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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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Well, your description kinda lost me, but who doesn't love arsenic?

Jim Wood wrote:

Well, your description kinda lost me, but who doesn't love arsenic?


Similarly lost here, but this was a textural delight. The warping of the pitches gives an eerie vibe, reminiscent of the green glow of arsenic poisoning.

Jim Wood wrote:

Well, your description kinda lost me, but who doesn't love arsenic?

Apparently the Victorians were quite fond of it!

Avarine wrote:
Jim Wood wrote:

Well, your description kinda lost me, but who doesn't love arsenic?


Similarly lost here, but this was a textural delight. The warping of the pitches gives an eerie vibe, reminiscent of the green glow of arsenic poisoning.

Thank you!  Not that I know what arsenic poisoning is like, but still...

kaedo sevaada wrote:

Lovely!

Guitar-based pieces--including the set--are up here: https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/with-guitar

(or, y'know, https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/with-guitar


yay snoooooooove!!!!  downloading now smile

kaedo sevaada wrote:


yay snoooooooove!!!!  downloading now smile

Thank you!  Enjoy!

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