Many is an app that generates a series of long reverb tones. The reverb time is long enough to sustain a pitch. Use your own sample and choose between five modes to create a continuous (perhaps never-ending) ambient sounds.
My friend and musical role model Starkey released a collaborative album. In technical terms, it is a project extended from ISJS. In aesthetical terms, the project is about restraints and forms. Personally, and most importantly, it is two friends saying ‘hey!’ to each other.
Starkey joins friend and composer Joo Won Park for an EP entitled “Piano Triplets” on NOREMIXES. The release showcases Joo Won Park’s unique supercollider processing over Starkey’s production samples. Three unique pieces, each consisting of only three samples: hardware and software synthesis meets piano in these short bursts of experimentation.
ISJS stands for I-Shim-Jun-Shim (이심전심, 以心傳心), a Korean word for “communicating through the hearts,” or in my interpretation, “empathy.” Featured sounds are recordings by collaborators, students, and family members. I often communicate with them without saying a word. The usual medium to do so is music, but sometimes it is a nod, smirk, sigh, eye contact, or eating in silence. You know.
ISJS app and SuperCollider patch are free and available to download. Please give proper credit if you use it in your project.
A mouse is a sole instrument for ISJS. Improvise the mouse cursor position in three different types of motions for rehearsal and performance.
Pause: Stay in one position. Focus on presenting a recognizable rhythmic pattern
Linear: Move from one point to another in a straight line. Focus on presenting a single predictable change, such as change of timbre or increase in loop duration
Random: Move randomly. Focus on presenting unpredictable, abrupt gestures
Take freedom in the speed of the movement. Find coordinates of the Pauses that would work well. End in a Pause position