More wings...

Jacky wrote:

> Very beautiful 'fusionesque' work Bill!

Thanks, guess I do have a soft spot for prog rock.

> Now when you tuned this with your algorithm, are you taking all of
> the tonal instrument spectrums into account to make it maximize
> consonance moment to moment? I suppose the timbres are generally
> harmonic - right, wrong?

OK. All the timbres ("bass" and "synths") are primarily harmonic.
I kind of cheated a bit by assigning all voices to the
"same" timbre, which was (in the program) harmonic with
7 partials, and a decay of 0.95 for successive partials.
Thus I did the adaptation before assigning the voices,
and so they dont match up *exactly*... On the other hand,
this way I could listen to the adapted (pitch bent) performance
and assign voices by ear (I probably auditioned 8 or 10 basses
before I found the "right" one, and dozens of synth sounds.)

> Neat bass!

Guess I chose the right one!

Im hoping to have a version of the adaptation program
available sometime in the not-too-distant future.
In my early adapted pieces I was using Matlab to do the
processing - this is cumbersome, non-real-time, and
user hostile. In Wing Donevier (and in Local Anomaly, if
you remember that one) Ive been using an implementation in
Max that is (almost) real time.

--Bill Sethares

Bill!

I'm away from home with the laptop, so I'll have to listen to the music later, but...

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., sethares@e... wrote:
> Im hoping to have a version of the adaptation program
> available sometime in the not-too-distant future.
> In my early adapted pieces I was using Matlab to do the
> processing - this is cumbersome, non-real-time, and
> user hostile.

Great term: "user hostile"!

> In Wing Donevier (and in Local Anomaly, if
> you remember that one) Ive been using an implementation in
> Max that is (almost) real time.

Cool - do you know if they are any closer to a PC version of Max? One of my close colleagues here in SD is married to Peter Otto, who (at UCSD) is doing ground-breaking work with spacialization and related mixing work with Max. She remarked at a concert the other night that Peter was home "working on some new flocking algorithm", and I've heard some of his real-time spacialization work - it is *awesome*.

Cheers,
Jon