#41

Track based on breathing as a central rhythm. Breathing was recorded into Supercollider and processed using a bandpass filter tuned to scale giving a marimba-like sound (alveoli, a play on “alveolar” bodies). Result was taken into Ableton Live to add strings.

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#42

Side note. This kinda reminds me of this… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_from_The_Body

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#43


Took the breath recording and used the amplitude readings to map the rate of generation of random blips in SuperCollider (like a side-chain essentially). Took three separate results from this and mixed in Logic with the original recording (breath sounds preserved only as the ‘wet only’ part of a reverse delay effect – I didn’t want to do any kind of ASMR thing :slight_smile: )

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#44

My mom is currently going through treatment for lung cancer, and while I’m here visiting her I’ve started going on very brief runs with my dog each morning. I’ve noticed my breath often fits a pattern that shifts between 5-7 footstep beats. My dog’s does a whole other swung 8th note type thing that I don’t really have a handle on yet. Anyway, I made a recording, avoided getting hit by any cars, transcribed my breaths and footsteps to MIDI, and fed that into a modular patch featuring (among many other things) Cold Mac’s Location circuit being fed positive voltages for inhalation and negative ones for exhalation, modulating Plaits’ (really Knit’s) vocal mode.

In the process I learned more than I ever expected to know about Reaper’s tempo envelope feature, as well as how to set different timebases on a per-item basis, all of which is pretty cool and also enormously baffling and frustrating at first; and got a lot of use out of a multitap delay firmware for Clouds that I’ve been working on.

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