SOUND-FARM Volume One. 

Synthfarm presents an exclusive and free sound-library, produced by the curators of the residency. This collection of sounds, cheekily titled 'Sound-Farm' is made of original residency sounds and content. Synthfarm press-note states "We grateful to visiting participants, students and faculty who have contributed to this big archive of original sounds. Recording sessions, be they formal or informal are a great source of sounds for composers :  we will be releasing all the sounds edited and archived as a series through 2018 and 19" Volume One of Sound-Farm includes micro, short and long samples plus certain hybrid combined sounds, modular noise, FM-drums and ambient passages. Divided into three sections, the sound-library is loaded with speculative, surprising and contrasting content. A wide range of synthesizers used in the making of this catalog :  including the Korg MS20, Intellijel, Make-Noise, Mutable Instruments, Doepfer, ARP 2600, Elektron Analog, MFB Devices, Lyra-Synth, Roland SH101, Waldorf etc etc. Not so friendly for 'preset-lovers' the esoteric and unique sounds represent the current sonic spectrum of synthesis in India : The sound library is the effort of 20+ emerging artists, newbies as well as the curators : Recorded, archived and packaged by Synthfarm. DOWNLOAD HERE [356MB] Library.


Varun Desai [5Volts] explains "Having archived approximately 160+ hours of prepared synthesis, performance, tweaking. modulations as wave recordings created the possibility for a series of sound-libraries. Previously Synthfarm audio samples were featured in the Ninja Tune App titled NinjaJamm thanks to ColdCut visiting our residency in March 2018" Audio Pervert, based in Spain states "there are many hard vendors of sampled sounds and beats, yet most of their factory made products are exorbitant for most emerging artists and newbie producers. We think sounds, especially abstract tones and beats should be public access, for all composers and musicians" Modular artist Da-Saz explains his efforts as "with crazier sounds and beats the user is pushed to imagine, as compared to generic conventional plug-me-samples which are for everyday production. Modular synths, whacky sounds and noise can be a great source of sound-design for artist who usually don't use or have such instruments"

DOWNLOAD SOUND-FARM Volume One

The Sound Bank is a free download under Creative Commons Share Alike Ideology. Various folders contain selections of long and short duration sounds in WAV/AIFF Format 48khz - 24bit -Mono/Stereo. The curators message to you "We hope the sounds inspire you : happy to hear your feedback : http://synthfarm.in/contact/ "



Update November 2020 - Sound-Farm Library has been downloaded +10K !

Filmed in Zurich via Freiburg, a new video Montage for Computer Vision. 
Video edit by FWD [Famous When Dead] Music - Audio Pervert.
Lo-fi Motion capture & light simulation. 
Release date- 20th December.

DOWNLOAD ∇ HERE
https://www.mediafire.com/?8ivzgxtvedai7by

Sample Tank contains +2800 Sounds. Created for Producers, Sound Designers & Musicians for royalty and credit-free use in music, sound creation or related fields.
 Hi Resolution [24/48/44] # Analog Bass. Analog Kicks. Vintage Artefacts. Modular & Abstract Tones. Orchestral Stacks. + Original EMU 1998 Catalogue.▷ Copyleft media. DataSize#700MB :ZIP_Format. All sounds have been sampled, edited & compiled by Audio Pervert. 2015ˈɑːtɪfakt. Valencia ESP.

More such DIY Controllers at - http://www.synthtopia.com/

2012 - We have initiated a collective of sound enthusiasts, synthesizer freaks and digital media artists to combine their artistic expressions and skills - All online and as a real-time experience ! The live juxtaposition of  abstract sound, beats, noise, words & symbols creates a uncharted space. Further when thrown into cyberspace,  from a remote location these very inputs ( audio / projection and  video ) take on a narrative and performance for viewers online, across the world. All made possible inside an 50 square feet home studio, streaming the various inputs combined, into the Live Room server.

Though at a nascent stage, this particular venture stands as a most unique DIY series of events outside regular venues and nightclubs in India. We hope to upgrade, expand and fine tune the streaming and performance of these events to a more contextual and perhaps cinematic experience. Please  contact us  right away in case you would like to contribute on an artistic and or technical level. 

CURRENT MEMBERS :
VINNY BHAGAT / SAMRAT B / ASHHAR F / LIONEL DENTAN /

Time-check -  february 2011 ( and dem prophetic systems hark that the world is coming to an end ? nevermind ) - flash back @ 96' when my parents gifted me a Korg 364 Synthesizer Workstation. My first foray into a world where musical instruments were simply number crunching systems. Since then, sound, technology, tastes, forms, genres and my own ears and understanding has changed. It has been a roller coster ride as a musician and sound sculptor, traversing and absorbing the upheavals and trends of the global audio-canvas - far and wide in latitudes and fidelity ! Sound is an invisible medium, and creates amorphous and androgynous stimulus in our consciousness. Pitch is a mathematical set of intervals alongside words, lyrics and the human voice riding this imaginary space created by beats, which gives birth to music. Yet the quantified value of music remains only in your mind and in your conscious memory - and not for a dog or an ant or the song bird on a tree - Does an elephant prefer a D note to a C note ? Does the cat prefer a Waltz beat to a 2-step ?  Well, ok parrots can mimic. Yet then, is a whale song  about  music as much as the resonant frequency manipulations of bird calls ...

Sound is like taste, or so i have come to realize in the last 15 years. Just like a taste in your mouth can trigger a memory - a song, a tune, a groove or even a second long sample can conjure similar experiences and feelings . Music can be psychosomatic ... An odyssey of sorts, all inside your mind, traversing many cultures, history and social paradigms - via sound - via songs, music eventually turns into a medium itself -  a stereoscope audio highway - music and sounds within the source become the facilitators of thoughts and ideas to happen and take a place in one's consciousness. Lady Gaga or Beethoven or  ocean waves or bat chirps, you will alway and only perceive the music and  sound, inside your head - in your own peculiar understanding. And hopefully even if your peers are tone deaf ~

Trekking on - into the endless canvas of frequency, synthesis and imaginary sonic objects in a virtual and dynamic binary universe - the space that does not exist in a real sense, i have come to realize a growing notion - the idea of music being a human construct fades into a emerging view that everything audible or sonic in this universe is just eventually a collection of frequencies. Music is an intellectual process, which involves the manipulation of  frequencies divided over a time span. Sound is vibration and that it encompasses everything we hear and also what we don't ..  

Yet, all the cultural and psychological alliterations aside, music is a combination of balanced frequencies and calculated spaces inside an imaginary space - Nature, Noise, Electronic and all other aural systems and auditory expanses remain free, unbalanced, changing inside a sphere of constant vibration. Why don't we perceive that as music or even understand the music of the universe ?? Oh wait here comes Music Concrete by Pierre Schaffer.