Sunday, September 12, 2010

One Note Csound Composition

This is a piece I wrote tonight for a Csound assessment. We had to create a "one note composition", which basically means you code together an instrument with a number of processes/set events that occur within the space of "one note".

Csound uses terminology associated with traditional music: the orchestra, the score, notes etc. for structural elements. This is really misleading and confusing to new users. This isn't really "one note". It is just a synthesiser with a number of different modules that create music based on initialisation values only - there is no live manipulation.

The actual sound is created by a big bank of sine wave generators and grain2 (a simple grainwave synthesiser in csound) running through a few reverb/delay effects.

12/09/10 by Liam Dodds

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