Thursday, June 28, 2007

Busier than before

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Trying to get the repetitions to work.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

A bit more of the steel drum melody

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Each note has a small glissando applied to it now, either up by a 17:16 or down by a 15:16. Just enough to not notice too much.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Upsampling

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Upsampling is the deliberate munchinization of a sample. In this excerpt, I've upsampled the bent wire instrument and it sounds more like a steel drum.

Friday, June 22, 2007

Add the Balloon Drum Chorus

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This version adds the balloon drums and a very wet spring modified by a slow glissando, up or down or both. The drums are samples from a 4' long 4" sewer pipe with a balloon membrane. I take the sample up a few octaves, add five or six hits for every note at different octaves, separate the hits by a few milliseconds, and change the amplitude in different ways. The balloon drum is the only tuned instrument in the piece so far. I had to dump the oboe.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Oh boy the Oboe

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Need something very high for the melody. Not set on the Oboe, maybe a piccolo.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Squeaker

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Add the squeakers.

Down the well

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Increasing the audio location spread, the pitch climb, and the space between the notes.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Around in 13 steps

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13 beats to a measure that is. Rising each measure by the 53rd root of 2.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Spring at hand

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Samples of an instrument made from bent piano wire, plucked with the fingers, amplified with a hand wound guitar type pickup. Sounds a bit like a steel drum in this version.