Category Archives: IMPART SUBCLASS
Bells Week 2
Hey!! the Bells group is working in the control room again today 🫡 Justin has a cool resonator working in Max, Crystal’s working on figuring out how to use KICASS, and Dana is working on polishing the structure of the … Continue reading
And We’re Off, with Scratching and Soothing
Once we heard the title, one big thing jumped out: they’re opposites, right? What’s more, the two words suggest very different kinds of sounds. Scratching? White noise, sampled scraping noises, and general non-pitched (again, noisy) sounds would make up a … Continue reading
Quarantine Patching
Having written many pieces inspired by spectral contents of different interesting sounds, wouldn’t it be cool if we can do music like that, but improvised in a live environment? This simple patch deals with the frequency component of such a … Continue reading
Letting the conception inform the techniques!
But first we need a concept.
Testing out the Ass Interpreter
The Ass Interpreter gives us 3 streams of info: 1) distance between 2 points; 2) angle of one point to another; 3) speed of 1 point in an instance. We whipped up a patch to test these three modes of … Continue reading
Recording Samples
We really were working. Definitely no hockey watching/gambling/faking accents.
Making tools for Tracking
Made 2 bpatchers to track distance tracking between 2 points with distance compensation (thanks Keith for the advice!) and the angle of a line made by 2 points (to the positive side of the x-axis). Ready to have it completely … Continue reading
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