Tag: sound

For Disquiet Junto 601, I threw a die in my bathtub and recorded the throws with an AT822 stereo microphone (through a Zoom H5) that I bought (used) years ago but had never used (I’m not really much of a microphone person). Then, using Csound, I placed copies of each recording across about 3.5 minutes, with various densities, filtering, playback speeds and amplitudes. The rolls determined for how much of the piece each recording appears: the rolls were 3,5,6,5,6,3, so the 6 rolls appear throughout, the 5’s appear up to 5/6 of the piece and the 3’s cut off at the half-way point.

More info on Disquiet Junto 601: Disquiet Junto 0601

Trying a new approach to using recursion for composing. Here, each sound event triggers up to two additional sound events, each a function of the triggering event.

I picked up a Zoom H2 real cheap recently and am having fun trying it out.

On my rainy 10 km walk with umbrella: link

Shortish recording inside Seattle Pinball Museum, close to a nicely bell-heavy machine: link

Longish recording of the ambience inside Seattle Pinball Museum: link

My first track for RPM2023 is now on Soundcloud.

My new EP, This is where we live and I am standing on the porch, is now available. No sine waves, no clipping: I like how this one came out.

On Bandcamp, too:

February means RPM Challenge!

Two tracks finished so far, both using Csound.

I've enjoyed sound baths at a local yoga studio a number of times before the pandemic. I thought to try to create a similar kind of audio experience. This is a first stab.

I read Victor Lazzarini's excellent new book, Spectral Sound Design, recently and was inspired to try some recursion in Csound. This is the result of some quite simple Csound code that causes a single sound event to generate two more sound events, etc., with various limiters to prevent a runaway situation. I like it enough to try more, for sure.

I've wanted to do this for at least 30 years.

Recorded a bit of guitar, and recorded a finger snap in a stairwell I frequent. Then I convolved them together to give pseudo-reverb to the guitar.

Very easy to do in Csound.

A friend posted a picture of their cat, showing its belly as it lay spread across a threshold and suggested that it looked like an audio waveform and essentially dared someone to create such an audio waveform. So I did.

The sound is essentially arbitrary, but it was a fun little challenge to figure a smooth way to make a sound with a waveform that matched (closely) a given image. The length is totally arbitrary, but I figured 35 seconds was plenty.