Le Nom Des Fleurs https://lndf.fr Personal Blog of Thomas Guillory 251220 https://lndf.fr/Blog.html#251220 https://lndf.fr/Blog.html#251220 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 EST

Made a little js canvas tutorial where you can learn to do some generative doodling step by step. You can go for it with near 0 experience, it's free, with examples that you can reuse and tweak. No lib, no fancy stuff, just pretty patterns. You can find there the code of the last visuals I posted

Some Music:

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New project pages about making algo art in p5.js :

Started my first full time job this year, must say the art making has been slowed down quite a bit. Especially on music as it's a core part of my day job. I'm trying to get back on track now that my everyday life is getting together.

Some Music:

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My parent left a bag of diapositive boxes in my room. Among those was a "Gnome" labeled box. Of course I opened it. Among all of those gnome related pictures, there was an old photo of some of my mom's friends. I layered multiple diapositive and took a photo under the ceiling lamp.
Then I tweaked it on affinity, layering some weird textures I found in the touchdesigner noise generator, which gives this blocky aspect in the bottom right and upper left. Made some dithering magick, remaping the output colors to the original picture palette, last color tweaking in preview as always.

The song comes from the desire to get better at bass and drum, keeping stuff structured, without too much elements, adding little ear candy here and there. Fairly simple stuff, basic ableton synths, distortion / echo / reverb. Some additional sound were made by larsening the mic with the laptop speakers, some with Ableton's grain delay. 

We were in a big city where we know no one
Everybody looking in the same direction
We've always been the loser but we'll win in the long run
Looking for space and found satisfaction

We were in that club downtown
Where the barman dresses like the devil
In this place, every number is a countdown
All we wanted was to silence the symptoms

Some Music:

Some Links:

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The original image is an engraving of st. Thomas made by Lucas van Leyden. I pixel sorted it at a 45 degree angle with this python script, using a blurred version of itself as a reference for the thresholds (which give those weird mossy blocs under his cape).

Command line used :
python3 -m pixelsort -i file -f reference.png -a 45 stthomas.png

The font I used for the ST. in the bottom is named Croisan, it has a very peculiar S

Image palette :
  • 7D2932 - dark red
  • D2D4D9 - light grey
  • 5C5851 - dark grey
  • C5EDE6 - light cyan

On the music side, I just got a push 3, so a lot of MPE slide / glide (thus all the glissandi an timbre modulation). Experimented for a few hours with the material on this track, ended up only keeping the resampling of the synth I played (Meld and Drift) to re-chop them with simpler. A bit of granulator 3 for the transition in the middle. Compressor / EQ / Reverb / a bit of distortion. Very simple project. Always so funny to sing in falsetto voice 

She was more alive than me
She knew of all the sunken cities of the sea
She uses those forgotten words forsaken by my kin
She kept her past in a book made of skin

Ashes held tight in the hollow of her hand
Until the return of the day that offers end
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I reworked pruners to put philodendron's DSP in it. It was not easy fitting everything while keeping it readable and not too ugly, the module ended up quite large, but I like this big beetle look. While I was at it, I rewrote the buffer initialization of hellebore and wilt (that was made really poorly, I actually didn't knew how a class constructor works at the time).

VCV Rack NOI library

I've been taking notes each time I make music lately, making little schematics about how the signal is routed for such and such effect, it's interesting to reflect on all the things you tried during a session. I've learned a lot about granular synthesis, I've been using it at the high level of using big grains to make ambient, whitout taking time to dig deeper. Microsound, wrote by Curtis Roads is a super thorough ressource which contains a lot of infos on various ways of implementing granular synthesis, as well as some more global ideas on the general concept of time scale, and the porosity between rythm and pitch.

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I released an compilation-album thing with most of the tracks in the 2024 page + new things. It should be available on all platform at some point in the near future.

LNDF - HERBIER#2 - BandCamp Link
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Released a new plug-in : Philodendron ! Here you can find the download page, if you are curious you can read more info on the development in this project page.

