Just downloaded and plan to listen soon! Thanks so much @jasonw22 and @papernoise for everything you did!
I imagined this prompt would pull for longer a form, but the more I worked on it, the more compact the piece got. In the end I’m satisfied with it, especially musically, but getting it to work within the idea of punctuated equilibrium was much harder than I anticipated.
The idea of PE is expressed here through multiple transitions marked by punctuations, one probably very obvious, another less so, and a handful of small ones. It was more serendipitous than purposeful, but most all the transitions tend toward increasing organization, which felt appropriate, as this is how I think of the definition of life (i.e., as the opposite of entropy).
Nearly all of the sounds were products of combining samples in different ways:
- I convolved (using Mammut) the following:
- I filtered and mixed (using Iris 2 – at @jasonw22’s suggestion, thanks!) the following:
Of the three samples I used directly, two were chopped up in Live’s Simpler (@jasonw22’s flute ensemble and @SYS2064’s first equilibrium); the third (@_mark’s second equilibrium) was just a small ~15 second fade-in-and-out, as I had already used the entire sample in the above convolution.
I experimented with using Max to FM some samples together, but none of the results were satisfying. Everything ended up being done in Live, its native effects, some M4L plug-ins, and Valhalla Vintage Verb, with a final normalization in Audacity.
