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W09 - Recursion

By ENC_ on March 3, 2024 12:41 pm

Thinking about number randomization, human recursion, biases, and systems. Personal patterns and perspectives can be hard to change. Election coming up. I have had a lot of stimulus as well as time to consider relationships between myself and the world around me. Spent a day in the remaining redwoods w/ partner. I would like to do that more often. Once a month? LA plans. Promised myself I wont go along with parties and focus on my personal values. Hopeful this is the last drained cycle with demographic shifts. Concerned about aging family and end of life relationships while at the same time. Short on time end of the week. Good but unproductive. Incapable but hopeful.

Inspired by 1(ISBN: 9781478019381 Links decay), 2,
3, 4 (contact fold right eye skewed vision), 5, 6, MIYAZAKI, 8, Metroid Zero, tetris, Pico-8, miyoo mini plus,



Software Used:

Ableton
Wavesfactory Cassette (Starting noise gen and self processing)
Sound Toys Echo Boy
The fellow Passenger Slipthrough (max)
Plogue Chipcrusher 2
Fors Opal


Started after conversation with K and T. Mentioned starting track late after teaching conversations, NES, balders, charisma rolls, and movie. Mentioned being late to start the track this week and joked about running randomized midi data through a quanitizer a synth and reverb and calling it a day. This did happen but was built into a lager feedback enviorment that made up the core sounds. All parts interconnected. generative patch shifting and improvised triggering and manipulation recored in one shot after a few hours of building system. Starting feedback sound derived from cassette feedback loop mixed with vocoder return and randomized tuned sequence and effects. This was then sent back into itself again. Results in tuned feedback chords that push and pull on their own. Layered other feed back parts tuned to higher sections and limited notes. Also done with percussion. Once a stable network was created between all sources, mixed in generative drum machine patterns and bass.

Improvised composition and recorded to stems in one take. Small edits and basic mixing. No compression/mastering needed due to series of limiters to prevent cliping in feedback chanins. Wild results worth revisiting. Digital no input mixing board patching basically.

File Name: Ableton "W09 - FB_System",

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Those waves of sound create quite the atmosphere.
- Spider

Beautiful feedback sound, love how it moves in kind of subtle but still very effectful way. Interesting to read your description of the process, not that i understand completely, seems kind of magical to me…

Lovely layers happening here. The mix sounds spectacular. Nice work

love it

Devieus wrote:

Those waves of sound create quite the atmosphere.
- Spider


Just some feedback ran through a vocoder with a generative noise source.



Suhpos wrote:

Beautiful feedback sound, love how it moves in kind of subtle but still very effectful way. Interesting to read your description of the process, not that i understand completely, seems kind of magical to me…

The way I describe it sounds more complicated then it is. It is just a ton of normal effects run back into itself that causes feedback (like if you put a micrphone too or electric guitar too close to a speaker). The vocoder does most of the work and tunes it into tuned notes and chords.



that_ranjit wrote:

Lovely layers happening here. The mix sounds spectacular. Nice work


Hey thank you and I am glad you enjoyed it. The mix is a bit unblanced to my ears still but sometimes that is how it goes with a deadline.


10k wrote:

love it

Aye! Thanks. It was an generative experiment week because I needed something quick and easy. It ended up a bit more interesting then I remembered 🤔

Loving the top notch IDM vibes!

drums are so good. really digging the kind of call and response quality between that hi hat and the breathy layer in the same register that feels almost like a reverb.

I appreciate you including your sources of inspiration - really cool idea. some nice stuff to check out in here.

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