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Le tableau Étude Café Cuisine

By fc on March 23, 2014 10:37 am

Musique Concrète, went to a big old shopping centre (mall?) today, went and had coffee and cake. Recorded. Sliced. Arranged. All. Of. The polyrythms. I was going to score this using notation but could I be bothered? Nope.

Kind of a trial run for a pretty big multi-channel work I'm planning.

BANANA

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Nice. Looping. And how were you going to score it in notation?

Jim Wood wrote:

Nice. Looping. And how were you going to score it in notation?

Because it's mapped to Live's drum rack, the bass clef from G2 to A3 would be the reversed samples, and E4 to F5 (treble clef) would be the forward-playing samples. Then just notate it. A 13:10 tuplet at around 90bpm is equal to a sample playback time of around 62ms, so I would have set that as my shortest sound (and most dense tuplet), and a minim ends up being about the 1.5s for the full sample, any longer duration would loop.

A headtrip.  Will be extra nuts on a multi channel setup!

Wow.

rdomain wrote:

A headtrip.  Will be extra nuts on a multi channel setup!


Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I was going to try having the work done by the end of this month to present at a conference, but nuts to that. I haven't even got around to chopping the audio up yet.

Jim Wood wrote:

Wow.


Thanks, I think. And to even more directly answer the question: pencil and paper.

Yeah, my March was insanely busy with the Adelaide Festival plus gigs/recordings etc.  I've got my first 5.1 installation going in this weekend.  Pretty excited to see it come to fruition! 

How big an array are you working with?  I'm super keen to invest in a quality 5.1 monitoring system at home. 

Thanks, I think. And to even more directly answer the question: pencil and paper.
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Yes, that was a wow of awe.

rdomain wrote:

Yeah, my March was insanely busy with the Adelaide Festival plus gigs/recordings etc.  I've got my first 5.1 installation going in this weekend.  Pretty excited to see it come to fruition! 

How big an array are you working with?  I'm super keen to invest in a quality 5.1 monitoring system at home.

Awesome! Congrats! I want to come to Adelaide.
I actually just work with two channels until close to realisation time, then find a studio with a least quad to do final mix from channel-specific mixdowns. The major problem is that once installed in a space, the mix needs to be adjusted anyway. Creating artificial spaces can create problems in a real environment, so I just try to get each channel as close to individually good as possible, and imagine how they will interact (like instruments), leaving only minor adjustments when realised.

Jim Wood wrote:

Yes, that was a wow of awe.


Oh, thank you! smile

I like this! Lots of intriguing rhythms going on there.

Plantrain wrote:

I like this! Lots of intriguing rhythms going on there.


A-why-thankyew!

Fantastic work.  I really like that recurring loop buried in the mix.  Fine early morning listening. smile

Tristan Louth-Robins wrote:

Fantastic work.  I really like that recurring loop buried in the mix.  Fine early morning listening. smile


Cheers Tristan, glad you like it!

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