An experiment with contact microphones. Minimal post-processing.

Gestalt Machine (Field Recording)

Three nested loops. https://genuary2021.github.io/

outer = ['T', 'R', 'I', 'P', 'L', 'E'];
middle = ['N', 'E', 'S', 'T', 'E', 'D'];
inner = ['L', 'O', 'O', 'P'];

outer.size.do({
        i = a.next;
        middle.size.do({
            j = b.next;
            inner.size.do({
                k = c.next;

Genuary 01: Triple Nested Loop

The generative acoustic piece from Day 7 is used to excite a 31TET array of harmonic oscillators, which, through the magic of 5th order ambisonics and binaural sound (use headphones), drift in circles around you like mellow ghosts.

Genuary 16: Circles

A simple crab canon à la Jo Bach, played with randomised timbres per note to give an electronic 'klangfarbenmelodie' of sorts. One voice uses modal synthesis, which never quite hits the right pitch. Alongside the wonky generative drums, this gives the tune a turgid and confused feel.

Reaper for MIDI, VCV Rack for synthesis.

Genuary 17: KlangfarbenKrabbe

A little rainy-day ambience created using no loops, for Genuary Day 20. Five notes are sinusoidally modulated in and out, with modulation periods that start in phase and return back to phase. A concept i've been meaning to explore for a while, drenched in reverb.

Genuary 20: Linear

One grows, another cuts. Nodes on a Tonnetz are activated stochastically according to a set of rules, and decay at rates tuned in order to walk the harmony around the Tonnetz in a pleasing way. Higher up the Tonnetz, the tones produced become increasingly erratic. Produced in Supercollider.

Genuary 18-19: One Grows, Another Cuts

Strange jangles for Genuary Day 21. The prompt was:
function f(x) { 
    DRAW(x); 
    f(1 * x / 4); 
    f(2 * x / 4); 
    f(3 * x / 4); 
}

Made using a sample from Pianobook, by Conner Sawchuk: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/vintage-alto-metallophone/

Genuary 21: Function

A simple sound-collage/drone, made using granular synthesis, harmonic resonators, and field recordings, including trains and bees.

Genuary 22: Wrong Line

A minimal, meditative piece using a generative rhythm grammar adapted from that presented in https://teropa.info/loop/#/title, and physical modelling string.

Genuary 24: Five Hundred Lines

Permutations of microsound pitch and duration, accompanied by nonlinear resonators, cascading decay, and a sample from Edwin A. Abbott's excellent 'Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions'. Sample from Librivox, a true boon to humanity, linked below.

https://librivox.org/flatland-a-romance-of-many-dimensions-by-edwin-abbott-abbott/

Genuary 25-26: Permutations on a 2D Grid

Euclidian rhythms of field recordings through filter banks, and small-integer-ratio synthetic melodies, make this little resolute tune. The sun will shine again.

Gen 27-28: The Gradient Sound

An extension of Genuary 29-30. Five non-interacting flocks, each modelled by an implementation of the 'boids' algorithm, build their synthetic drone into an anxious, unsettling cadence.

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