DJ GLATKO
Zlatko Baracskai
Zlatko Baracskai received elementary education in Sarajevo (BIH), Subotica (YU) and Budapest (H), secondary education in Budapest and the Hague (NL). At young age he developed interest in music, computers and electronics. Interest in electronics was ever supported and guided by his mother, engineer in energetics. He studied drumming from Tibor Nemes and C++ programming from Tamas Beck since the age of twelve. Eventually he became an autodidact exploring the intersection of these fields until the year 2001, when he was admitted to study Astronomy in Budapest and Electronic Music in The Hague. He moved to The Hague where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in 2005. During these 4 years his technical and artistic intentions gained attention support and guidance from Clarence Barlow, Joel Ryan, Paul Berg, Konrad Boehmer, Kees Tazelaar, Johan van Kreij, Peter Pabon and Lex van den Broek. After enjoying adventures in constructing tape music, he turned focus to live sound processing and instruction of musicians. His coming to Birmingham to do a PhD with Scott Wilson and Jonty Harrison opened up perspectives in using recorded sound and forcing acoustical events. Most recently he researches perceptual feature extraction and algorithmic rephrasing.
Symposiums, workshops and lectures
• 22.12.2009 - Digital Music Research Network - London - QMUL - Max 4 Live framework has been presented with the focus on adaptive effects implementations.
• 16.5.2009 – Two Thousand + Nine symposium on performance technologies at SARC Belfast. The paper entitled “Customized Extensions for Instrumentalists” was presented.
• 25.3.2009 – DMU@BEAST – Presentation on automated segment analysis and rephrasing algorithms.
• 28-30.5.2008 – University of Pecs – Workshops and lectures on SuperCollider and sonification techniques.
• 24.6.2006 – Dartington College of Arts - The Extended Shakuhachi. a lecture on sensor interfaces and digital sound processing.
• 2005-2007 – Kisknuhalas – Courses funded by the European Grundtvig/Comenius fund for adult learning in the education sector. The course ran on annual basis and was majorly concerned with education technology, knowledge structuring and transfer.
• 13.5.2004 – Royal Conservatoire in The Hague – Presentation of sound synthersis based on recursive geometrical transformations.
Projects
• 10.4.2009-1.5.2009 – Requested by Birmingham City University and LickWorks. Feasibility study was conducted into the text-to-singing and speech-to-singing synthesis technologies. Resources were identified and path of development was stipulated for an audio processing and concatenation application.
• 20.10.2008-23.10.2008 – Requested by Hello Digital. Real time diffusion software for orchestral performance was developed. Eight input channels are diffused over 56 speakers using 32 faders. This was utilized for the performance of the Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra at the Millenium Point.
• 20.1.2008-14.2.2008 – Requested by BEAST. Customizable software was built to automatically calculate exact positions of multiple speakers in a room. Using three microphones different delay times were established which were used to locate a speaker in space based on emitted impulses. It allows for calibration for different microphone placements and specific environmental factors.
• 2.11.2007-2.3.2008 – Requested by David Hindmarch. Modular software for granulation and spatialization for eight audio channels. Coded in SuperCollider this software without any GUI allows a blind composer to create infinite recursive trees of sound processing modules. It automatically maps all the controls to an interface with 64 knobs that can be queried for identity. The software uses the native OSX speech engine to provide verbal feedback to the user. It also allows for custom microtonal tuning of MIDI keyboards that can be used to trigger processes.
• 20.5.-27.6.2007 – Requested by Open Systems. A special sensor system named ‘Sensordome’ was developed for enabling dancers to control sound synthesis processes. Based on continuous pressure measurements four sensor surfaces were built.
• 1.4.2007-1.5.2007 – Requested by Kitchen Budapest and T-Mobile a SuperCollider application was built for the Mobile Jam project. The software allows advanced loop triggering and manipulation with a set of twelve keys on a mobile phone. Based on depressing duration advanced features could be controlled. Four instruments could be used to create music in real time. Also multiple user mode was available which had a built in time quantization that ensured the players staying in time.
• 5.5.2006-25.5.2006 – Requested by SZTAKI centre for automation and IT. SuperCollider application was built that would recognize vowels of the Hungarian language. Estimations were networked through UDP OSC protocol.
• 25.2.2006 – Making New Waves Festival – Control data processing coming from laser beam interruptions was implemented to control sample playback algorithms.
• 1.10.2005-1.11.2005 – Requested by Sonsoles Alonso. An advanced sample playback and processing application was built to be used with a velocity sensitive keyboard. Various control rate analyses and behavior simulations were implemented.
• 10.3.2005-10.4.2005 – Requested by Ricardo Giraldo. A sensor system for the interactive installation De-fuse was built. It consisted of pressure pads and IR beam interference sensors.
• 18.10.2004-11.11.2005 – Requested by Tag in the Hague. Wireless sensor system for performing dancer was developed that utilized tilt switches and pressure sensors. The sensor dat was used to synthesize electronic sound.
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