Week 4 Forum - Presentations II

This week I presented some music I have been working on this year. The only finished track was the first song I played, which unfortunately was very bad quality. I didn't know until I pressed play that it sounded like that and if there wasn't a word limit on this blog I'd explain why. Anyway, if you want it again at good quality visit www.myspace.com/mattreverie.

I didn't plan on having a debate with the lecturers about whether I would use Max/MSP to create my music. At the end of the day it's not a simple answer. Max/MSP and SuperCollider open huge doors to sounds you can't create using a generic sequencer. The problem though is that it takes a lot longer and it's a lot lot harder. My philosophy is to create what ever sounds good. It doesn't matter what you use, aslong as you use it well.

Lecturers and students know that my aspirations as an artist is to be a commercial success. I appreciate Christian's understanding and acknowledgment of what I am trying to do. It feels good to know that although he is an academic he can at least acknowledge that what I am doing is still artistic even if it's not intellectual.


[1] Matt Reverie. "Music Technology Forum: Semester 1 - Week 4 - Presentations II". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 27th March 2008.

CC3 Week 4 - Sound Generation

This week I created basic AM synthesis. I have used sawtooth waves creating a harsh electro sounding bass. The frequency is different each time the code is run due to the rrand function.

(
 {  
LFSaw.ar(
  freq:   rrand(1, 100), 
  mul:  { LFSaw.kr(
                                                               freq: { LFSaw.ar(LFSaw.kr(4, 0, 1000, 1000), 0, 0.1) },
        mul: 20,
        add: 1
                             );
     }
  );
 }.play;
)

[1] Christian Haines. "Creative Computing: Semester 1 - Week 4 - Sound Generation". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1st April 2008.