LicensedToIlzxc

By RajaTheResidentAlien on December 10, 2022 5:31 pm

this is a mashup of license's tracks:
cake batter frosting
and
desert gem
with ilzxc's tracks:
presets
and
whirl

..along with a track of mine which i made very quickly after getting me a CME WIDI Bud Pro this week and experimenting with it... (that thing let my iPad and norns speak Wifi MIDI to each other, i made ‘algorithmic’ music with the iMS-20 iPad app(something I couldn’t do with the regular in-app sequencer)..and i didn't have to get off the couch to plug wires in), what an age we live in!
..but since this algorithmic iMS-20 track didn't sound like it had much 'body', 'direction' or even a 'soul' , i decided to try out license and ilzxc's music to it hoping i wouldn't have to pitch-shift much(i had asked them a month or so ago if i could grab some stems from these specific tracks as i wanted do a 'mashup' style remix of multiple artists together for one of my final tracks before end of year here), and this turned out magical. everything edited, mixed, and mastered in Logic for the final(..also used my secret Max/MSP-FFT sauce, which makes it a different kind of mashup, one where i not only cut/mash into each other by time, but also by spectrum too).

been struggling with motivation past few weeks(i recently realized the downstairs neighbor has an alarm starting at 4am then thereafter continuously snoozed... i'm losing sleep... today i sit at my window watching.. watching the people, every being is being so busy, their suits are constrictive, their blood cannot flow, they try to conform us into a standardized hive of bank-accounts to form up like a nice thick uniform slurry-like mass fit for capitalistic levels of re/consumption, you are what you eat after all, so i am a bank account, and you are a bank account... sorry, wat? ..no.. i'm not going crazy... i just.. can't be... YOU ARE THE ONE who is going crazy! where was i? oh right...) so it’s quite a blessing that i was able to get this goal for weeklybeats done here at the last minute *innocent-angel-emoji*
this track is literally a miracle for me - their music: the miracle(that enchanted my creativity)

thought i'd share the lua script(though i'm still quite amateur) with the algorithmic weirdness i got up to on norns with MIDI(but aside from a norns, it requires some kind of MIDI-controlled synth with 7 voices/channels - channel 1, 6, and 7 being synths, channel 5 being bass, channel 2 the bass drum, channel 3 the snare, and channel 4 the hihats).

› here's the script for my iMS20 part

‹ here's the script for my iMS20 part

function init()
tix=0 tixx=0 tixxx=0 tx=0 ti=0 xt=0 sw=0 nte=0 ntet=0 hh=2 bss=2 syn=2 sy=2 sn=2 bd=2 br=0
clck = clock.run(steppa)
tbl = {60,64,65,67,69,72}
tabl = {24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 43, 45, 47, 48}
bdtabl = {1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0}
sntabl = {0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0}
nt1tabl = {0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1}
nt2tabl = {1, 0 , 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0}
chrdz = {2,4,5}
midout = midi.connect(2)
end

function steppa()
while true do
clock.sync(1/16)
nte = math.random(1,15)
ntet = tabl[nte]+12
tix = (tix+1) % 16
tixx = tix % 8
tixxx = tix % 4
if tixxx == 0 then tx=((tx+1)%8) if math.random(hh)>1 then midout:note_on(60,math.random(24,48),4) end end
if tixx == 0 then ti=((ti+1)%8)
if math.random(bss)>1 then
if nt1tabl[ti]==1 then midout:note_on(ntet,127,5) end
end
end
if tix == 0 then xt=((xt+1)%8)
if math.random(syn)>1 then midout:note_on(ntet+36,127,6) end clock.run(stepchrd, nte)
end
if (bdtabl[tx+1]==1) and (tx>2) then
if math.random(bd)>1 then midout:note_on(60,127,2) end
elseif (bdtabl[tx+1]==1) then
if math.random(bd)>1 then midout:note_on(60,127,2) end
end
if sntabl[tx+1]==1 then
if math.random(sn)>1 then
if math.random(24)>1 then midout:note_on(60,127,3) end
if math.random(5)>2 then clock.run(xsnar) end
end
end
if nt2tabl[xt+1]==1 then if math.random(sy)>1 then midout:note_on(ntet+24,127,7) end end
if xt==0 and tix==0 then
midout:note_on(tblnt,127,1) clock.run(ntoff,tblnt)
clock.run(xsyn)
br=(br+1)%4
end
if (br==0 or br==2) and tix==0 and xt==0 then
hh=math.random(1,2) bss=math.random(1,2) bd=math.random(1,4)
syn=math.random(1,2) sy=math.random(1,2) sn=math.random(1,2)
end
end
end

function ntoff(nteo) clock.sync(math.random(3)*0.25) midout:note_off(nteo,127,1) end

function xsnar() local num=math.random(1,5) for i=1,num do clock.sync(1/3) midout:note_on(60,127,3) end end

function xsyn()
local num=math.random(8,24)
for i=1,num do
local tblnt=tbl[math.random(1,6)]
clock.sync(1/5) midout:note_on(tblnt,127,1) clock.run(ntoff,tblnt)
end
end

function stepchrd(nte)
for i=1,4 do
clock.sync(1/12)
if math.random(2)>1 then midout:note_on(tabl[(nte+chrdz[math.random(1,3)])%16],127,6) end
end
end

Thanks to ilzxc and license for letting me mash their music

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December 12, 2022 12:43 am

ViridianLoom

I'm waiting for someone to pop in and do a remix of this song so we can keep going deeper down this rabbit hole .