April 5 2020.
Xynthi again. I tried notching out the fundamental frequency of a drone patch to observe what happened around it. Mostly hiss, but a few nice things here and there. Not sure it comes through in the recording though.
Lockdown noodling with Continuum and Cheat Codes.
OP-Z track from earlier in the day.
A noisy first attempt with Supercollider.
{MouseY.kr(-1, 1) * Fold.ar(SinOsc.ar(220 - MouseY.kr(0, 100), SinOsc.ar(MouseX.kr(0, 1000))) * MouseX.kr(0, 10), 0, 1)}.play;
A track I made in honour of Penderecki who died at the end of March…
I haven’t managed to record something worthwhile today. But I did end up doing a little experiment I’ve been wanting to do for a long time: timbral imitation. Take a recording of a single note from an instrument, say saxophone, trombone, clarinet, whatever, look at a visuialization of the frequencies, write down all the partials and recreate it using function generators. I wrote down 75 partials, from the fundamental up to 10kHz, from a single saxophone note and tried to recreate it in Pure Data. The result wasn’t terribly interesting. The amplitude for each partial (or group of partials?) need to be adjusted as well for it to be perceived as the original timbre. It would take quite a long time to do with function generators. I did make a little 1 minute function generator sketch of this months ago and it was quite interesting. Probably due to the sinewave that it puts out is impure, so there’s a lot of added overtones that interfere so beautifully at the higher frequency range.
Since I don’t plan on making any more before the lockdown (officially) ends on the 14th of april, I’ve collected all of my daily pieces here:
3+ hours.
It looks like I spend more time for my job dutie than in office. Anyway, 1 hour of composing every day at night shifts.
I tuned my guitar to D,A,A,F#,B,B, which I later realized is an open D6. I was really just tuning it with my ear for good droning. Anyway I improvised these two things, first the chordish stuff then some little embellishments on top. I found it interesting and it was fun to have to just feel it out since I had no idea what I was playing on the fretboard.
Here’s a drone based recording from yesterday.
It’s an E350 morphing terranium being morphed by a skew fade LFO and a linear sine wave VCO.
Passed it through Compass for three separate takes and then combined them.
Thanks to @ansgaria for kickstarting this idea of a piece a day during lock-down… (Love all your pieces by the way, once I realised 60 Danish Krona isn’t actually that much money to pay I got your music off bandcamp…)
I’ve slacked off from posting a piece a day but I am still thinking of these each day… I’m trying to slow down during this lock-down, get my head straight and remember to remember how I am feeling so I can take that into the future… I made this in light… Ghosts, Dusk, Decay’
Thank you, audio obscura. Very much appreciated.
Prolonged quarantine really drains one of energy. Stay safe.
I’m nowhere near musically disciplined enough to make a song a day, but I did just make this little piece on my phone with Fugue Machine and Synth One.
https://youtu.be/-1fh5jm8kI0
I recorded my guitar for the first time in ages, fed it into my computer and played around with the midi notes. Pleased with how this came out… Lots of static and noises, guitar, synths and beats…
My second day with Model:Samples.
A little jam I put together, was thinking about Morton Subotnik when I made it, hence the title…
There is no end in site for the lock-down for the UK and a lot of other places… Sometimes though under lock-down everything seems still and quiet and you feel calm and peace, it doesn’t last long but you can hold it for a while. The track reflects that feeling…
Sketch with three Kaivo loops through DSP.
Two additional Kaivo + Ableton sketches from yesterday.
Edit: 3am and can’t sleep, another Kaivo sketch
Really enjoyed these Colin … Good sounds
