{"id":2353,"date":"2011-10-19T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T01:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2011-10-19T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T01:52:18","slug":"spongefork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/spongefork\/","title":{"rendered":"Spongefork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2403\" title=\"spongefork\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/spongefork.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>There are lots of under-the-radar software toys out there for mangling audio, but one that I have yet to hear anyone really discuss much is <a href=\"http:\/\/spongefork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spongefork<\/a>, created by <a href=\"http:\/\/are-f.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Francesconi<\/a> over a decade ago. It&#8217;s been around for a long time, and is intended as a live improvisation instrument. Its incredibly sparse <a href=\"http:\/\/spongefork.com\/support\/tutorials\/index.php?t=kibke1\" target=\"_blank\">interface<\/a> belies a lot of sonic mangling possibilities, with multiple sample banks and a live-control XY controller. For $65, it&#8217;s a fun toy. (Even the demo fully works, just without the ability to save work.) Heck, I&#8217;ve used it so long that I upgraded when I made the move from Mac OS 9 to OS X!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a set of live tweaks to some sheet metal hits (recorded when we had a custom heat shield fabricated for our wood stove). In my library, when I see &#8220;forked&#8221; in a filename, I know it&#8217;s gonna get weird&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/25411488&#8243; params=&#8221;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=ee0000&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of under-the-radar software toys out there for mangling audio, but one that I have yet to hear anyone really discuss much is Spongefork, created by Ryan Francesconi over a decade ago. It&#8217;s been around for a long time, and is intended as a live improvisation instrument. Its incredibly sparse interface belies a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}