[microsound] musical structure

[Korhan Erel]

My principles in digital instrument design on the laptop:

- No random processes - everything is determined by the instrument  
player
- No long delays or reverbs that keep on processing the sound even  
after the player has stopped playing. Instrument makes sound when  
triggered and stops when the trigger (nowadays either a Wiimote or an  
iPod Touch running TouchOSC)
- No wide frequency ranges - every instrument can play only a certain  
range of frequencies at any given time - the total range may be wide,  
but you don't hear the full sound spectrum at the same time
- The instrument does not require looking at the laptop screen - the  
player may look at it from time to time, just like a guitar player  
looking at the fretboard occasionally, but the instrument's  
playability should not depend on the player focusing on the screen all  
the time

Since I play almost exclusively with other musicians, most of them  
being acoustic instrumentalists, these principles allow me to play  
with them, to create space for them, to remain silent whenever I feel  
it's necessary....

My sound sources are usually samples (own sound designs, location  
recordings, recordings from my analog setup) being scanned LiSa-like  
(using Live's Simpler instrument). There may or may not be some  
processing of these sounds, usually the processing is nothing more  
than playback speed change and a slight touch of reverb.

Korhan




On 15.Eyl.2009, at 09:12, Kim Cascone wrote:

> I'm gathering some info for a lecture I'm giving about structure in  
> laptop music (read: electro-acoustic, noise, microsound, etc).
>
> What sorts of structure do people use in creating their work?
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