Name: Etude 1 - Stochastic Modular Synthesizer by Sean Garcia-Leys
Duration: 7 min 58 s
Description: First generative patch created with Softube Modular. Rhythm generated by square wave oscillators fed into logic modules. Melodies generated by white noise fed into a sample and hold module and quantized to a diminished scale.

13. in orange light

10. these glacial expectations

written for and performed by Laura Cocks. 
recorded July 2021 in Brattleboro, Vermont. 
Full recording coming in 2022. 

All electronics were generated via Google's ddsp timbre-transfer neural synthesis engine. I compiled a digital model of the members of TAK ensemble using a corpus of audio samples they provided. Then, I passed individual voices of a pre-recorded quintet of Lauras (aka flute sounds, mostly multiphonics) through a different model of each player. The resulting monophonic audio attempts to both learn the characteristics of the respective virtual performers and "mishear" the polyphonic harmony as a single line. Itself a poorly rendered model of this original material, Laura's 6th solo part (performed live) essentially "puppeteers" digital phantasms of her friends, weaving live and simulated flutes through an AI's approximation of a classical chamber ensemble. 

Huge thank you to Marina, Charlotte, Madison, & Ellery for your sounds & for your virtual presences!

virtual chamber music (for flute and ensembles) - II. Runciter Assoc. (shadow music, for TAK)

written for and performed by Laura Cocks. 
recorded July 2021 in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Full recording coming in 2022. 

Electronic and acoustic material generated via Open AI Jukebox neural synthesis engine. A predictive machine learning algorithm attempts to auto-complete a mainstay of the classical flute repertoire. Two diverging vectors are used - one for the accompaniment (realized electronically) one for the solo (transcribed and reinterpreted by Laura). Title generated from a text-based RNN trained on the complete concertos of W.A. Mozart.

Not quite your senior year conservatory jury requirement, but close enough to fall into an uncanny valley.

virtual chamber music - IV. Flute Cnncerto o. 1 inn Gmaair, K. 45 i1nn2(“7t. m ,K. 97221 cinn nfruuu

First generative patch created with Softube Modular. Rhythm generated by square wave oscillators fed into logic modules. Melodies generated by white noise fed into a sample and hold module and quantized to a diminished scale.

Etude 1 - Stochastic Modular Synthesizer

Recorded practice session 23/11/2022
Fragments from 
Linda Catlin Smith: Galanthus
Ihlara McIndoe: Ushuaia Fragments

Work-In-Progress, Practice Diary 1

for none shall gaze upon the Father and live

I use modular synthesizers to compose for acoustic and electronic instruments.

Etude 1 - Stochastic Modular Synthesizer

Sean Garcia-Leys

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