Name: MAX MSP Looping Patch Test by Isabelle Rose
Duration: 3 min 17 s
Description: This was a test of a patch I made on MAX MSP that used overtones and harmonic accompaniment, a generative drum machine, and live vocal looping.

After weeks of cool and rainy weather, sunshine and mild temperatures have marked this past week, sending me outdoors to assess my back garden and bemoan the explosion of wild grasses sneaking up from the earth, threatening to overtake the flower beds.

It is on days like these of sun and breeze that I like to sit among the overgrown scrub that lines the grassy lawn, and contemplate if it is time to search for the gardening gloves and pull up the weeds. But after many a day of dirt-covered knees and aching backs, I have come to the realisation that I cannot overpower what nature so stubbornly returns to me.

It is this idea that ‘in the cool light of day’ imagines. By centring on simple ideas, noise from the external world vanishes so the smallest details can take focus. Calming, quiet, slow, meditative, we should take time to consider the unimportant fleeting moments – like the weeds in my garden. Maybe I can let my garden return to nature every once in a while.

in the cool light of day

This piece is for string quintet, flute, trumpet, vibraphone and timpani.

Mirage (live recording)

Made in Ableton to explore its uses and possibilities, this piece was inspired by our solar system, with our sun being the centre of it all.

sun swallowing

For voice, flute, cello and tape (sine waves). Recording from a live performance.

Home (live recording)

This was a test of a patch I made on MAX MSP that used overtones and harmonic accompaniment, a generative drum machine, and live vocal looping.

MAX MSP Looping Patch Test

Wind, Colour, Cloud, Sky is a work made up of two movements (I. Golden Light, II. Silver Pools) for string quartet. I wanted to be able to capture the beauty and duality of nature, of light, and the way we see and interact with the world. Both movements capture a different aspect of this, and in the future, I would love to add to this collection. The work can be performed in full, or as individual pieces

Wind, Colour, Cloud, Sky (midi version)

Another track created on Ableton, this was to explore how live recordings can be used to create a track.

Talkback

This is a piece for SATB choir, and will hopefully be recorded in the future!

Mother Sea (midi version)

Just a quick recording of a generative drum machine I made using samples on MAX MSP

MAX MSP Looping Patch Test

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