Artist: Frank Barknecht

Atsuke by Frank Barknecht

Sing with Atsuke. Swing with Atsuke. Whistle with Atsuke. This is a little scene I was working on when learning Japanese characters (Hiragana) for the Tokyo sprint. It's called "A ...

Weizen by Frank Barknecht

listen to the grains of wheat Shake the phonepod to change the settings. Cover: Wheat, Pennsylvania Collier, John, 1913- photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1943 July - Public Domain

Moogarina by Frank Barknecht

Play a synth with your iThing. Change the pitch with your fingers on the four reddish buttons. We are using Ocarina fingerings, just like in that other software you already ...

Urmawi by Frank Barknecht

There is a little string inside Urmawi. Try to make it vibrate. Put the iThing into your back trouser pocket and start belly dancing.

Gridwalker by Frank Barknecht

Gridwalker is an algorithmic composition whose parameters are influenced by changes in the environment soundscape. This scene uses sound input. Try it when your environment is quiet and change it ...

Frank Barknecht

Frank Barknecht is a writer, software developer and sound/code artist living in Cologne, Germany. His favorite weapon of mass creation is Pure Data. He has been involved in the "Pd scene" since around 2001, where he is supporting new users through the Pd mailing lists and helps maintain the central code repository. He wrote a handful of Pd objects like the popular fluid~ soundfont synthesizer for Pd, but most of the time he concentrates on developing libraries of Pd patches, so called abstractions. These include the preset handler SSSAD, the [list]-abs, a port of Karlheinz Essl's Realtime Composition Library for Max/MSP to Pd and more.

Frank is also a member of the RjDj team and one of the maintainers of the rj-library of abstractions. His private site is http://footils.org