Folderol wrote: Thanks for listening, Will, you're a brave fellow. :) They are indeed experimental, and I'm sure they're not to everyone's taste. Both are accompaniments to videos, but I thought they stood on their own all right too. Definitely intended to be atmospheric. Some aspects of Aura Amara are reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road. Best, dp

Robin Gareus wrote: The title translates to "Ascension of the Blessed Nude". Aura Amara means "bitter wind". Eventually. Recently I've found some good settings for video conversion with WinFF, so I'll experiment a bit and see what I can churn out. I won't put up the videos if the quality sucks. The videos are also experimental. As the piece stands now it's totally raw and unedited. I could easily pop it into Ardour and add new stuff. I'll have to think about it, and I may decide to do it in Csound itself. Have you read anything by McCarthy ? He's strong stuff, but The Road is probably his most easily-approachable work. No Country For Old Men and Blood Meridian are also recommended, but be aware that his work can be extremely violent at times. There are passages in Blood Meridian that out-do Clive Barker and the splatter-punk and extreme horror writers. These pieces are (almost) pure Csound and were composed in the AVSynthesis program, which itself is made of two major parts, a Csound composer and an OpenGL shader control panel. I can switch off either one, so I can use AVSynthesis as it was originally designed, or I can use it as a standalone composition environment for Csound. No text entry is involved, btw, it's all done with graphic controls. Ascensio Nudae Beatae is built from seven layers, five of which have integrated sound. Two layers use a wave-cycling instrument and a phase-vocoder "blur" effect. One layer uses an Analog and a Vosim instrument (instruments are pre-built in AVSynthesis) along with a spectral arpeggiator. The last two layers use a Pluck instrument, one gets a Phaser effect, the other is treated by another phase vocoder effect, a "smoother". A global reverb is also applied. Btw, I use a version of Csound compiled for double-precision math. The original audio output is very high quality, better than the soundfiles indicate. AVSynthesis includes a sequencer that can be configured for deterministic or random output, that's what I use to arrange the pitch materials for a piece like the Ascensio. No further audio work was done to these pieces, they're "as is" straight from AVSynthesis. Thanks for listening, Robin, and thanks for your interest. Btw, feel rfee to use this material in any way you like. I haven't decided on a license yet, but it'll cover free re-use of the pieces. Best regards, Dave Phillips