Modulations
Articles, dispatches, and journal posts from Franck Martin. Subscribe to get new posts by email.
The Writing Shelf is full again!
The Writings shelf is full again — older essays sit next to a big wave of pieces that used to live only on Patreon and LinkedIn. Here’s a guided tour by topic.
How I made the AI music video for 2026
The music track 2026 was composed a while back, but as I was experimenting with AI to make illustrations for Instagram, I saw I could make a music video using AI. This is how I did it!
[un]prompted II
I attended [un]prompted II last week. I did not attend all the sessions, but here are the quick summaries I made.
November 12, 2026 at CCRMA, Stanford
What does an album sound like when the room itself becomes an instrument? For one evening, CCRMA's ambisonic stage room is reconfigured as a Dolby Atmos playback environment, inviting you inside two albums the way their creators heard them, as three-dimensional worlds of sound.
Out Of Space Vibration in Eclipsa Audio
How to take a Dolby Atmos audio master to an Eclipsa audio mix to release an immersive audio video on YouTube.
O.O.S.V (Out Of Space Vibration)
On October 16, Joachim Garraud (French producer and DJ, Grammy-nominated, known for his work with David Guetta and Jean-Michel Jarre) and I release "Out Of Space Vibration" — a 7-minute deep dive into old-school techno, recorded at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum near Los Angeles, on real analog synths and vintage machines. No frills, no plugins: just the vibration of oscillators, rolling sequences, and an analog warmth that can't be faked. A tribute to yesterday's clubs, made for tomorrow's.
Pigs, Packets & the Pacific
This article is built on the PIGNet email archive: 6,697 messages posted between May 1998 and November 2012 by the people who built the Internet across the Pacific Islands. I lived that story at SOPAC in Fiji, as a founder and Vice-Chair of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC), and later on the Internet Society's Board of Trustees. Here is how it looked from the inside.
Dispatch 20260919 - Ravage
I stumbled upon a list of science fiction books written by French authors. Everyone knows the books of Jules Verne, but a book I enjoyed reading was Ravage by Barjavel.
Dispatch 20260913 - CIANI ORKEST
This week I went to Meyer Sound in Berkeley to watch CIANI ORKEST.
Dispatch 20260907 - Captain Planet
I just found this recent documentary about Jacques Yves Cousteau, Captain Planet!
Dispatch 20260903 - Galaxy Electric
Mosaic was played on Galaxy Electric show. They had some nice words about it.
Dispatch of 20260829
An update on the implementation of the mailing list software on my own site.
Hello World!
Announcing to mailing subscribers of the new mailing software now hosted on peachymango
IPv6 in the Enterprise: Lessons from the Trenches
This post is not about music, sorry about this, yes I know,, I'm all over the place, but humans are not simple creatures.
ReMixing for Immersive Audio
Spinner is from my first album “Binary Trees,” which was me getting bored on trips and using Garage Band to create fun loops.
How Vibe Coding My Site Boosted SEO, Security, and Music Plays (And What I Learned Along the Way)
In a previous post, I spoke how I have used Tiki.org for so many years for so many projects.
Some Progress on Apple Music, but why?
Over the last few weeks, the number of listeners on Apple Music is slowly growing.
Resident Electronic Monthly
Resident Electronic Monthly is a Bay Area open mic dedicated to live electronic music.
Sonic Zen Spheres on Apple Store!
No reported crash or issues during the TestFlight phase (this is a non negative statement).
Sound, Space, Time
Spatial Audio or Immersive Audio is gainning popularity, thanks to the processing capabilities of computers, phones, game consoles.