so i fried the logic board on my g4. it was going on its fifth year so even the extended warranty did jack shit for me. at the time of its death i was teaching myself the following programming environments: CSound (using the MacCSound frontend), PD, and Arduino. I was picking up a lot of momentum and things were really looking up for my production. Finally my new hard drive, installed no more than 90 days earlier, was starting to shape up and accommodate my needs as a composer. Now my workstation is a pile of components and casing units. I hope to recycle some of the components into my next workstation, which will be centered around a 15.4" MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, shipping and processing take a long time, so I'm stuck waiting for this thing to come in the mail. At this point I am broke and without the instruments that I have been so devotedly learning to play. I have returned to the piano a bit, and perhaps I'll start composing on it again, although it's so limiting to me at this point. I made this piece on Jenny's 1st generation MacBook using the SC apps I wrote for wavelet decomposition. There will be remixes of this piece in Haar space. This is mostly just raw material compiled in Audacity. I've been making mono pieces because it affords me higher bitrates on this website, and also because the wavelet patches don't do interleaved data. I'm currently working on a family of wavelet mutation algorithms that, much like spectral mutation, result in a blend of two or more signals. This material was meant for use within those algorithms, but they aren't finished so I decided to release this stuff while I work. 210 bpm (barring some ritardandos) and cycles are multiples of 11. some are 33s. the meter gets alternatedly divided by 5's and 6's to compose multiples of 11. Trainlets with formants and Haar wavelets constitute most of the fodder.
