Universe in Your Spine
By miraclemiles on September 9, 2018 8:41 pm
Time to get a little weird and abstract. Most of this track used Seurat Midi, a "generative music tool for and automated sample browser" for Ableton Live. Used some of their provided samples (yay for clarinet!! and zither!!). For voice I wanted to have multiple people adding words and phrases, maybe with a theme, then use Seurat to create some generative poetry. As a test run, I read a translation of a Hafiz poem. I ended up running out of time, so used that for the voice here. I added some percussion, an some subs. The drone is coming from taking the output of drum samples in Seurat, then running through Behr's ResoDub free device for Live, which is awesome for generative droniness. It can take a little time to set up all the samples, then Seurat can be a little finicky, but it gets some unexpected, random results, and I think the potential is great. Deconstructing / reverse engineering some of these devices to see how they build them is good learning experience for Live as well.
Great interview, where I first hears about this: https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/jason-grier-demonstration-disc/
Website with samples, and Seurat device: http://hem.rocks/
Behr ResoDub: https://gumroad.com/l/GMSpI
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