In music, a form helps us to remember. We notice patterns in a form. When we recognize patterns displayed in time, the past makes sense. I invite listeners of Octaves in BPM 120 to focus on patterns and sequences. Listen to the order and combination of elements. Melodies and harmonies are not relevant in this piece as all pitches are Gs. I hope that the order and manner I present five sounds with different characters are delightful nonetheless.
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Piano Triplets – Park & Starkey
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.
Bandcamp album description
RMHS
Remove Music, Hear Sound. There are many things to hear within a single sound. There are more than melody, harmony, or rhythm that one can listen to and ponder.
Tracks in RMHS feature eight sounds made from an algorithm. Feel free to contact the artist if you want a version with different length, interval, or fundamental frequency.
RMHS app and SuperCollider patch are free and available to download. Please give proper credit if you use it in your project.
- Download RMHS App (for Mac OSX) here
- Download SuperCollider patch (for Mac & PC) here
- Computer Music Practice Examples – RMHS
DistMod – for software synthesizer with 18 knobs
DistMod is an audiovisual work for an original digital synthesizer and 18 knobs. The synthesizer was created in SuperCollider by manipulating the waveform shape of the frequency modulator. The synthesizer also has sample-and-hold feature so that the user can smoothly change from a glissando to arpeggio. The piece was written as a demonstration of my electronic music composition class project. The project is called One Sound, and the students are asked to define and create a “single” sound, gesture, or idea.
The patch for DistMod ( www.joowonpark.net/distmod ) can be downloaded at the following link: https://app.box.com/s/uo7z4d0zqpfmrsu5xm1byu9vkyd6ox8w
Instructions:
- Open the downloaded .scd file in SuperCollider (available for free at http://supercollider.github.io/ )
- Select Menu->Language->Evaluate File
DistMod is a second synthesizer of the -Mod series. The first one, BiQMod can be found at www.joowonpark.net/biqmod