@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week:This is a shared-sample project. Create a new piece of music by employing segments from the following three tracks. All were initially released on the great netlabel Bump Foot: The first 20 seconds of “Bongo” off the Aguas Tonicas album Los Desposeídos “Broken Robots” off the Gridline album Red Music “The […]
Disquiet Junto 0051: AudioJournal
I wrote the following code in preparation for a piece for Disquiet Junto 0051: 2012 In 60 Seconds. The instructions for the piece:This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2012. You will then select one five-second segment […]
Disquiet Junto 0050: Telegraph Incantation
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week:This week’s project explores invokes Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase.Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and thedot by a brief one. Use that […]
Use Your Ears
After college I took an internship with a local post-production facility. The engineer I was assigned to was constantly overbooked and I was often given free run of one of the small studio rooms. I had been using DAWs such as Cakewalk and Cubase for several years so I was very surprised to see what they were using. They were […]
Disquiet Junto 0048: Unloop Antidote
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound I have long admired the concept of the Disquiet Junto but have not ever gotten involved until today. This was the assignment for this week:This is a shared-sample project. We’re going to celebrate the dual forces of the phenomenon known as the netlabel and of the Creative Commons license that allows for derivative works. We’ll do this […]
Helping Until It Hurts
While learning Supercollider I have found several cases where convenience methods and syntactic sugar can actually impede the learning process. Below I mention two cases that have caused me trouble in the past. Both these methods are often used in introductory tutorials. My belief is they are used as a way to hook the new user in by providing immediate […]