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Four Leaf Parsley (Live Patching)

By fc on April 20, 2014 1:41 am

I had a thing, but then didn't. So I set myself a ten minute time limit to create and perform something in Max. This was actually done completely live, I'd have done a video cast but I can't get one that actually allows me functional use of my computer. Interestingly, connecting audio cables in Max causes a slightly audio glitch. I suspect my computer is not really equipped for such activity.

All sound is generated from the mic built into my laptop, and with Max. I did a little bit of "mastering" in live, but not much.

Start to finish in less than 15 minutes including "mastering". In ten minutes for creation.

The sound at the end is my timer alarm going off. So it took me about five minutes to set up some parameters to work with...

Four Leaf Parsely (Before) by vince-giles, on Flickr

Four Leaf Parsely (After) by vince-giles, on Flickr

Amazingly efficient and effective.  Enough variation to maintain interest too.  I quite enjoy the minimal rhythms which come and go.

rdomain wrote:

Amazingly efficient and effective.  Enough variation to maintain interest too.  I quite enjoy the minimal rhythms which come and go.


Cheers! The rhythmic thing was really fun and the variation(s) it supplies are really useful and, I think, beautiful.

So it's processed feedback? And the rhythms are from beat tones?

Impressive.

Video?  :-)  COol concept!

Jim Wood wrote:

So it's processed feedback? And the rhythms are from beat tones?

Impressive.

It is processed feedback, yeah, but the rhythms are from volume envelopes, created using a sawtooth generator at 1hz and then at 2hz. There are other similar envelope generations acting on different things at different times.

Thanks! I'm pretty keen to get my chops up a bit more and start doing some of this stuff live, with projections.

cTrix wrote:

Video?  :-)  COol concept!


If I can get some software that doesn't cost money/isn't quicktime (which completely sucks my processing). VLC can do screen captures but I can't get it to record audio.

Impressive result from such a short creative burst, and even your alarm worked well in the music. Great work!

Plantrain wrote:

Impressive result from such a short creative burst, and even your alarm worked well in the music. Great work!


Brevity is my middle name?
Thanks very much. Yeah I though the alarm was surprisingly "well-timed", so to speak. Pun intended, etc.

Nice! Amazing that you did that in 15 minutes... I really like the texture that comes around 3/5 in. I might try a live patching of my own this summer when I'll have less time to work out a full track. I don't think I can come up with something recorded in 15 minutes though...

RawTicks wrote:

Nice! Amazing that you did that in 15 minutes... I really like the texture that comes around 3/5 in. I might try a live patching of my own this summer when I'll have less time to work out a full track. I don't think I can come up with something recorded in 15 minutes though...


Cheers.
You could come up with something recorded - improvise!

Dude, way impressive!

Lyons wrote:

Dude, way impressive!


Danke. We should do a collaborative improv using live patching, ja?

vinpous wrote:
Lyons wrote:

Dude, way impressive!


Danke. We should do a collaborative improv using live patching, ja?

Ja mang, I'm up for it after these festivals!

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