[LAU] Pits And Gits - new piece from AVSynthesis/Csound

[Dave Phillips]

Cedric Roux wrote:
> nice, I love it. I would say "deep," that's the
> closest word that describes what I feel.
>   

Hi Sed, nice to see you here again. :) Thanks for listening to my piece, 
I'm glad you enjoyed it.

> Just to know: how do you make such a piece?
>
> More precisely:
> 1 - do you "play" some "instrument" (keyboard, MIDI
>     control stuff, anything) in realtime or is all this
>     put in a file (with or without GUI)?
> 2 - the sounds in the piece are all computer generated
>     or do some come from "natural" instruments (like
>     cymbals, we hear some of those) that you record
>     with a microphone?
>   

The piece began as an experiment in Wurfelspiele, a use of dice to 
create musical material. I created and edited a step-entered MIDI 
percussion track in Sequencer Plus Gold that lasted 1'47", recorded it 
as a WAV with ecasound, then used rubberband to stretch it to 300 secs. 
The timestretched WAV was then processed in AVSynthesis, using its 
Csound-based tools. So much for the percussion. The other more distant 
instrumental sounds are taken from another piece - a trio for flute, 
horn, and bassoon - that received similar treatment.

Btw, all the sounds in this piece are originally from the 8mbgmsfx.sf2 
soundfont that comes from Creative Labs (IIRC).

AVSynthesis was used primarily as a processor and mixer. The 
timestretched tracks are treated to the same pan control and tuned 
waveguide filter, but with different envelope characteristics. Both 
tracks get the same reverb.

The piece is an homage to Kenji Kawai, Edgard Varese, and Mauricio Kagel.

> Some links with cool readings will do it.
>   

Where to start with AVSynthesis:

    http://avsynthesis.blogspot.com/

HTH,

dp