not Quite Studie II

I did this a while ago and just remembered this morning. I was doing a little presentation on using Patterns in SuperCollider and thought I might be able to make a little mock Studie II with one pattern. It’s definitely nothing as wonderful as Stockhausen’s piece, but I think it’s humorously close.

Here’s the real deal: Stockhausen’s Studie II

Here’s my code:


(
SynthDef(\notQuiteStudieII,
{
arg freq = 440, amp = 0.5, mults = #[1, 1, 1, 1, 1], sustain = 1;
var sound, filt, mix, env, attack, decay;
sound = Formlet.ar(WhiteNoise.ar(0.1), freq*mults, 0.01, 0.05);
mix = Mix(sound);
attack = Rand(0.01, 0.99) * sustain; //attack.poll;
decay = sustain - attack;
env = EnvGen.ar(Env([0, amp, 0], [attack, decay], \lin), levelScale: 0.5, doneAction: 2);
Out.ar(0, FreeVerb.ar(mix, 0.9, 0.9, 0.1) * env ! 2 )
}
).memStore;
)


(
Pbind(
\instrument, \notQuiteStudieII,
\freq, Pwrand([Pwhite(100.0, 1000.0, 1), \rest], [4, 1].normalizeSum, inf),
\mults, Pif( Pkey(\freq) < 500.0,
Pfunc( { [ {rrand(0.5, 0.6) } ! 5 ] } ),
Pfunc( { [ {rrand(0.5, 7.6) } ! 4 ++ 1 ] } ),
Pfunc( { [ {rrand(0.5, 8.0) } ! 4 ++ 1 ] } )
),
\dur, Pif( Pkey(\freq) < 650.0, Pwhite(0.1, 0.8), Pwhite(0.5, 1.9), 1),
\legato, Pif( Pkey(\freq) < 375.0, Pwhite(0.5, 1.2), Pwhite(0.9, 1.9), 1),
\amp, Pwhite(0.1, 0.5)
).play;
)


coincidence or friendly cosmos?

I drive from Hillcrest in San Diego to Mission Viejo on Fridays to teach some bass lessons. Today’s drive was approximately 12 seconds shy of John Eliot Gardiner’s recordings of Beethoven’s 3rd and 4th Symphonies combined.

There’s something very satisfying about that.

YouTube

I’m about 400 videos behind the times, but this is an amazing youtube channel.

LFA Photos

The Lucerne Festival Academy put up some really nice photos of performances from the festival here.

Since…

NYTimes: How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect

Very fun and short article. The last sentence:

Still, the new research supports what many experimental artists, habitual travelers and other novel seekers have always insisted: at least some of the time, disorientation begets creative thinking.

Along with begets, I would add “can be the result of.”