{"id":106,"date":"2008-10-15T20:20:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theforgotton.ecistik.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2008-10-15T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T02:20:18","slug":"behind-the-curtain-stochastic-resonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/behind-the-curtain-stochastic-resonance\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the curtain: Stochastic Resonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first two Caustic Reverie albums have had a strong element of the improvisational rather than the tightly structured, step sequencer-based compositions that I have done as TheForgotton. Caustic Reverie has been a chance for me to break out of my writing ruts, and this album was to be an experiment in generative music.<\/p>\n<p>For Stochastic Resonance, I used a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractal-vibes.com\/fm\/index.html\">FMusic<\/a> as a skeleton for the tracks. It is a composition tool that uses fractals and cellular automata to pick the notes, durations, etc. for a song. I messed around with some scales and key changes until it gave me something I liked. FMusic spits out a midi file which I then imported into FL studio. For example, here is the midi used as a basis for <a href='http:\/\/theforgotton.ecistik.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/in-vac.mid'>In Vacuo<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I made some synth patches using vsts like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camelaudio.com\/cameleon5000.php\">Cameleon 5000<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenoak.com\/crystal\/\">Crystal<\/a>, and a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/krakli.wordpress.com\/krakli-free-synths\/\">Krakli<\/a> synths including Karnage and Etequet. I put some fairly wild sounds for each patch and when I went to play it back, it was compete chaos. See below for what this part of the process sounded like. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tindeck.com\/audio\/my\/gnww\/Caustic-Reverie---In-Vacuo--FL-demo-\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tindeck.com\/audio\/image\/b\/gnww\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I then dragged the tempo down and dumped each track individually, doing some additional time stretching using <a href=\"http:\/\/hypermammut.sourceforge.net\/paulstretch\/\">paulstretch<\/a> with different edge-case settings for each to get some nice artifacts and glitches throughout.<\/p>\n<p>The tracks were reassembled in Cubase and I started to mix it down. The mixing phase was interesting, as I was working with it more like a sculpture than a song, muting tracks here, and fading them and out there. I added some ambiance recorded at night on the dock near my place, some pitch shifted cymbals, and even a couple of household appliances here and there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first two Caustic Reverie albums have had a strong element of the improvisational rather than the tightly structured, step sequencer-based compositions that I have done as TheForgotton. Caustic Reverie has been a chance for me to break out of my writing ruts, and this album was to be an experiment in generative music. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[3,289,135,137],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causticreverie","category-music","tag-caustic-reverie","tag-music","tag-sound-design","tag-soundscapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}