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Picture Materials :
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bronze Cast of Pope Gregory XV (personal photo)
  • Lorenzo Lotto - Madonna with Child between Sts. Flavian and Onuphrius (crop of mary's red sleeve)
  • 16 Colors Riemersma Dithering

The picture of Lorenzo Lotto's painting I've found online seems to be a scan of a print instead of a photo of the painting itself (you can see a slight pattern, probably CYMK print). I was a bit sad about not founding a sharper picture, but this pattern led to interesting results in the final collage. I found those material when I recently been to an art exhibition about Borghese's collection. Although the man seems so be much despicable, his (inherited) fortune have enable him to develop a distinct taste for art. Been wanting to experiment with png's and non-square compositions. I've hestitated to add a "modern" element in the collage as counterpoint, but the method and tools used are already the counterpoint.
For the sound part, I'm back at trying Ableton's session mode, and it's been really fun. The chopped voice is just me imitating a chopped voice sample in front of the microphone. The staccato choir is my voice. Most of other things is default ableton stuff (Arp 5th sample for the lead synth, 505 kit for the rythm, 808 bass). Ah yes and
DECAPITATOR ~ ON ~ THE ~ MASTER - (a slight touch)

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Picture material :
  • Arnold Böcklin - Die Toteninsel III
  • John Everett - Ophelia
  • A photo of broken Safety glass
  • 32 colors Riemersma Dithering
  • Crank up the saturation in macos's preview
The left panel is a zoom in the sky of Die Toteninsel.
The glass photo is composited in difference, layered upon a semi-opaque Ophelia, leaving a glimpse of Böcklin's painting.

The main bell-ish sound is a sampled metal baking bowl (the kind where you mix the dough in).
The percussion are my nails on my computer, recorded trought said computer microphone. I'm rather fascinated by my nail's noise, as I used to be picking them all the time and just recently stoped for a few months, making them unusually long and noisy. 
J'ai quitté cette île
et son batelier
Il refusait d'embarquer
d'autre bateaux que le sien

J'ai quitté ce batelier
j'ai quitté son île
Il eu été vain
de le convaincre

Pour moi
Il ne fût que ce refut
Pour lui
sa barque fût son seul refuge
Au loin
je ne discerne plus son visage

Un autre a fuit son île
un autre fuira sa barque
Un autre a fuit son île
un autre fuira sa barque

Il attend qu'un jour
la mer l'engloutisse
En sombrant
aura-t-il une pensée 
pour son île
pour sa barque brisée
pour le silence 
qu'il laissera aux palmiers
Inspired by the boatman in The Buried Giant, a Kazuo Ishiguro novel, and by the fictional sailors described by Dominique Scali in Les marins ne savent pas nager, which doesn't seem to be translated in English

Recently I've read seven nights by Borges, and been fascinated by the recurring concept of "instantaneous perception of the essence vs. sequential fragmented perception of the whole".

Some Music: ]]> 241113 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#241113 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#241113 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 EST
Collaboration with Valentine Semadeni, she sent me the collage, I made the music in answer.
Heavily compressed breathing.

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The image comes from comparing a picture with a blurred version of itself. I was mangling with dithering in touch designer, instead of using a noise pattern as the dithering reference, I used smaller version of the image, and at some point, the image itself.

The lyrics are the beginning of the song Tea for Two chanté (entre autre) par Doris Day :
Picture me upon your knee
With tea for two and two for tea
With me for you and you for me
Alone
The piano sample is from And Now the Queen of the Paul Bley Trio.
At the end, you can hear the prototype of a new vst coming soon, its name is Philodendron, it lets you mess with a ringbuffer. Some smiles are flowing around me
Some Music :
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Attempt at a lettering. ]]> 240818 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240818 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240818 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:00:00 EST Added articles about tape history and delay line reverberation. ]]> 240708 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240708 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240708 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 EST
The original texture is a photo of the leaking roof of the parisian underground.
The sound is made with Meld, an Ableton synth, and a fragment of sound I recorded on an 1/4" tape about a year ago. (that I recognized later as being a sample of scooter, a Lolo Zouaï song). Lyrics :
La journée s'est déroulée en plusieurs étapes
Ils ont commencé par un test de Rorschach
Il y avait dans la cour une odeur nauséabonde

I added a Bash Spellbook in the knowledge category

Some Music : ]]> 240612 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240612 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240612 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 EST
The synth at the beginning is a companion to the orca sequencer I'm developing with rust. Altought not finished, Laminaria code source is here, just cargo run to launch it.
The lyrics is an extract from a poem of Goethe.
I don't actually speak german, it's probably gibberish for a native speaker.

