> It's a lot of fun Jim -
Thanks, Peter. A visual artist friend sent me
http://vispo.com/jig/images/regina.jpg tonight. I have no idea what it
sounds like, but it looks pretty good. I might send
http://vispo.com/jig/JigArteroid2.mp3 to radio of some sort, dunno.
The generation of the sounds in http://vispo.com/jig/JigAteroids2.htm is
kind of interesting, perhaps. They went through several processes toward
becoming more 'musical'. When you first enter
http://vispo.com/arteroids/arteroids.htm , you encounter a screen where you
are asked to type your ID. If, at this screen, you put your left index
finger on the s key and your right index finger on the backspace key, you
can then use the keyboard percussively. That's how the fourth and fifth
sounds at http://vispo.com/arteroids/sounds/playlist.M3U were generated. I
then took those sound files into Sound Forge and created about thirty-five
1.795 second-long loops. Just by selecting 1.795-second slices of the audio.
And those 1.795-second sounds are what you hear in Jig-Sound.
Those two steps (doing the percussive recording at the ID screen and then
selecting 1.795-second slices of that recording) both introduce rhythm,
disjunction, and musical structure via the loop; loop more or less any sound
and you get some sort of rhythm.
Which suggests that this sort of process might yield some interesting
results with other types of 'non-musical' sounds toward creating unusual
music.
> just a small typo in your link (should be arteroids instead of
> ateroids)."Ateroids" is in fact a Norfolk term for the scars left after
> your piles have been removed.
Px
Ouch! Did not know that!
"Arteroids" does sort of remind one a little of "hemorrhoids". Had to look
up the spelling on that one. A delicate condition demands a delicate
spelling to dissuade and expose thoughtless wit.
But "ateroids" as scars from the removal of piles. Delicate. Very delicate.
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