Thoughts on Generative Music - Part 11

(contains embedded video – there are VCV rack presets mentioned in the text here and there. Owners of my book, this article is an excerpt from, will get the link to those presets. More about my book here: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/331)

Chapter 3.4:

Certain Patch Techniques And Examples

In the World of Grains – Part 7

(contains embedded video – excerpt from my e-book about sonic grains: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/332)

Here we have to differentiate between at least 2 levels of organisation: the (single) grain level, and the level of clusters of grains (sometimes called “events”, sometimes called “molecules”).

On the level of a single grain there are only three basic parameters:

1. the duration of the grain

The Modules of the Vintage ARP 2500 – Part 10

In my last article I took a patch from the original ARP 2500 vintage modular synthesizer, analysed it and transferred it to Cherry Audio´s Voltage Modular. Today I´m walking the line in the opposite direction. I start with a brass-like patch at Voltage modular, explain the goings on and transfer it to the “switch” version of the original ARP 2500 (the software emulation G2500). Let´s go!

Close Encounters of a Special Kind – Part 10

More About Random Rhythms

Another interesting source of random rhythms in sound design is rain. Rain is even more fertile, as it can give us a suggestion of different percusion, different percussive instruments and an idea of how to use them, how to divide the gained random rhythms between the different kinds of percussion. What I do is placing cans of different sizes, and other things that produce sound when hit on the balcony or in the garden.

Thoughts on Generative Music - Part 10

(contains embedded video – there are VCV rack presets mentioned in the text here and there. Owners of my book, this article is an excerpt from, will get the link to those presets. More about my book here: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/331)

Chapter 3.3:

Specific Compositional Techniques

In the World of Grains – Part 6

(contains embedded video)

A First Attempt to

Classify and to Systemise Approaches to

Using Sonic Grains in

Music and Audible Art

(excerpt from my book: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/332)

The Modules of the Vintage ARP 2500 – Part 9

After talking about the individual modules of the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer it is time to see and hear the ARP 2500 modules in action. Let me say it in a poetical style: this is going to be our first ARP 2500 close encounter in real. And we are going to have this encounter even twice: once with the original ARP 2500 vintage synth from 1970 (witch switches) and additional once with the (software) Eurorack version of Cherry Audio´s Voltage Modular. The same patch brought to life on two different versions of the same synth.

Close Encounters of a Special Kind – Part 9

Some Last Notes About the Earthquake

I had recorded three layers of the sound generated in the experiment, that I described in my last article (of this series – link see below). The first layer was recorded using a piezo element, which was fixed to the speaker (directly). The second layer I gained from another piezo element, which was fixed on the little tube, and the third layer came from the dynamic microphones at my Zoom H5 recorder.

Thoughts on Semi-Modular Synths vs. Eurorack – Part 9

Chapter 5: Special Technical Aspects

In this temporarily last chapter (chapter 6 will follow in some weeks, but not at once) I´m going to talk about some general technical aspects, which speak – unfortunately – mainlyagainst semi modular setups.

Thoughts on Generative Music - Part 9

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Chapter 3.2.3 excerpt from my book: 

https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/331

Basic but Exclusively Generative Techniques