this thread has a few tributaries
less concepts, the album and Mac app released 8/28/2018:
as mentioned in { open space } : 01-20-19 _ open house (2pm), I am releasing an album this upcoming Sunday – eep!
‘less concepts’ formed rather quickly (comparatively) and feels like an honest expression of what I’ve learned from lines, through both Sound + Process and the irreplaceable friendships I’ve been lucky to find here.
the album is entirely sequenced with Teletype’s CHAOS.ALG 3, which is the cellular automata operator. having traditional “composition” stuff handled by algorithms helped me take inventory on what parts of my self are fulfilled by art-making – and most importantly, this process helped me tune and center those parts.
as I worked on documenting this approach, I realized that there was a level of inaccessibility baked in – even if others had the same hardware, there wasn’t a very actionable way to expose the value of manipulating cellular automata (CA) growth to crawl scales and provide note timing. so, I spent some time and built a Max patch that encapsulated not only the behavior of the CA but also presented the programming decisions I made to create the pieces in the album.
eventually, this became a way to encourage others to “make this album at home” – this also resonated with my desire to examine + realign those layers of fulfillment I mentioned above.
the resulting software is a standalone app for Mac, also called ‘less concepts’:
the app documentation also serves as liner notes for the album.
both will be released on 10/28. I’ll update this thread to serve as a support / questions corner for the app.
the album will be available as both a digital release + a limited edition tape through Bandcamp.
the tape will feature unreleased tracks and a sticker of the album artwork (incredible work done by suitcasedog).
the software will be released through GitHub, same day. preview the documentation / liner notes here.
(much love to @Jonny, @barnjazz, @shellfritsch, @trickyflemming, @madeofoak + @tehn for their guidance, advice, encouragement, and proofreading these last few months.)
seek, think, discover.
have less concepts.
nested, recorded at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum with a small Serge system and the less concepts app, released 1/13/2019. see here in the thread.
there are a ton of great insights starting here (p much) into DSP + synthesis from alanza, andrew and ezra.
a norns version of less concepts received much of its beta testing through this thread as well. it has been submitted to dust for approval
