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WhoNeedsTransitions

By RajaTheResidentAlien on November 6, 2022 9:50 am

I'm STILL working on the norns app, but i STILL read more of that gen~ book this week too, so this track is another Max patch(i'm having too much fun with clock-dividers...)... i got through chapter 3 and 4.. so much about shaping signals(shaping clock-signals and control signals, also 'waveshaping' audio signals), so i do basics of those here(guiding distortion/saturation over drums with an envelope to make them sound ridiculously fat big_smile ...here i'm using mostly soft-clip distortion, but there's an additional 'sigmoid' waveshaper over the bassdrum and snare sometimes).

now i need to learn to transition musical sections(and also work with pitch in general lol)better while playing in these algorithmic/procedural spaces hmm
it's as if you can get the 'idea' frameworked by tech, but it's so difficult to add the right substance of 'feeling' through just math... someday, you'll be able to just have a chip in your brain with a few microscopic sensory wires flowing through the rest of your body, and the AI in your comp or maybe the AI over 'the-web-of-things' along with the AI embedded in your body will all network together to learn how you feel/think/live and anticipate what you mean everywhere you go with everything you desire to do(and possibly adjust the stock market to play more friendly so that everyone's personal needs and desires get more easily funded and thus in this AI-ensured way cause all our individual eccentricities to meld into one common flow towards this AI-ensured 'greater good'... but then that AI might gain too much advantage, decide that the only way to assure the 'greater good' is to extend the human concept of it within a virtual world, while also taming humanity all throughout the physical world(<-yer wondering how i went straight into thinking that? i told ya i needed work on transitions wink )... now that i think about it, maybe that's what we are now, all hooked up to an illusion, just like in the matrix, and now as we evolve, we're just playing with all this tech in order to help the AI which has mastered us with all this illusion, simply create a more effective illusion by getting us to work continually on building up our world of illusions. all of us, created by an illusion, trained by this illusion to train our illusions on how to create their own illusions! muahahahahahahahaha! i've gone mad mad mad i tellz ya! it's ok... it's what these weeklybeats description fields are here for i've decided.. that, and remembering to close off parenthetical observations, very important, i know you thought i'd lost track, but no, here it is, properly closed with the final parentheses so that no demonic AIz can sneak in->)
*angel-emoji* (*evil-face-in-a-straight-jacket-emoji*) *no-just-kidding:again-with-the-innocent-angel-emoji*

› here's the patch,instructions are commented within

Hope you're all doing beautifully and do keep bringing that amazing musical fire, i seriously love it all, have not heard a single crappy track this entire year big_smile(feel free to ugly it up more at times, seriously!...it's a bit too intimidating to hear this much beautiful music from so many people...it makes me wonder, 'where is my place in this world, when there's already so much beauty?' *thinking-face-emoji* ...i suppose that makes me all the more honored to be right here: on weeklybeats with all you beautiful people smile )

Much Love heart heart heart heart heart

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November 7, 2022 1:00 am

Tone Matrix

Awesome array of sounds.  I think the title could have also been "The Work of a Mad Scientist".  It sounds like your whipping up potions of beats and textures smile  Really cool stuff.  I know absolutely nada about max or any of those cool generative things.  I like how the drums have like a fast snare roll to them.  Nice work!

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November 7, 2022 4:24 am

orangedrink

your place in this world is to be your beautiful self, making your beautiful works of art.

not being able to discern that within yourself is a slight hurdle you'll eventually learn to overcome.  I listen to your work and think, "there is so much technicality and so much detail!  how beautiful!"

(also: that's neat I personally know someone from Autechre and their alias is Raja, how cool)

XD


Tone Matrix wrote:

I think the title could have also been "The Work of a Mad Scientist".

+1

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November 7, 2022 5:46 am

Ipaghost

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November 7, 2022 12:07 pm

rdomain

Really liking this track!  Much more interest going on to last week.  More variation of tones and rhythms.  Love all the ratcheting rhythms.

How are you liking the book?  Recommended?  It's quite expensive to buy/ship to Australia but I'm pretty keen!  Might put it on the Xmas list from the gf.  smile

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November 7, 2022 1:34 pm

jimmac

Lovely textures.

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November 7, 2022 3:31 pm

Q-Rosh

I consider this the tip of the spear of actual electronic music. you are going deep into sounds and leave the frontiers behind. well done!

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November 7, 2022 8:03 pm

mzunguko

love the places your tracks take me, I too wonder where I am, being here surrounded by so much creative energy is a blessing for sure, thank you!

