5 Jan
2011
5 Jan
'11
2:34 p.m.
Greetings,
Actually it's an old one, recently spruced up for a new video created
with AVSynthesis. The video hasn't been uploaded yet, but I like the
soundtrack well enough to post it solo.
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.ogg
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman".
Best,
dp
5 Jan
5 Jan
2:41 p.m.
On 01/05/2011 02:34 PM, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings,
Actually it's an old one, recently spruced up for a new video created
with AVSynthesis. The video hasn't been uploaded yet, but I like the
soundtrack well enough to post it solo.
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.ogg
I think you meant:
http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.ogg
I needed to turn up the volume quite a bit - but I like it a lot!
Spooky and uncanny. Thanks for sharing.
robin
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by
Morton Feldman".
Best,
dp
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3:03 p.m.
Robin Gareus wrote:
I think you meant:
http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.ogg
Oops. You're right, thanks for the correction.
I needed to turn up the volume quite a bit - but I
like it a lot!
Spooky and uncanny. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the note, Robin. You're right, the volume is very low. The
piece should be heard in a very quiet environment.
Best,
dp
3:04 p.m.
On 01/05/2011 02:34 PM, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings,
Actually it's an old one, recently spruced up for a new video created
with AVSynthesis. The video hasn't been uploaded yet, but I like the
soundtrack well enough to post it solo.
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.ogg
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman".
ah, you mean "sempre pianissimo", and then a sudden violent outburst of
"dolce mezzopiano"?
/me is looking forward to the piece
3:08 p.m.
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
On 01/05/2011 02:34 PM, Dave Phillips wrote:
You got it. I'm not sure this one ever gets to the level of mezzopiano.
...
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman".
ah, you mean "sempre pianissimo", and then a sudden violent outburst
of "dolce mezzopiano"?
/me is looking forward to the piece
Did I mention that it's rather quiet ? Headphones or a near-silent
environment might be best to hear everything in it.
Best,
dp
7:03 p.m.
On 01/05/2011 03:08 PM, Dave Phillips wrote:
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
lovely! although it _is_ rather quiet and did not reveal its full beauty
unless listened to over headphones in a near-silent environment.
is it just me, or is there this huge choir near the end, murmuring
"re-do me in ambisonics" in unison? you know, a few seconds after that
guy shouts "submit me to lac2011"?
On 01/05/2011 02:34 PM, Dave Phillips wrote:
You got it. I'm not sure this one ever gets to the level of mezzopiano.
...
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman".
ah, you mean "sempre pianissimo", and then a sudden violent outburst
of "dolce mezzopiano"?
/me is looking forward to the piece
Did I mention that it's rather quiet ? Headphones or a near-silent
environment might be best to hear everything in it. 
3:04 p.m.
Hello Dave!
Quietly scatter is a god name for this piece, both quiet and scattered. I
like it as a soundtrack for the title. Thanks for passing it on, even before
the video. Sounds a bit like under water sometimes, both due to sounds and
effects used.
Kindly yours
Julien
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5:45 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Greetings,
Actually it's an old one, recently spruced up for a new video created with
AVSynthesis. The video hasn't been uploaded yet, but I like the soundtrack
well enough to post it solo.
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.ogg
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman".
Best,
dp
I'm in a fairly noisy room at the moment. I heard nothing at all
playing the mp3 version. Either it was very quiet, my brain is very
scattered, or both.
- Mark
5:57 p.m.
New subject: new Csound piece (corrected links)
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Hi Mark,
Corrected URLs :
http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.ogg
But they're still pretty quiet. Headphones are recommended, or a very
quiet room.
Best,
dp
Greetings,
Actually it's an old one, recently spruced up for a new video created with
AVSynthesis. The video hasn't been uploaded yet, but I like the soundtrack
well enough to post it solo.
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.ogg
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman".
Best,
dp
I'm in a fairly noisy room at the moment. I heard nothing at all
playing the mp3 version. Either it was very quiet, my brain is very
scattered, or both.
- Mark
5:57 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
My bad luck. I did an update to KDE this morning that reset PCM audio
back to 0. Once I found that I have audio, quite good audio, lovely
audio, the sounds Dave Phillips driving interesting ambient
synthesizer audio.
i like it Dave.
Cheers,
Mark
Greetings,
Actually it's an old one, recently spruced up for a new video created with
AVSynthesis. The video hasn't been uploaded yet, but I like the soundtrack
well enough to post it solo.
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.ogg
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman".
Best,
dp
I'm in a fairly noisy room at the moment. I heard nothing at all
playing the mp3 version. Either it was very quiet, my brain is very
scattered, or both.
- Mark
6 Jan
6 Jan
2:05 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Greetings,
Actually it's an old one, recently spruced up for a new video created with
AVSynthesis. The video hasn't been uploaded yet, but I like the soundtrack
well enough to post it solo.
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/Quietly_Scatter.ogg
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman".
Best,
dp
Dave and others,
I've listened to this a couple of times today and enjoyed it each time.
