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Tintinnabulation#3

All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Edgar Allen Poe, The Bells, 1849

Low quality mp3
http://soundcloud.com/brian-wong/tintinnabulation-3

Higher quality .ogg version here on the podcast http://www.csounds.com/node/1381

Unicycloid + Unicycloid2

Unicycloid and Unicycloid2 are two pieces created with variations on a one-dimensional cellular automata composition system using a cycloid synth based on the design presented in the article by Hans Mikelson "Parametric Equation Oscillators" in Csound Magazine #2 http://www.csounds.com/ezine/spring1999/

You can check out the songs at http://www.soundcloud.com/brian-wong

pinkcube

pinkcube is an algorithmic adaptation of the song bluecube by Kim Cascone, as presented in this article http://www.csounds.com/cascone/index.html

I really enjoyed bluecube and the article and decided to create an constrained random algorithmic song using the same instruments and based approximately on the original.

http://www.soundcloud.com/brian-wong

Slendronica#1

Slendronica#1 is my 3rd piece in Slendro using my fractal AC tool. Besides refinement and expansion of the algorithmic composition code, these pieces have served the purpose of trying to find FM timbres that work with 5-TET. If successful, it is highly likely that similar or related designs would be effective in most or all other equal temperament tunings.

2 New Fractal Compositions

I have made 2 songs using a fractal music generator I have created in blue using Jython code. The synthesizer used is in both is one I call "7pm", a seven-oscillator phase modulation synth. The fractal music concept is inspired by that used in Fractal Tune Smithy.

The first song, "Tintinnabulation#1", is a basic example of applying a fractal seed to a single synthesizer. The scale is 5-TET, also known as Slendro.

Pmask Looper in blue

This is a project demonstrating a basic probabilistic drum machine type of application, using blue and Pmask. You can change the tempo, time signature and quantization value in the Pysetup object. Some of the interesting features include :

- Looping of values for various pfields need not coincide with the loop values of the note start times. This allows loops with polyrhythmic controls for the pfields.

Back to blue

After a long time away trying other platforms, I am back to Csound and blue and enjoying it more than ever. FMain Street was the 1st thing I did when coming back to blue. It is on the Podcast here at http://www.csounds.com/node/502

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