Re: [MMM] Re: A proposition, AVANT-COLLABTIME

On 07/06/07, daniel_anthony_stearns <daniel_anthony_stearns@...> wrote:
>
> send anything you'd like in mp3 format--he simpler the better i
> think,or at least the more monophonic the better.thanks,daniel

I won't be able to contribute musically, but just a suggestion: since
people's contributions will most likely be not monstrously long, maybe
you should suggest flac instead of mp3? That will enable you to do
better time/pitch stretching, etc., and it means when you release the
result as an mp3, the source materials won't have been
double-compressed.

Just a thought, can't wait to hear the result!

Chris Bryan

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Bryan" <chris@...>
wrote:
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> On 07/06/07, daniel_anthony_stearns <daniel_anthony_stearns@...>
wrote:
> >
> > send anything you'd like in mp3 format--he simpler the better i
> > think,or at least the more monophonic the better.thanks,daniel
>
>
> I won't be able to contribute musically, but just a suggestion:
> since people's contributions will most likely be not monstrously
> long, maybe you should suggest flac instead of mp3? That will
> enable you to do better time/pitch stretching, etc., and it means
> when you release the result as an mp3, the source materials won't
> have been double-compressed.
>

Alright. Dr. Mixenstein, how about this one?

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hsstraub/musik/5stomp_44100.flac

Scale: 5EDO, starting on (12edo-)E. It starts on E because with this
base tone, I can (or... well... let's say, I am practicing to) play a
near-5edo scale on the harmonica, which I am planning to use.

Sound: simple csound instrument - a sample of my feet walking up a
staircase, sent through a bandpass filter, with 2 parameters: cutoff
frequency (determining the audible pitch) and band width.
The melody is generated from orbits of two-dimensional affine
transformations in Z5xZ5 - like I had done in my
piece "Asimchomsaia"; this time, however, the transformations are not
in the pitch/time space, but in the pitch/bandwidth space (hence some
kind of what Linas Plankis called "two-dimensional tuning"...).
I am, BTW, planning to add some more orbits to make the piece longer.

Here is a very rough pre-version of how the whole thing could sound
(harmonica still missing):

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hsstraub/musik/5stomp_preversion_2.mp3

- but maybe you got better ideas!
--
Hans Straub

On 6/5/07, daniel_anthony_stearns <daniel_anthony_stearns@...> wrote:
> should anyone want to send me any mps via my mail or you-send-it or
> whatnot and whatever, with the idea that i'd add to it and assemble
> them into something (hopefully) almost cool---i'm up for it. I can't
> assure the results won't repulse ,but i am quite comfortable working as
> a doctor Mixenstein stitching together bits of this and that.
> Anyway.......what i'd hope for would be as simple --i.e, one instrument
> recording at a time, and i'm open for any instruments....even 100
> guitars. So, let me know it this seems remotely interesting to
> anyone..could take many directions or none at all, but it will
> mostlikely be not quite normal (i also like the idea of them being
> standards for the disassembling and reanimating......ok, let me know!
> daniel
>
> http://www.myspace.com/danstearns

Well, since my fretless bass is in disrepair, and I don't have a real keyboard, there's not much I can do... but you *could* send me an mp3 of a track and I could put vocals to it, as long as it's rock, soul, blues, country, that sort of thing. I've got basic sound recording and processing equipment on the computer, and little else.

(I'm working on getting back in the Austin music scene after a long hiatus. I need to get that bass fixed REAL soon.)

~D.