German :
Ihr naht euch wieder, schwankende Gestalten,
Die früh sich einst dem trüben Blick gezeigt.
Versuch ich wohl, euch diesmal festzuhalten?
Fühl ich mein Herz noch jenem Wahn geneigt?

English
You approach again, wavering figures,
Who once showed themselves early to the dull gaze.
Will I try to hold on to you this time?
Do I still feel my heart inclined to that delusion?

French
Vous vous approchez de nouveau, figures chancelantes,
qui, jadis, se sont montrés aux regards.
Vais-je essayer de vous retenir cette fois ?
Est-ce que je sens mon cœur pencher encore vers cette illusion ?

Dithering command used on the image :
magick pic.png -resize 500 -ordered-dither o2x2 +level-colors ,DarkOliveGreen3 -colors 4 dither.png
Interesting pattern with the 2x2 dither pattern.
Upper right is a photo of a dried Ginkgo leaf. The background is a sky photo found on the internet.
The text says "I'll be gone for a few days".

Are our languages too rooted in the realities from which they originate to describe new ones?
Are our fictions limited by our discribing tools ?
How can we explain a place with an additional dimention ?
An emotion that doesn't exist ?
Should we craft new languages to describe new worlds ?

Some Music : ]]> 240520 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240520 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240520 Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 EST


The font is redaction, I pixelated a photo of a blue paint stroke for the right side and the upper left.

Some Music : ]]> 240517 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240517 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240517 Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 EST
Tried to use affinity photo to make some kind of collage thingy.

Je l'invite, le désobstru
L'astre allonge un large pas
Et par un reflet, un angle obtu
Il me lèche affectueusement la joue

Some Music :
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Finally began using Orca, here controlling the PolyBrute via CC.
The image is a dithered photo of my notebook, this geometrical form is made by the repetition of a letter ]]> 240314 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240314 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240314 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 EST
I have a fun time rediscovering my launchpad X, the custom layers allow for slider and toggle, It is here mapped on Granular III :
  • A slider on the position
  • A slider on the grain size
  • A toggle on variation (toggle for abrupt changes)
  • A toggle on the record button
I used the microphone of my laptop, singing drone note, and a piano sample. There is three layer, played live, no other effect involved.

The gif comes from playing around this tutorial about how to slice a font.

Some Music : ]]> 240308 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240308 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240308 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 EST
The music is largely inspired by this incredible album by Kali Malone, especially by All life long, a very slow organ piece.
I make use of ableton new synth: Meld, and it's MPE capabilities for note-based pan and pitch automation. I then layered an ambience I took with my phone in a waiting line (streched and FFTed).
The image is an extruded text SOP copied by a grid I streched in a parallelepiped by grouping the higher point and displacing them using the point SOP. I then added a second Geometry COMP that contain the height displaced noise. You can fin out more on height displacement using phong on this blog post.

Other than that, I've been working on my mapping research paper (found a lot of thing), making UI for VSTs and learning Rust for fun, used it to experiment on making a text controlled synth, learned a bunch of things on thread safety, data concurrency, mutex and channels.

Some Music : ]]> 240131 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240131 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240131 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 EST Made a weird instrumental from an old jazz sample, sprinkled strange text over it : Tried some font displacement, the texture used for displacement is a ramp (100 periods) added to low resolution and high contrast noise (10x10), the font is Brogetta regular
The deformation is inspired by This PPPANIK tutorial
Made some hydra patches you can find in a newly created Hydra sketches page.
I decided to put all the rendering in one page to save on some loading time in the blog pages. Made some hydra patches you can find in a newly created Hydra sketches page.
I decided to put all the rendering in one page to save on some loading time in the blog pages.