I'm curious as to any forums where people share the code/setups for
compositions like this. I've played a bit with CSound, ChucK, Super
Collider, etc., but never made much headway on my own. Having access
to some musically interesting code would likely spur my learning.
Also, what about mash ups of stuff like this?
Cheers,
Mark
4:10 a.m.
On 01/06/2011 02:05 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
same here. Although I need to admit that I've cheated and normalized it
to 0dbfs after the first listen.
Greetings,
Actually it's an old one, recently spruced up for a new video created with
AVSynthesis. The video hasn't been uploaded yet, but I like the soundtrack
well enough to post it solo.
http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.mp3
http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.ogg
Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman".
Best,
dp
Dave and others,
I've listened to this a couple of times today and enjoyed it each time. I'm curious as to any forums where people share
the code/setups for
compositions like this.
I'd be interested in those as well.
I've played a bit with CSound, ChucK, Super
Collider, etc., but never made much headway on my own. Having access
to some musically interesting code would likely spur my learning.
I don't know the details on "Quietly Scatter" but it sounds very much
like it was entirely composed (or preformed live) with AVSynthesis.
AVSynthesis abstracts the audio-synth and the resulting Csound files are
close to unreadable. I tried to extract some instruments from a few
soundscapes that I've created with AVSynthesis and it is no fun.
An example dumped Csound orchestra+score from AVS look like
http://rg42.org/_media/wiki/avs-csound.tgz - you should be able to play
it with ./play.sh included in the tgz.
It is possible to exchange AVSynthesis .xml files, though (you don't
need the video-textures to render the sound). But I don't think you'll
learn much from those.
The score is [often] quite simple (a sequence of 4 triads or 16 single
notes), and usually only one the 3 available synths is sufficient. The
"trick" is effects and modulation of the synth and effect parameters -
as well as modulation of the modulation :) AVSynthesis makes this quite
simple (once you got a hang of the UI). BTW AVS has a very long reverb
which can't be disabled but gives the overall composition a nice touch.
Nevertheless, while AVS does magic, Dave did a great job composing
arranging this piece. ..but again that's something one can _not_ learn
by looking at the score or the source, though it can be handy to have a
look a at few arrangements.
If you like "Quietly Scatter", I recommend to check out Dave's "False
Mondrian Studies" (posted sometime in August 2010 on LAU): f.i.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrnknnKVEk and there are a few more of
Dave's AVS compositions floating around. Those actually got me really
interested in AVS and Csound a few years back.
BTW AVS is available from http://avsynthesis.blogspot.com/ - Jean-Pierre
Lemoine did an amazing job!
2c,
robin
Also, what about mash ups of stuff like this?
Cheers,
Mark
5:15 a.m.
Robin Gareus wrote:
It's all composed. AVS does include a realtime UI but I don't make use
of it. Jean-Pierre's work shows off AVS's realtime interactive capabilities.
The program includes a variety of composition interfaces. Most of my
work uses one of the sequencers, with occasionally the CMask UI.
On 01/06/2011 02:05 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
http://www.csounds.com
Best place to start. Code, compositions, instruments, blogs, etc.
I'm curious as to any forums where people
share the code/setups for
compositions like this.
I'd be interested in those as well.
I've played a bit with CSound, ChucK, Super
Collider, etc., but never made much headway on my own. Having access
to some musically interesting code would likely spur my learning.
I don't know the details on "Quietly Scatter" but it sounds very much
like it was entirely composed (or preformed live) with AVSynthesis.
AVSynthesis abstracts the audio-synth and the
resulting Csound files are
close to unreadable. I tried to extract some instruments from a few
soundscapes that I've created with AVSynthesis and it is no fun.
Hear the man. If you're looking for a readable score generator, look
elsewheres.
An example dumped Csound orchestra+score from AVS look
like
http://rg42.org/_media/wiki/avs-csound.tgz - you should be able to play
it with ./play.sh included in the tgz.
It is possible to exchange AVSynthesis .xml files, though (you don't
need the video-textures to render the sound). But I don't think you'll
learn much from those.
I do a fair amount of detail work through the XML file. A neat trick
lets me write to it during a session, so I can fine-tune settings as I go.
Nevertheless, while AVS does magic, Dave did a great
job composing
arranging this piece. ..but again that's something one can _not_ learn
by looking at the score or the source, though it can be handy to have a
look a at few arrangements.
Jean-Pierre refers to AVS as an instrument. It takes a while to learn
how to play it.
For me, it's a rich composition environment. I still feel like a
beginner with it - there are instruments and effects I haven't tried yet
- and it remains my preferred Csound environment.
BTW AVS is available from
http://avsynthesis.blogspot.com/ - Jean-Pierre Lemoine did an amazing job!
Amen to that. Ditto to the amazing work from the Csound and OpenGL
development communities.
> Also, what about mash ups of stuff like this?
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
Mark, after looking up "define: mashup" I have to say I'm not sure. :)
Other Csound users are on this list, they may be able to tell you.
Best,
dp
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