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Timescape
By vinpous on April 22, 2012 1:25 pmSo, this is a bit of a copout, but also not really. I wrote a patch in pd last year for a flute composition (duet for flute and electronics) which was a performative patch, which treated sound by analysing the incoming signal and resynthesizing it, adding delay lines and delay + transposition. After a lot of pissing about on Sunday night trying to get poly~ to work for me in the way I wanted in Max/MSP (again), and considering the same basic approach in PD, then thinking of writing a granular synth from scratch and deciding not to, my partner suggested using some of a recording I made this afternoon while I was at a BBQ/jam.
The source material is a timelapse sound recording using the phonograph software, which was recorded over about 5 hours (1000ms intervals, 100ms grains), with a Zoom H4n angled out of my front window, giving me about 7 minutes of audio. This piece is that sound file improvised on through the PD patch mentioned above, then stereo-ized slightly in Logic to polish it up.
I'm surprised and impressed at the output, and found this to be a most enjoyable (and incredibly interesting) piece to conceive and implement!
The source file will be used again in a chamber composition for two flutes and electronics, coming in about 5 weeks but probably not to WB. It's part of my Honours research/folio.
Have attached screenshots of the pd patch (or at least, parts of it)
The interface:
Part of the guts...
Timelapse software (phonoLapse):
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/04/what-if-you-could-make-timelapse-out-of-sound-free-macwindows-app-made-with-max/
http://www.soundplusdesign.com/?p=5059
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Very cool! I'm glad you can't hear me talking at any point - or the Pizza delivery guy! Totally didn't realise that thing was recording.. Crazy! Sounds really good though, what an eclectic concept
Thanks man. Also, to anyone who's paying attention, the dbmeter doesn't output sound. It took me a while to figure that one out...
I'm really surprised at how nicely rhythmic the piece is because of the joining of 100ms slices together.
Great concept and nice outcome!
Thankee, sir!
Wow, really interesting idea - it really did turn out pretty cool. But wait, a pizza delivery guy at your BBQ? 
puredata for the win! lovely sound result!
Lien: haha, no. I wasn't at home, my partner and housemate ordered pizza while I was out. Thanks for the kind words!
Analog: I keep thinking that too, thanks for the words.
"Vinpous, Mother wants to talk to you!" Is everybody using pd on here? Except me?! Great track.
Thanks? I'll give her a call? 
PD is good, but not for everything, some other people (on here and not) have written some amazing stuff with it. If you check out the website, there's this cool solenoid concert thing made with pd and some electronics. Really neat stuff.
Thanks for the compliment!
Nice idea for a piece. It works really well. Very interesting sound you managed to get.
Cheers.
whoa.. now this is trippy .I think i heard an airplane in the beginning. Nice
cool piece, didn't know what was going on at first, it was rhythmic enough to sound like it was sequenced for a bit
I think it's a train, DrumurBoy! We don't generally hear airplanes here! Thanks man.
George: yeah, I really like the rhythmic quality, but would be interested in a revised version of the software that crossfades the samples slightly.
Thanks.
Really interesting piece and surprisingly rhythmic with the choppy effect of the time slices. It comes out with a cool running filter effect.
Thanks man. 
wow
Interesting stuff here.
Thanks guys.
I gotta be honest, some of this stuff flew a little bit over my head, but i'm kinda happy about that because i'm now really intrigued and eager to educate myself in this whole setup. Sounds amazing. So i'm going to take some notes down and explore some of these programs and styles you just mentioned.