I tried to make music with only ableton looper and a guitar, It was suprisingly hard, I'm so used to guitar being put through thousands of effects that dry guitar seems quite underwhelming.
Had fun and managed to do some funny loops after a few experimentations.
The funny gong like sound comes from the switch being toggled while I hold a chord, it exite the resonance of the guitar, I quite like this discovery. Some Music : ]]> 240123 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240123 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240123 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 EST Used Ableton Looper and learned how to turn an image into particles thanks to this video from PPPANIC
that I summed in the TouchDesigner Knowledge page.
You can download the project here.
Surprisingly, exporting a gif and compressing it is not that easy (the image below is 6mb, the grainyness doesn't help though).
I'd love to make video clips to post here but it would be way to large for my selfconscious use of others bandwidth...
Could gif clips be an adequate answer ?
Some Music : ]]> 240122 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240122 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240122 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 EST I made a component emulating data-moshing by combining multiple tutorials and adding my own ideas, it's not a very good "data-moshing" effect, but it's a nice effect nonetheless.
Tutorials used : Download .tox here

This is a merge of a sea and a waterfall with it (mind there is added jpeg compression).
Using SVG textPath to put text around any curve you want Source for the code
I used this website to generate the SVG path

Unrelated : found a website to make ascii schematics it is called TexTik.

Some Music :
]]> 240117 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240117 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240117 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 EST Having a quite effervecent brain these time.
Some of it take roots in my current reading :
  • Presets - Digital Shortcuts to Sound by Stefan Goldmann~ A book about composing sounds in those time of digital efficiency, touching on the question of norm and possibility in the creative realm.
  • Anathem by Neal Stephenson
    • which is a good speculative fiction and develop a lot of playful methaphysical ideas. In a kind of Borgesian way, seeking an new way of seeing what has always been here.
Some ideas in a chaotic space -

Does asynchronicity in dialog, by adding to the time dedicated to reflection, add to the quality the ideas ?
Or the other way around, the quick exchange of ideas allow for a more thorough exploration of possibilities (including impasses, which can be as valuable)?
Will mass usage of cloud storage lead to a potential monumental loss of data ?
Only the people having archived data on local drive perduring in history.

I should try to map velocity to the delay time.

How to explore the narrative potential of using tools.




The eternal fight between horizontality and verticality, in all possible meanings and contexts.



The more I think about complex, large scale systems, the more I realize “goals” are a very unimportant feature of their behavioral profile.
From RibbonFarm
Does this also apply to human being, which are good exemples of complex systems ?

Some Music : ]]> 240109 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240109 https://lndf.fr/2024-logs.html#240109 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:00:00 EST The skeuomorphism is often shown as a bad exemple of UX, some people tend to become angry.
But what about the inherent underlying concept of interacting with knobs and slider ? Is is a technical skeumorphism ? Much of was as been done is a kind of emulation. might as well go all the way.
But the knob seems nonetheless to be a good info/space ratio, in a glance you can have max / min / actual value.
And they are quite handy when you need to group functionality. Things that may allow for this mere information. If you know what are the max and min of the viz, can you guess the value?

Variable font as a potentiometre.
Changed the font of my IDE to Recursive, a variable multi-axis font.

.on the question of the relation of the artist to his tool, This article about no-input mixing is really interestinG
curieusement Je Retombe Sur Exactement Les Concepts Que J'Utilise Pour Réfléchir.




Je recherche des Alternatives





I was thinking maybe writing
straight is lame

I wanna be the cool kid with the artsy website





Je viens de découvrir que le mot aternative (in french) is about duality and binary decision, whereas, en anglais, son acception se penche sur l'ensemble de ce qui aurait pu être possible.

Some Modification on the website : I added a RSS feed (and a short knowledge page about it) and changed the main font to Redaction

Some Music : ]]>