[LAU] [Music] Visiting Cloud-Cuckoo-Land

Hey hey, Visiting Cloud-Cuckoo-Land: https://youtu.be/UOBQH3ZpCIE This piece is influenced by an atmospheric game soundtrack, with beautiful, quiet sound design. The game is called Stray and the piece is "Ant Village": https://youtu.be/n-TFhq9dGhc (Theme starts at 3:12) Technical notes: this piece was entirely recorded and mixed in Csound, only the final "mastering" was done in Nama/Ecasound. Thanks to the ArchLinux maintainers of the Ecasound package for updating the software! All melodic sounds were specially created for this project. The strings and "mandolins" using Karplus-Strong synthesis using Csound wguide1 opcode. The drums were ready-made User Defined Opcodes with the idea of "drum machines" as can be found in some of the flexible digital and analogue hardware, for example the Elektron, new Roland MC-* or Korg Drumlogue. The melody, bass and rhythm instruments use classic virtual analogue synthesis, while the marimba/bell sound is based on Csound's marimba model with the addition of resonant filters (phaser2). Composition/writing: the melodicy lines and the drums were recorded in MIDI and then, using a Python script, transformed into a format ready to read in Csound. I implemented a simple sequencer in Csound, reading its data from f-tables. This gives the basis for another family of UDOs making it easier to use that kind of looping sequencer. It allows to handled MIDI notes, velocity and a degree of randomness/humanisation. The melodic lione was played polyphonically and then split into four monophonic voices. The voice-lines were alternated by the Python script, so that the melody switches, not by note, from the first voice to the second. The same happens with the third and fourth voice. That way, the lead lines suggest two - or three - motives, only coming together as the intended melody, when al four voices play at the same volume. -- Again, this Python code gives rise to a more organised and feature rich tool. When all is said and done, I just hope you enjoy it. Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c Don't worry, you're gonna be alright, But Cinderella's got to go <3 (Britney Spears)