EmDee
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Creating audio is as simple as drawing a line through a fractal image. Anyone can do it! This line determines the notes as well as the duration of each note, depending upon the length of each segment of color that it intersects.
These audio files have influences from diverse sources in the avant-garde world. Scales used may sound unusual to some listeners and the range of bent notes can contribute to a mysterious sound.
I tend to call these works 'sound', rather than 'music'. They're not popular and not things that one would listen to more than once, unfortunately.Band/artist history
I started doing this in fall of 1999, looking for something creative to do in my spare time, and I'm usually looking to expand my knowledge and untested abilities. The discovery of two pieces of software, "Mandelbrot Music" and Mag.'s "Chaos von Eschenbach" at that time changed my life. Both originate from Japan, and I preferred their flowing approach to music in comparison to the four-square approach prevalent in most Western fractal and algorithmic music software.
As of 2011, I feel as though I've explored the limits of the software, and I hardly use these anymore and I don't have the same interest in composition as I did previously.Have you performed in front of an audience?Unfortunately, everything is pre-made on a computer rather than performed live. Human interaction plays a role in music, and I'm sacrificing something by trading it for creating music that is more enigmatic. However, not being a performer, I had nothing to trade or lose, and only everything to gain.
Sitting at a computer doesn't provide any special memories. For that matter, a short walk outdoors is more pleasant than creating unusual and unpopular noises on a computer.
Your musical influences
You'll find hints of world scales in everything-- from Chinese to ancient Greek. Sometimes it sounds more like ambient music, new age, or at other times experimental contemporary classical, depending upon the rhythm, scale and instrumentation. The closest thing to this might be the fractal music of Yo Kubota, with Lukas Foss, Oskar Sala, Henry Partch or John Cage as more distant influences.
One of my goals in making new sound is to eliminate the conventional structure and repetition of traditional music (A-B-A, verse-refrain-verse-solo-refrain, etc.), to make it more free-flowing and similar enough to be coherent, but varied enough to challenge the mind at the same time.
The sounds might be demanding to listen to as well as effortless in nature. It is a paradox.What equipment do you use?
Chaos von Eschenbach has been my favorite choice for creating sounds, and I'm one of very few people who uses this software regularly. Once in a great while, I use Mandelbrot Music 32 and Poodles and Flan. All of these programs create a MIDI file.
I use foobar2000 and its plugin, BassMIDI, to convert MIDIs directly to mp3 with the option of using different soundfonts.
Everything is created with 'free' software (proprietary freeware, GPL MIT, open source, etc.). I'd like to thank the programmers for their generosity and I hope that I can pass along the freedom by offering some original sounds!Anything else?
I'm very sad that the creator of Chaos von Eschenbach passed away. I'm forever grateful to you, Mag!
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