{"id":1086,"date":"2012-12-02T11:41:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T10:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2012-12-02T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T10:51:42","slug":"the-probability-switch-live-improvisation-along-witch-self-generating-synthesizer-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/the-probability-switch-live-improvisation-along-witch-self-generating-synthesizer-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Probability Switch (live improvisation along with self generating synthesizer patch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1087\" title=\"patches\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/patches.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/patches.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/patches-128x300.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Composing Uncommon Practice Music often involves making &#8220;patches&#8221; of sorts. I consider this a rather beautiful way of working. Much of my music explores structures, and I can connect musical structures directly to patch structures &#8230; which can relate easily to real World structures around me, or to accompanying visuals. This is very useful for improvisation, building installations and composing sound tracks.<\/p>\n<p>There are actually two patches involved in this music: a probability algorithm, patched in my MAX Software, creates MIDI \u2026 which gets changed into control voltages and triggers \u2026 which I route into a patch on my synthesizer to create the &#8220;bass&#8221; and the &#8220;melody&#8221; lines and the very low wind effect in the background. Once set up, this can run forever, leaving me free to improvise along with it on my drum pad controller with some of the samples I collected in Cork City.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded live on 11 tracks: 3 x Modular Synthesizer, 4 x my Cork City Gamelan Percussion samples (bins, gates and doors), and  4 x warped drones, which I derived from my percussion samples by stretching them extremely \u2026 and all of that mixed down to stereo.<\/p>\n<p>The MAX Software can serve many purposes right across almost all the performing and many of the &#8220;fine&#8221; arts. I use it to control hardware and other software via my own custom MIDI code.\u00a0 It looks like I won&#8217;t ever need (expensive!) step sequencers for my Modular Synthesizer development.<\/p>\n<p>MAX patches are visual representations of actual programming code. This patch explores ways of weighting and shifting probabilities.<\/p>\n<p>I posted the music to Soundcloud:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F69664209&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;color=ff7700\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and before I forget: this is an excerpt. The original improvisation was over 20 minutes long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composing Uncommon Practice Music often involves making &#8220;patches&#8221; of sorts. I consider this a rather beautiful way of working. Much of my music explores structures, and I can connect musical structures directly to patch structures &#8230; which can relate easily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/the-probability-switch-live-improvisation-along-witch-self-generating-synthesizer-patch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-downloads","category-modular-synthesis","category-gamelan-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}