Immortal Fire
By onezero on February 18, 2018 4:21 pm
This week involved work and travel for music--I did several snwv Max/MSP performances/improvisations at a festival up north on a frozen bay. This piece isn't one of them, but uses the same method: a Max/MSP patch I've been developing with four parallel delay lines involving pitch shift, degrading, and other processors, many of which can be randomized (and the time for each random value to be reached is also randomized). In this piece, the only randomized things are panning and percentage of bit-depth reduction. I did three passes--the first two with long sine wave tones, and the third with shorter tones. In Live, I crossfaded the two long-tone passes, and sending those to a convolution reverb, and then putting the shorter tone one over the top with less reverb.
The title comes from my practice this year of following the periodic table--now week 7, nitrogen. One of the earliest known compounds of nitrogen was ammonium chloride, which was observed in Central Asia around vents of volcanos and underground coal fires. According to Wikipedia, "the word for ammonium chloride in several Asian languages derives from the Iranian phrase anosh adur (immortal fire)."
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