OK So this is based on @Omri_Cohen’s work with phasing sequences, only with a twist. @jeremy wentworth’s Patterns gener change phase by skipping triggers. Again I’ve use 2 instances and copy them so that I’m playing the same sequences but with different clocks.
Jeremy this is essentially the same idea as the multi-play-head sequencer I was talking about earlier. Once the sequencer has multiple playheads I won’t have to duplicate the same sequencer twice.
The recording is pretty hot, peaking from time to time, but it’ll give you the gist.
1st Experiment with Phaseque. This really seems to hang together in some squirrelly way, even though I’m clocking the phase source frequency based out the output of a chance gate.
Having a prominent delay, clocked synced, and the speed & pattern choices happen more or less on beat, means that the chaos seems to stay closer to the grid than you’d think possible. Like it’s 128BPM and it makes sense at that tempo even though the sequencer speeds up and slows down constantly. The BPM readout of the ZZC Clock tempo bounces all over the the place.
So you bought Phaseque and tired of trying to out-Autechre Autechre?
Use it as an audio rate oscillator!
I suppose you might get more sensible and less glitchy results using a unipolar sawtooth, but it’s interesting what it sounds like when you step through the sequences driven by more complex waveforms. What’s really happening is that the sequence has turned into a really messed up waveshaper.
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LOL This has nothing to do with Rack, but it’s a live set I did (in the second floor of an ice cream parlor) in 1996. I honestly can’t remember how I did most of this, except I think I was playing sequences in Opcode Vision and triggering a bunch of rack gear, using a Turtle Beach Pinnacle card in a PC tower as a sampler. Pretty much my whole studio came out – computer, CRT monitor, 12-up rack case, 2 keyboards.
This is great! I used to listen to Bernard Sumner and Johnny Maher doing some similar stuff back then, but you were better.
12 minutes in and hitting some Reggae infused stuff. Definitely not Electronic. But still really good. Sorry, I wasn’t into a ton of electronic music back then, but I did listen to the band Electronic. Nice set!
I once did something vaguely similar using perl PDL::Audio, realizing a score Michael Pisaro, An Unrhymed Chord. Basically, I picked frequencies from a log-normal distribution (effectively the same as a normal distribution in v/Oct space), and overlaid 1000 sine waves with duration between 30 seconds and 15 minutes. Amplitude was inversely proportional to duration. The result was like wind through caves. The recording seems to be lost to the ether…
(PDL::Audio is not fun to work with, but it does allow you to do wacky things like overdub 1000 sine wave tones on top of each other.)
But enough about me, what do you like about me?
By which I mean, I really enjoy this piece you made. Very musical. Simultaneously austere and calm.
this one again. So good.
