It's about the harmonics and rhythm patterns that come from random variances in me playing D♭ on my guitar over and over again for twelve minutes.

I was going to write software to do complex multihead playback, and add more tracks, but then I did not do that.

D♭

I found some old code from my Music Computing 1 class at Goldsmiths in 2013. The gist of the project was to write code to play midi notes. It was pretty jarring to hear my old stuff, and even more jarring to read my old code. So, I rewrote it in Typescript (as opposed to Processing/Java), and sent the midi out into Ableton Live, where I quantised the resulting notes to a C Phrygian, and ran it through the wavetable synthesizer. A new view on an old algorithm.

Music Computing 1: Revisited

What I submitted as coursework for the Music Computing 1 class at Goldsmiths in 2013 or so.

Music Computing 1

Generate ambient bass doom ensemble.

This isn't that interesting, I revisited a generative technique I've used several times before for generative arrangements using loops, that I think originally came to me from Brian Eno, who was doing analog tape loops. In this case, I recently got a new bass, and realized I hadn't used the new Follow Actions feature in Ableton Live, and wanted to give it a go. I recorded 8 single note bass loops, and didn't pay a lot of attention to their durations. 4 were on a low octave, 4 are the octave above. The upper octave were minor intervals with the lower octave root notes. I split the octaves out onto separate tracks, and then duplicated both tracks like 16 times each. Follow actions select a random other sample per track, so the harmony is entirely generative. The clip durations are not aligned with a grid, so while they start out pretty in sync, they shift into a more random arrangement pretty quickly. There's no reason they'd converge ever (or certainly not within a reasonable amount of time to be listening to the system), and SoundCloud space is scarce, so I've limited this to 5 minutes. I piped all tracks through a parallel set of returns that do things like apply a little distortion, add in some space, some flange, boost the low end, and then on the master bus there's some minor compression and EQ to lower some hum.

I'm pretty pleased with the harmonies that show up, there are some interesting chords. I'm semi-tempted to write code to listen to it for chords and add them in on piano or something spacey. I probably won't figure out how to get pitch detection working though.

GABDE

Chuck - Session(Tue Jun  7 00h06m29 2016)

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that one song

I remember playing this song when I was a kid, but I don't remember what it's called. Help appreciated.

What is this song called?

It occurred to me that lots of people I speak to often have no idea how Irish sounds - so I recorded "cúpla focail" (a couple of words)

Irish

TFW you get bored half way through learning that rhyme about how many days there are in each of the months in primary school so you learn the facts instead of the words and you still haven't bothered to go back and learn the words since.

Months

I used to be a music student in London. Before that I was a musician in Ireland and Oman. Now, I'm a computer programmer in Stockholm.

hughrawlinson

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