Saturday, May 23, 2009
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
30 Songs in 30 Days: Songs 16 - 18
~By Sebastian Tomczak
I've joined this challenge to write 30 pieces of chip music in 30 days.
"The idea of it is that in a timeframe of 30 days you are to write 30 songs. These songs can be a 10 second long melody and bassline or an epic, melodic 15 minute long piece. There is little chance of actually completing 30 masterpieces, but that isn’t the point. The point is to push your boundaries of what you would normally do."
Here is my sixteenth song. It's called "The Swarm", written for a 48 hr challenge. There is a video for this track as well. You can read more and see the video here.
Here is my seventeenth song. It's called "Factory Funk", written using Nanoloop 2.3 and Ableton Live.
Here is my eighteenth song. It's called "Pixel Sonification #03 - "Live MIDI Mapping Panel"", written using an image to music tool that I wrote specifically for the task of the 30 Day challenge.
You can also listen to these tracks via the rss feed.
"The idea of it is that in a timeframe of 30 days you are to write 30 songs. These songs can be a 10 second long melody and bassline or an epic, melodic 15 minute long piece. There is little chance of actually completing 30 masterpieces, but that isn’t the point. The point is to push your boundaries of what you would normally do."
Here is my sixteenth song. It's called "The Swarm", written for a 48 hr challenge. There is a video for this track as well. You can read more and see the video here.
Here is my seventeenth song. It's called "Factory Funk", written using Nanoloop 2.3 and Ableton Live.
Here is my eighteenth song. It's called "Pixel Sonification #03 - "Live MIDI Mapping Panel"", written using an image to music tool that I wrote specifically for the task of the 30 Day challenge.
You can also listen to these tracks via the rss feed.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
The Swarm
~By Sebastian Tomczak
The Swarm by little-scale from sebastian tomczak on Vimeo.
"Chaos Amoeba has challenged me to a 48 hour challenge: "I challenge little-scale to make a piece of music that sounds like a swarm of insects."
I scratched my head and wondered how I would go about this, and what it means exactly - for example, would a swarm of insects be best represented by a given musical theme? Or would it be best to go for a strategy that somehow simulates the perception of hearing and being inside a swarm of insects.
I decided to go for a slightly more abstract path - sonifying the behaviour of a swarm..."
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Image to Music - ("Mandala 10" and "Mandala 11")
~By Sebastian Tomczak
Image to music software on a pixel-by-pixel basis (in blocks of 4 x 4 pixels). The images above are "Mandala 10" and "Mandala 11" by the 8bitcollective.com user Campbell.
LFSR
~By Sebastian Tomczak
I have made a Max external that produces pseudo-random noise using a simple feedback shift register. The object has six inlets and can take up to six arguments, allowing the user to create any LFSR with a length of up to 16 bits with 1, 2 or 3 taps. The taps can be at any bit position. The frequency of the one bit output, the gain, the position of the taps and the length can be set at any time by sending a corresponding message to a given inlet.
Download this object with source here.
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