Rakkad

5 ‘ 48



(3 mB)

Rakkad is written with an unusual combination of soothing environmental ambience along side rapid abrasive sound-objects. Said sound-objects are applied through generative algorithms designed by Nick Collins. The long ambience sweep provides an underlay to the spikes of discord. These two sources provide the instrumentation of the work and over the period seem to resolve, though never in intentional consonance. While the generative section runs of its own accord, the ambient section is performed “live” – by a computer musician. The structure of the piece takes on a subtle golden section, but does not develop to be any more climatic at one point than another. In some ways Rakkad is a corroboration of Musique Concrète with Spectral Music. The overall musical feeling of the piece is something of a psychotically prompt movement from one idea to the next, while simultaneously remaining almost boringly static. There is no decent explanation as to why this feels like the psyche of our age.


Rakkad.mp3 (8 mB) | Documentation (Rakkad).zip (56 kB) | SuperCollider Patch.zip (4.1 mB)

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TwentEway.Spas

.research project.



TwentEway.Spas marks the development of many creative ideas and sketches that I have grown into one work. Its idea is to map digital audio information to the parameters of graphic information – to create a multimedia work in which the different medias (sound and vision) are connected via the same, or similar data streams. I have related this to two different programming languages, one that I am at a novice proficiency with, SuperCollider (audiosynth.com), and another that I was completely new to, Processing (processing.org).

TwenTway.spas.zip (1.2 mB) | Documentation.zip (124 kB)

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