.

I was messing about after reading the post and made 2 patches... just for fun.

The first one is an array modulation thing. it takes a minute to get the numbers someplace but you can get mad noises from it. just drawing into the array is cool - creating discontinuities.

I made a cheap granular glitch full of pops and click and random fizz... it's a bit of fun
as well. I can only attach 1 patch per post so I'll make another post.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/arraymod.pd

el crapola granuloma

EDIT: you could also try some databending

upload random files into audacity as raw files and manipulate and save as audio. The cheaper, more mundane the original file the better.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Cheapo_Granular.pd

@audiolemon said:

I think it's just whatever... I read a Future Music interview with them a few years ago. I don't think there is a great plan just whatever works. Mess about with hardware, use broken hardware, vinyl noise, scratched vinyl - CD's, edit audio with no care for discontinuities or really thinking about it at all - random, turn amps up to 11 and feedback the circuitry noise , use noise as a mod source, feedback delays with no input just the noise of cheap hardware being multiplied. There was a clear aesthetic of not caring or putting too much effort or forethought in. It had to be destructive and quick - in PD I liked wavetable distortion and modulation to make noisey stuff - drunk to osc~ and FM'd with noise.

this is highly inaccurate.