<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 27, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Ken Restivo wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Several years ago, I hacked together a very simple PD patch to do this.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I used it on this cheesy little track (definitely *not* a microsound peice):</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/184/0/phoneme-dance-0.3.3.ogg">http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/184/0/phoneme-dance-0.3.3.ogg</A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> I like this very much.<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Credits for the samples used here:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.restivo.org/blog/archives/dance-of-the-phonemes">http://www.restivo.org/blog/archives/dance-of-the-phonemes</A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> -don't like this so much... the woman's lips look a little frosty. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;">"Trying to learn SuperCollider, ChucK, CSound, etc… why bother when all this stuff is so fucking easy in PD?"</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;">"I’m getting a new perspective on composition by learning to build them from small, discrete chunks of phrases, as is the way loopers work."</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"> -because of the sound , possibly?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"> Ok. I'll go away before I start acting like someone's dad...</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"> nice composition!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"> Bill</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Basically, I cut up human speech into discrete phonemes, then played them randomly, triggered by MIDI in a rhythmic fashion. I was thus able to approximate via software the sound of a rapper freestyling.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-kenn</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">microsound mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:microsound@microsound.org">microsound@microsound.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound">http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>