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Title: new release by me;
Post by: josh_down on July 08, 2010, 01:36:33 AM

http://joshdown.co.uk/

"How To Spot Ghosts" ... very very very quiet, peaceful and calm algorithmic compositions. think john cage/morton feldman... open your windows, turn it down to a very low level of volume, and see what happens!


http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4116995

listen to this if you can't be bothered with the download

Title: Re: new release by me;
Post by: Self-sain on July 08, 2010, 03:40:54 AM

it satrts slow... but its kinda of relaxing

Title: Re: new release by me;
Post by: josh_down on July 08, 2010, 10:16:21 AM

i guess you can say the whole thing is fairly slow. fairly being an understatement

Title: Re: new release by me;
Post by: iKero-chu™ on July 08, 2010, 03:20:37 PM

Nice.
I like.
Goob jobbbb :3

Title: Re: new release by me;
Post by: Switch on July 08, 2010, 11:33:40 PM

I like it!

Very spacey, mellow and calm. You have a good sense of the direction you want to get out of your chords. I look forward to hearing the rest of it!

any thoughts on harmonies or other parts? rhythm perhaps?

Title: Re: new release by me;
Post by: josh_down on July 08, 2010, 11:46:22 PM

i'll explain it.... XD...

the entire piece is based on two arpeggios... Maj9, Min9... so in C... C,E,G,B,D... and the minor C,Eb,G,Bb,D

the piece will begin with either one of those arpeggios, and whenever the algorithm plays one of them, it chooses to put the sequence of notes up or down either one or two semitones, and changes the time gap between both each note in the arpeggio and in between an arpeggio being played by a very small division of a second, again either up or down. timbraly, all 5 of the pieces are the same, but each and every time the algorithm is activated, the piece will be totally different.

that's how "Dawn 1-5" works... "How To Spot Ghosts" is a bit different;

each time a task is played, it chooses to play a single (i think) 10 second long note from a bank of chromatics... low, low-med, high-med, high. the higher notes are much more likely to be played than the lower ones, and have a very short "wait" time, meaning the note is played and the another task is quickly selected.

How to spot ghosts works much better as a long track, and i thought that Dawn worked much better as just a collection of short recordings of the algorithm. ideally i'd have liked to record both of the pieces in a room with natural acoustics, but at present i have no microphone or useful interface to use.

thanks for taking the time to listen guys, and thanks for the positive comments