189 Dub

Further experiments with RYK Vector Wave

Image - nighttime view from my front porch... with some help from PaintShopPro ;>

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Into the Light

Ritual

An ambient psychological landscape depicting the turning of dark thoughts into more hopeful ones. 

Based on extensive exploration of the RYK Vector Wave, a polyphonic synth that allows morphing between banks of 4 oscillators.

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Into The Light

Wow, talk about a serendipitous collaboration! I met Lucas at a local hangout during the last of the Quinn's experimental night series. Had a fascinating discussion about music and checked his blog next day. I found his unaccompanied track and instantly loved it - soulful, plaintive, an extraordinary "musical apology" that expressed far more than words could say. I hope this interpretation provides a fully layered listening experience without losing the moving essence of the original, which is available here:
https://soundcloud.com/lucas_gonze/for-my-wife-after-we-had-a-fight-on-our-anniversary

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Lucas Gonze & Fastus - For My Wife After We Had a Fight On Our Anniversary

Existential questions from a newly birthed, fully conversant intelligence. 

Pourquoi suis-je ici ?
De combien de temps ai-je ?
Ce qui se passe ?
Es-tu mon ami?
Où vas-tu? 

Why Am I here? 
How long do I have?
What’s Happening?
Are you My friend?
Where are You Going?

Je ne sais pas pourquoi je suis ici
Je me demande combien de temps il me reste
Dis-moi ce qui se passe
J'espère que tu es mon ami
je veux que tu restes avec moi

 I don’t know why I’m here
I wonder how long I have
Tell me what’s happening
I hope you are my friend
I want you to stay with me

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Need To Know

Do they really think all this gaslighting, propaganda and outright lying is going to get over? How in the world did we even get here?

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Dirty Tricks

MAGENTA - the original clip inspiring the song came from a series of 2 track improvs recorded directly to my modular sampler (saved in bank 'magenta') 

CASINO - a shout-out to a fav electronic act 'Casino vs Japan'

Magenta Casino

A brooding textured track - portrait of a state of mind - maybe it's yours...

If you like stuff from Mille Plateaux you'll probably like this.

When It Rains

\[     6 rand2 66 + = root  1 16 to 8 / log2 12 * = harmonics
    \[ 
        [4 8] pick 0 8 nirandz 4 [0 0 0 0 1 2 -1 -2] npicks @ + $/  24 irand2 + harmonics degkey root + nnhz cyc = sequence
        [.125 .25 .5 1 2 4 8 16] [2 3 4 5 5 4 3 2] sumto1 wpick 0 impulse = trig
        (sequence trig seq 0 .15 lfnoise3 .96 * pulse .6 lfnoise3 4h 8k biexp .1 .4 rand rlpf2) (trig 1m 2c xrand .2 1.6 rand decay2) * 
        .3 lfnoise3 .1 * + .3 lfnoise3 .5 32 biexp * tanh 5h 8k xrand lpf1 5c * rpan2
    ] 8 8 8 2 oltx 
    [.5 .5] lfnoise3 3m * 3m flange 4c 8 apverb6 
    900 60 fadeout "8-voice-harmonic-sequences-2" >sfo
] !

8 - Voice - Harmonic - Sequences - 2

This account contains examples from a programming language for audio.
This language is still very experimental and is not available. 

WHAT

This programming language is called:

"A tool for the expression of sound as pure form."

It is an interpreter for a language for creating and transforming sound. The
language is mostly functional, stack based and uses postfix notation similar to
FORTH. It represents audio and control events using lazy, possibly infinite
sequences. It intends to do for lazy sequences what APL does for arrays: provide
very high level functions with pervasive automatic mapping, scanning, and
reduction operators. This makes for a language where short programs can achieve
results out of proportion to their size. Because nearly all of the programmer
accessible data types are immutable, the language can easily run multiple
threads without deadlock or corruption.

WHY

Other languages that inspired this one:
    APL, Joy[1], Haskell, Piccola[2], Nyquist[3], SuperCollider[4].

APL and FORTH (from which Joy derives) are both widely derided for being
write-only languages. Nevertheless, there has yet to be a language of such
concise expressive power as APL or its descendants. APL is powerful not because
of its bizarre symbols or syntax, but due to the way it automatically maps
operations over arrays and allows iterations at depth within arrays. This means
one almost never needs to write a loop or think about operations one-at-a-time.
Instead one can think about operations on whole structures.

Here is a great quote from Alan Perlis[5] on APL, which that also reflects my
interest in this way of programming :
"What attracted me, then, to APL was a feeling that perhaps through APL one
might begin to acquire some of the dimensions in programming that we revere in
natural language — some of the pleasures of composition; of saying things
elegantly; of being brief, poetic, artistic, that makes our natural languages
so precious to us."

The Joy language introduced concatenative functional programming. This generally
means a stack based virtual machine, and a program consisting of words which are
functions taking an input stack and returning an output stack. The natural
syntax that results is postfix. Over a very long time I have come to feel that
syntax gets in between me and the power in a language. Postfix is the least
syntax possible.

There are several reasons I like the concatenative style of programming:
    Function composition is concatenation. 
    Pipelining values through functions to get new values is the most natural
        idiom.
    Functions are applied from left to right instead of inside out. 
    Support for multiple return values comes for free. 
    No need for operator precedence. 
    Fewer delimiters are required: 
        Parentheses are not needed to control operator precedence.
        Semicolons are not needed to separate statements.
        Commas are not needed to separate arguments.


When I am programming interactively, I most often find myself in the situation
where I have a value and I want to transform it to something else. The thing to
do is apply a function with some parameters. With concatenative programming this
is very natural. You string along several words and get a new value.


REFERENCES    

1. http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/joy.html

2. http://scg.unibe.ch/research/piccola

3. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/nyquist/

4. http://supercollider.sourceforge.net

5. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm


8 - Voice - Harmonic - Sequences - 2

sound as pure form

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