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For eons, people have enjoyed mapping the musical scale to the color spectrum.

Despite knowing that music is waves in air and light is waves in electromagnetic fields, I decided to do a little research and math.

The color spectrum ranges from 384 to 769THz (terahertz)


By repeatedly doubling a note (say A, at 440Hz) we can find where it would actually fall in the electromagnetic spectrum.

An 'audio sketchbook' - a non-book containing non-sketches, more of a 'samplesite'

Frameworks for Interactive Sound

Spring, 2004

Jeff Feddersen

Genesis put out an album called ABACAB, named for the standard form of many of their songs

Best Song Ever:

"My Six-Year Old Son Hitting Pots and Pans With a Spatula"

Album: Sounds From the Kitchen

Malleus Maleficarum - ©ï@|í5

Find the script to a play. The meter will affect the final music, so keep in mind that Shakespeare may sound somewhat boring.

Ada Babbage: Abba: Aba Cadaba

Heinrich Schenker had some interesting theories of music. One, I believe, was that every euphonious melody begins on the 3rd or 5th and ends on the root.
If you find a melody that does not fit this pattern, by adding or removing notes so that the melody does fit will actually 'fix' the melody and make it sound better.

"Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night!" - El DeBarge

Ursatz or Ersatz?

Found quite a few granular synthesis patches online, including 'sandpaper', 'granola', and 'Lyon Potpourri'. I couldn't get any of them to work satisfactorily, though.

I'm using the Cylon sound I used before. I think it was made by quantizing a human voice, so it's already been processed.

For whatever reason, Max crashed a lot while making these. I've never had that problem before.

The main advantage of granuar synthesis seems to be the ability to separate pitch and speed, which are otherwise always inversely related.

MSP patch to simulate wind and surf

The Music of Wild Birds (from Jeff)

Subtractive Sythesis without Filters (pdf)

Charles Dodge's Speech Songs are the pieces I was thinking of when I mentioned musical pieces based on speech.

Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Skunk

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture

Week 6

I discovered that you can save an audio file as txt format, which then has a single line header (e.g. [ASCII 11025Hz, Channels: 1, Samples: 287448, Flags: 0]) and then one line for each sample with a single value (e.g. 0.00781) on each line.
The numbers must represent both pitch and amplitude.


Here's an original and with all the numbers sorted

Week 5

RM

1 - Bush SotU 1, RM at 500Hz

2 - Bush SotU 2, RM, rising cycle 0 to 1000Hz

(and for comparison, the Gold Cylon leader)