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By fc on February 16, 2020 7:30 am
Named after a photo my partner took that resides on my (rarely used) studio wall.
This one was a real struggle to get done. Low-energy week.
So what is it?
It's 2x analogue synths (1x eurorack voice, 1x 0coast), controlled from MIDI data in Ableton Live. But, I hear you ask, where does the MIDI come from? I'm glad you asked, dear viewer. It comes from OpenMusic, which I have not used for a hot minute. I have been reading Richard Barrett's PhD exegesis, and it is reminding me of nice aspects of probability-based composition. Also, because I've become shit at OM in the last five years, I couldn't be bothered serialising/probability-ising the time signatures, so this is all in 4/4 at 90bpm, if anybody cares and wants to try counting them tuplets.
This piece is a huge source of frustration for me.
1. I could not for the life of me get OMLily to actually work and generate a Lilypond file that didn't cause Lilypond to crash at compile time. Gross. Sorry, no scores 4 u.
2. The velocity output on my Beatstep Pro seems... shady at best. This is likely my own lack of knowledge, but it *seems* as though the note-off message does NOT generate a velocity of 0, but rather closes the gate. This meant that the rhythmic articulation was... well, frustrating, and given the rhythmic complexity of this, that sucks a poopoo.
3. The wifi extender in my studio does not pick up the wifi with the door closed. Thanks, extender. And I only have the one (real) powerpoint to use it on, right next to a triple-brick wall. And the house wall a few metres away is also triple-brick. So uh, yep.
4. Honestly, this week was a bit like trying to coax a shit out of a constipated alpaca without laxatives.
5. I wish all MIDI devices could take MIDInotes as floats rather than integers, and thus microtones would be possible. Stupid non-microtonal BSP.
Some post-production (mainly soak the fucker in reverb) in Live. Recorded with Zoom H6.
On the plus side, got some great Stockhausen/Babbitt/
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