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This track is a return to the yoctonaut way of working: Bleep!BOX on iOS, a live dub mix of synthesized-in-BBOX melodies and rhythms, recorded into Ableton Live and not processed in any way. One take, no edits.
The title is from the fact that 33 is a Størmer number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Størmer_number
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Størmer numbers = too advanced for the likes of me. Is that involved in the composition of this very nice and clangy piece?
Størmer numbers = too advanced for the likes of me. Is that involved in the composition of this very nice and clangy piece?
Thanks, Jim! Actually, the Størmer number is just a convenience for a title. I was looking for interesting attributes of the number 33.
It'd be tricky to do something related to 33 in Bleep!BOX, unless I went with 33 or a multiple for a tempo. (Not sure offhand if the tempo can go down that low. Let me check... It could! It goes down as low as 30.) You can do a lot of different stuff with this app, but you're going to be working with 16 sequencing slots per measure, up to 8 measures. I did do something in 7 once, laboriously working out the bar line crossings in 7 measures, but that was a struggle.
Of course, since the first several are 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, and 20, some of those would be musically applicable. OK, I'm going to say that yes, they're involved, since I'm doing 4 measures of 16 slots. (I'll just pretend I meant that all along. "Yes, yes...it's Størmer numbers throughout," I say, stroking my chin academically.)
Hats off for doing this live in one take. Wow! And i think you've managed to worm a very warm and clean sound out of Bleep!BOX. Congrats!
nice groove! it rocks!
Hats off for doing this live in one take. Wow! And i think you've managed to worm a very warm and clean sound out of Bleep!BOX. Congrats!
Thank you! I find Bleep!BOX to be very expressive, with a lot of opportunities for tone-shaping. Difficult to do time signatures other than 4/4, but that's a small quibble. Great at what it does.
