Twelve Little Fishies
By fc on April 15, 2012 1:02 pm
So this is done in Max/MSP and Logic. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, I could not for the life of me create a working poly~ object that accepted any generated MIDI data, it must (for whatever reason) only like things with a proper note-off... which I didn't figure out how to do and got annoyed at trying.
ANYWAY. So I thought I'd use a "tubular bells" sound, plus piano. Originally it was obnoxious zither and sitar samples... The aleatoric aspect of this comes from the random generation of a tonerow, and the random changes between retrograde, prime, retrograde-inversion and inversion forms of the row and the chance that the velocity might be 0 (omitting a couple of pitches from the row). The rhythms are serialised random durations, also.
I was very annoyed at the synthesis part. This is for you, Max/MSP: RARRRRRRRR
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