{"id":5906,"date":"2014-01-30T22:11:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2016-09-14T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T17:23:29","slug":"this-is-the-new-old-music-beginning-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2014\/01\/this-is-the-new-old-music-beginning-g.html","title":{"rendered":"This Is The New Old Music: Beginning g#"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Swear I’m working on some new stuff but to break things up a little I’ve been dusting off some old pieces. Beginning g# (It is probably safe to follow the current at this time)<\/a><\/strong><\/em> was made back in 2000, and revised just this week. <\/p>\n

I used a shareware algorithmic composer programme called AlComp to generate a relatively simple melody. The melody could be drawn from notes in either of two complementary sets of pitches, with a weighted probability. This melody is played simultaneously by 12 instruments in a \u2018staggered unison\u2019, where the attack of each note has been randomised within a possible range of four beats. The durations of the notes have been preserved and are the same for each instrument. <\/p>\n

The rhythmic flow is further developed by repeated, chance-determined changes in tempo. Each instrument takes turns to drop out of the texture for a fixed unit of time. Although each instrument plays in standard 12-tone equal temperament, each is tuned to a different frequency within the range of a semitone.<\/p>\n

For this new version, I’ve modified the intonation of each instrument so that the pitch they are tuned to slowly rises and falls throughout the piece. I’ve also altered the panning so that each instrument slowly moves from left to right and back, like so: <\/p>\n

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The piece was originally made on an old Soundblaster sound card. To re-record it I had to search the web for an old hardware driver to download, so I could extract the set of original instrument patches and recapture that very special low-quality sound.<\/p>\n

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