Another self-generating feedback piece. This is all generated by a single note on the piano. There are filtering delays, multitap stereo delays, MIDI delays and arpeggiators, pitch shifters and feedback networks at work here. And it all goes into the acoustic space of Laukyrkan with its standing waves. 2005-10-09

This is the same approach as yesterday, I just switched the source and filter tracks. The result is quite different. 2005-10-08 Also, by doing five of these, I’ve broken the symmetry with the “Symmetry” series, so this is truly asymmetrical.

I’m finding many different ways to combine these two tracks. This time I’m convolving the two tracks – basically the spectral information from one track controls the frequency information of the other, or as Wikipedia puts it, “In mathematics and in particular, functional analysis, convolution is a mathematical operator which takes two functions f and […]

I took the output of the last two days and laid them on top of each other out of sync. I’m pleased with the way they work together. 2005-10-06

This is based on the same processes and structures as yesterday with a bit of fiddling and different instruments. 2005-10-05

Getting away from the highly structured approach of the last few days and back to my usual disorder. This is a looping piece, sort of. There are loops, buy they’re slightly different each time they show up. There’s also lots of simulated tape saturation in this to give it a bit of a 1970’s sound. […]

Exploring further on the same track. I’ve thinned it out a little bit, having each instrument rest for a few bars determined by a bilaterally symmetrical pattern. 2005-10-03

I added two half-tempo basses to the track. Because they’re exactly half tempo, the length is not changed, but they fill out the track quite nicely. 2005-10-02

I think this one shows promise, so I’m going to work on developing it further. I’ve added another cello and viola, each at 110 bpm and this time playing the melody a fifth higher. It’s twice as long too, because the new tempo takes that long to get back in sync. 2005-10-01

This is a phasing piece, but more structured than usual for me. There are two melodies, one played by three cellos, the other by three violas. Each group of instruments plays the same melody several times at three different tempos, 120, 100, and 80 beats per minute. They stop playing at the point when they […]