Track Notes:
I used a random number generator to pick two tweets at random, and got the following:
- an instrument made out of knitting instructions and array of bug zappers
- an instrument made out of fishing line and a modified See 'N Say
I collected a few short samples of bug zappers, a See 'N Say, and recorded short strumming patterns on a fishing line strung over a board between two nails. The samples were loaded into a Radio Music eurorack module.
I converted the first knitting pattern I found on google images (called ‘Flying Geese’ - there is a link on my soundcloud) to gates and control voltage - I used an arbitrary method to do so: knit = gate, purl = no gate and since the pattern at the bottom right of the image had a sort of ‘bar chart’ look I split it down the middle and converted these to 24 steps of control voltage (one box = 10v/6 = 1.66v, two boxes = 3.33v, etc). I then programmed the gates and control voltage into a sequencer to trigger the samples and modulate the station and start parameters of radio music to create a granular loop for each sample source. The gates and control voltages were also used to modulate the parameters of mutable instruments clouds and chronoblob 2 delay. I had added a simple four step sequence to form a leading melody for the strummed fishing line and I played with attenuation of the control voltage until I was happy with the results. Each loop was recorded to cassette and a simple arrangement of the loops made in ableton. The exported stereo track was once again passed through clouds and chronoblob for further granulation, this time with the modulated parameters augmented live by me, before being recorded to cassette.