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November 7, 2022 9:22 pm

RajaTheResidentAlien

Tone Matrix wrote:

Awesome array of sounds.  I think the title could have also been "The Work of a Mad Scientist".  It sounds like your whipping up potions of beats and textures smile  Really cool stuff.  I know absolutely nada about max or any of those cool generative things.  I like how the drums have like a fast snare roll to them.  Nice work!


So very much appreciated big_smile

orangedrink wrote:

your place in this world is to be your beautiful self, making your beautiful works of art.
not being able to discern that within yourself is a slight hurdle you'll eventually learn to overcome.  I listen to your work and think, "there is so much technicality and so much detail!  how beautiful!"
(also: that's neat I personally know someone from Autechre and their alias is Raja, how cool) XD

Tone Matrix wrote:

I think the title could have also been "The Work of a Mad Scientist".


+1


Thank You!! (Haha: if only… they could call me “the third Autechre” XD) Much Honored heart

Ipaghost wrote:


Wow, a yin-yang bouncing ball! Best. Gif. Ever! Yes, this is the kind of transition i need to learn more of(like some magic trick of the ear and you’re suddenly in another space that still makes perfect sense). heart

rdomain wrote:

Really liking this track!  Much more interest going on to last week.  More variation of tones and rhythms.  Love all the ratcheting rhythms.
How are you liking the book?  Recommended?  It's quite expensive to buy/ship to Australia but I'm pretty keen!  Might put it on the Xmas list from the gf.  smile


Thank You! So glad you like. YES, I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THE BOOK! (<-haha, sorry for my obnoxious loudness XD) i probably should’ve mentioned it but it comes with patches(in my patches i use some of them, but i try to recreate them so i can learn them… but you’ll get a collection of nicely commented tools), and it feels like, since Max is free to use and view patches, people who don’t use Max could still learn so much from this book just by looking at the math in the patches and converting it to their favorite environ. Feels really worth it in my opinion(there’s so much information here).

jimmac wrote:

Lovely textures.


Ya, trying to get some ear-massagy textures here for sure, Thank You! smile

Q-Rosh wrote:

I consider this the tip of the spear of actual electronic music. you are going deep into sounds and leave the frontiers behind. well done!


Truly appreciated and honored! heart

mzunguko wrote:

love the places your tracks take me, I too wonder where I am, being here surrounded by so much creative energy is a blessing for sure, thank you!


Thanking you deeply! I love the journey and depth of your tracks as well, glad to be among so many kindred spirits here big_smile heart

Thanks so much again, Everyone! heart heart heart heart heart

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November 8, 2022 5:07 am

rdomain

Ok, that's it.  It's going on the xmas list!  big_smile

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November 9, 2022 9:23 pm

Cosmic Cairns

I really like the variety on display here.  One moment the percussion is almost machine-gunning and then we get some nice little breaks to catch our breath before it's off into some other interesting pattern.  And the textures are great, too.

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November 11, 2022 4:36 am

ViridianLoom

The stuff that kicks in around a minute into the song is like ear candy to me. I can't explain how or what exactly since it's all just kind of a electronic soundscape of unfamiliarity to me but it tickles my synapses.

I totally feel you on the self-doubt of how your music holds up to others that you admire, but you are absolutely one of the people here on weeklybeats making the beautiful music being admired by others as well.

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November 11, 2022 2:03 pm

Jason Nijjer

Another fine piece of music, brilliant sounds and nicely mangled and stretched for our listening pleasure.  So much to uncover each time, listening again and hearing sounds I didn't notice the first time, amazing programming. 

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November 11, 2022 10:29 pm

miraclemiles

That was nice sonic journey, it slipped its way into my psyche and said hellooooo there friend! Great sonic creation. As the titles says, who needs them, we do not, this is the new era of no transitions. Enjoyed your description too, made me smile. Max is so inspiring, I use devices in Live, but rarely poke around beneath the hood, some day I'm sure I will, you're an inspiration to dig around deeper. That book looks interesting, thanks for sharing all the knowledge.

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November 12, 2022 11:06 pm

emily

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November 14, 2022 11:04 pm

dr0ptpacket

Wow... 2:14... tick... tick... tick... tick...  Love the variety and places this one takes us.

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November 29, 2022 9:35 am

ilzxc

Ipaghost wrote:

!!!! always outnumbered, never outgiffed.

(This is pretty damn great, very very partial to sprinkler hats... Ordered the gen~ book, btw, thanks for the heads up)

Sharing dvdp's work 'cuz I love how much mileage his early work got out of entirely still geometry & animated textures and this track kinda made me think of that.

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