The Green Book
By onezero on August 18, 2018 6:02 am
Guitar improvisation through my Max/MSP patch. There are four channels of pitch shifting, delay, two delay modulators per delay, bit crushing, high-pass and low-pass filters, ring modulation, and panning. Parameters of each are randomizable within ranges, and the time for each parameter to get to the next random value is also randomized. I did a show on Thursday night with guitar through this patch and it went well...but I double-tapped the stop-record toggle, which then set the write pointer to the 54-byte mark. It looked like I'd zeroed out the set, so I recorded some improvs through the patch at home.
I moved the 54-byte file into the trash without emptying it...and when I looked later, I saw that without the size hint from the FAT, the file appeared to be full-length (234MB). So I imported it as raw data into Audacity--it took a number of tries with different settings (some of which had one channel intact but not the other, or were the wrong length). Eventually I hit on the predictable 16-bit signed bit depth, 44.1KHz, big-endian byte order, and I had it all back. (I'll probably put this up this week.)
Title from one of the Victorian-era uses of arsenic, element 33--for a particular shade of green.
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