[LAU] Spandril - music made with Supercollider

[mark hadman]

Thanks for the kind words, SxDx and S.M.

The sound source for spandril-22 is indeed a short sample of an
acoustic instrument - a violin. This is pitched down and granulated,
then fed through a resonant low-pass filter and some distortion. As a
sound engineer (primarily) I really enjoy this process of
'composition' which consists of tweaking the parameters of various
units (and the lfos controlling them) until I get a pleasing result.

Generally speaking I judge a composition's success by the number of
times that I want to listen back to it myself - in the case of
spandril-22 it seems to be popular with other people too. Which is
nice.

mH
http://soundcloud.com/spandril

On 13 November 2012 16:40, S. Massy <lists at wolfdream.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:31:52PM +0000, mark hadman wrote:
>> http://soundcloud.com/spandril
>> Ambient / industrial drones, mostly made using supercollider.
>>
>> It's been the best part of a year since I first posted about this, in
>> which time I've released at least 10 new tracks, started incorporating
>> some acoustic and analogue electronic elements and done a few live
>> performances.
> Thanks to Sed who pointed out the alternate repository, I was able to
> listen to a few of those pieces. I didn't click with many of the pieces,
> but, then again, that's not really the kind of music I listen to on a
> regular basis. However... I rather enjoyed spandril-16, which I thought
> incorporated many interesting elements and textures. But I'm just
> speechless about spandril-22: was that made in honour of Halloween? If
> so, it's definitely a success; this piece could serve as soundtrack for
> any horror short! I especially liked the way you played with dynamics
> and saturation. Here, in my monitors, even with the sound turned way
> down, the effect is downright creepy and *very* intense! It's not
> exactly easy listening, so I don't know whether I would listen to it on
> a regular basis, but I'll definitely keep it around as an example of
> some seriously powerful electronic music. Well done!
>
> Cheers,
> S.M.
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