waveform bitmaps

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These are cropped screencaps of the .wav file from "Triangle Wave Modulation." The patterns are similar to what you see on an oscilloscope but narrower on the horizontal axis. Because this is Cubase on Windows, the bells and whistles factor is pretty low - the idea is to generate these sound files on the fly with just enough resolution to see them but not so they slow down the music processing while rendering. Saved as a bitmaps, the files are converted to GIFs without losing any detail; each is around 20KB - that's efficient. One thinks of Argyle socks, and Vasarely paintings, but it's just a diagram of a warbling bloop.

tweets on anonymity

models of celebrity culture & spin are ingrained in the lowest levels of artistic plebedom. E.g., self promotion thru publicity photos

for every young cindy sherman there are 100 bad britney spears publicists

paraphrasing germaine greer: we should aspire to be the faceless artisans who built the cathedrals

"Triangle Wave Modulation"

"Triangle Wave Modulation" [mp3 removed]

This is an electronic music piece, or sketch. Some combination of exponential FM, LFOs, and envelope generators is making what sounds like an arpeggiated sequence that is fairly musical (this is all hardware). Previously have used MIDI notes from the computer to "impose" a tune on hardware-generated glop but here the reverse is happening: the MIDI makes the musical sequence go all wonky and atonal. You can hear when those notes come in and leave. Some knob-turning is happening while all this is going on but mostly it's just letting the machines do the work.

"Accidental Scales"

"Accidental Scales" [mp3 removed]

The beats are all from Reaktor's GoBox sampler/sequencer (which I've used a few times lately) and those chromatic (?) scale blorts that come in at :45 are made with the modular synth -- FM patches that I'll probably never duplicate once I unplug the cables.