Track list:
1. 449CM003
2. 1502MW35
3. 731JB664
4. 350HP853
5. 807GSJS1
6. 850DKRP3
7. 651BJWBW
8. 506HF172
9. 425RM372
10. 501JHJA5
11. First Texture Music Demonstration
12. Study 11 - live at The Lab, San Francisco
13. Seed files for the 10 Studies
Released December 13, 2008 in conjunction with the First Texture Music Demonstration at The Lab, San Francisco.
Each piece in this collection was composed using a simple, synthesized, seed sound lasting only a few seconds. There are no "real world" sounds, samples, musical instruments or recordings made with a microphone in these pieces. Everything is being synthesized 100% from scratch using Adobe Audition 1.0. Through a progressive process of synthesis, each seed was used to generate the complex of parts making up each piece.
The initial idea of the live demonstration was that I would compose one such piece in REAL time so the audience could see everything that went into it. Because this process can take a considerable time, depending on the speed of the computer, this proved impractical to do with a live audience. Instead, each of the first 10 pieces was composed in less than an hour. What that hour entailed was generating the seed material, synthesizing all subsequent material from that seed, and then composing the structure of the piece as it was being played back. I achieved all this using Adobe Audition 1.0. After the seed and supporting material was generated, I created a silent track of several minutes which would then play out as I dragged individual sound files into Audition's multi-track editor, frantically drawing envelope curves and panning controls IN-REAL-TIME, before those parts were played. This process is analogous to trying to punch a player piano roll as it is moving in real time just ahead of the piano actually playing it.
To this end, these 10 Studies were rehearsals for what I did for the live demonstration at The Lab. During the live demonstration, I had audience members select two numbers, between one and ten, to determine form which rehearsal piece my source material would be selected. I then used the individually synthesized sound files, from those selected pieces, as a basis for an 11th piece which was assembled ("composed") in real time.
Listen carefully and you will hear similar sound materials of Studies 4 and 9, in this demonstration piece.
This special digital edition contains:
- the 10 Studies
- the lecture / demonstration
during which I encounter a technical problem at the very beginning of Study 11,
- the 11th "live" Study (now presented as a single track),
- the seed files from which the 10 Studies were derived played back to back as a
single track.
This album was available from the irr. app. (ext.) web space, ICR Distribution (in the UK) and also in digital format on bandcamp.
- the 11th "live" Study (now presented as a single track),
- the seed files from which the 10 Studies were derived played back to back as a
single track.
This album was available from the irr. app. (ext.) web space, ICR Distribution (in the UK) and also in digital format on bandcamp.