{"id":9163,"date":"2022-04-01T16:32:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=9163"},"modified":"2022-04-01T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T15:32:16","slug":"early-attempts-to-speak-with-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2022\/04\/early-attempts-to-speak-with-the-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Early Attempts To Speak With The Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=91234980\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3863392086\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/cookylamoo.bandcamp.com\/album\/early-attempts-to-speak-with-the-dead\">Early Attempts To Speak With The Dead by Ben Harper<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a busy couple of weeks, partly because I finished up a new piece of music. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cookylamoo.bandcamp.com\/album\/early-attempts-to-speak-with-the-dead\">on Bandcamp<\/a> if you want to take a peek. Normal service will resume shortly.<\/p>\n<p>I had a bunch of unused recordings left over from making my feedback synthesis piece <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cookylamoo.bandcamp.com\/album\/chain-of-ponds\">Chain of Ponds<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Not wanting to waste them, I fed the recordings into the feedback system used to make them in the first place, creating eight 30-minute stereo files of more complex sounds.<\/p>\n<p>These files were at first mixed together to make a composite piece titled <em><strong>An Entire Bottle of Hospital Brandy<\/strong><\/em> in 2021. I eventually decided the piece needed more work. For this new piece, the eight recordings were fed into a matrix mixer that randomly switched outputs so that any of the 16 channels may be modulated by any other. Each of the resulting eight modulated signals were then fed through a gate controlled by a different signal path, so that only certain parts of each output are audible. After a half-dozen or so revisions, the system is now capable of producing a more varied range of sounds and textures over an indefinite period of time, using only minimal additional processes.<\/p>\n<p>Gate sensitivity and volume level are controlled manually, but this performance uses minimal intervention. The eight outputs are panned across the stereo range. Inspiration was drawn from David Tudor&#8217;s performance practice and from Henri Pousseur&#8217;s <em>Paraboles-Mix<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Attempts To Speak With The Dead by Ben Harper It&#8217;s been a busy couple of weeks, partly because I finished up a new piece of music. It&#8217;s on Bandcamp if you want to take a peek. Normal service will resume shortly. I had a bunch of unused recordings left over from making my feedback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9165,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions\/9165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}