On 01/06/2011 02:05 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Actually it's an old one, recently spruced up for a new video created with >> AVSynthesis. The video hasn't been uploaded yet, but I like the soundtrack >> well enough to post it solo. >> >> http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.mp3 >> >> http://linux-sound.org/audio/QuietlyScatter.ogg >> >> Soft ambient music, not loud. Think "dynamics by Morton Feldman". >> >> Best, >> >> dp >> > > Dave and others, > I've listened to this a couple of times today and enjoyed it each time. same here. Although I need to admit that I've cheated and normalized it to 0dbfs after the first listen. > I'm curious as to any forums where people share the code/setups for > compositions like this. I'd be interested in those as well. > I've played a bit with CSound, ChucK, Super > Collider, etc., but never made much headway on my own. Having access > to some musically interesting code would likely spur my learning. I don't know the details on "Quietly Scatter" but it sounds very much like it was entirely composed (or preformed live) with AVSynthesis. AVSynthesis abstracts the audio-synth and the resulting Csound files are close to unreadable. I tried to extract some instruments from a few soundscapes that I've created with AVSynthesis and it is no fun. An example dumped Csound orchestra+score from AVS look like http://rg42.org/_media/wiki/avs-csound.tgz - you should be able to play it with ./play.sh included in the tgz. It is possible to exchange AVSynthesis .xml files, though (you don't need the video-textures to render the sound). But I don't think you'll learn much from those. The score is [often] quite simple (a sequence of 4 triads or 16 single notes), and usually only one the 3 available synths is sufficient. The "trick" is effects and modulation of the synth and effect parameters - as well as modulation of the modulation :) AVSynthesis makes this quite simple (once you got a hang of the UI). BTW AVS has a very long reverb which can't be disabled but gives the overall composition a nice touch. Nevertheless, while AVS does magic, Dave did a great job composing arranging this piece. ..but again that's something one can _not_ learn by looking at the score or the source, though it can be handy to have a look a at few arrangements. If you like "Quietly Scatter", I recommend to check out Dave's "False Mondrian Studies" (posted sometime in August 2010 on LAU): f.i. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrnknnKVEk and there are a few more of Dave's AVS compositions floating around. Those actually got me really interested in AVS and Csound a few years back. BTW AVS is available from http://avsynthesis.blogspot.com/ - Jean-Pierre Lemoine did an amazing job! 2c, robin > Also, what about mash ups of stuff like this? > > Cheers, > Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
