[microsound] musical structure

[Damian Stewart]

hi Korhan,

sounds interesting, not unlike my own principles (before i gave up... but 
that's another story).

any documentation online? audio/video?

cheers
d
(http://frey.co.nz/content/music/unreleased/oct_2008/ might be of interest..)

Korhan Erel wrote:
> 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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