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cartesian contusion
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spectral counterpoint / cluster logics. vocal waveform and percussion. no overdubs.
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Genre
Electronic • Experimental Sounds
Charts
Peak #909
Peak in subgenre #47
Author
3 of Spades
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none per se
Uploaded
January 02, 2008
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MP3 4.7 MB • 128 kbps • 5:06
Story behind the song
the initial rhythmic motives were designed in a standard "drum machine" style editor I created. I placed a bandpass filter after this so I could select areas within the spectrum to focus on. the result I ran through a 60 TET filterbank across the entire audible spectrum from 16 hz - 32768 hz , triggering synthetic wavelets I designed for synth percussion. this forms the percussive motives. I used these motives to trigger longer wavelets derived from an expodec envelope and my own voice. the filterbank I used for this layer was 12 TJT, and similarly I used a bandpass pre-filter to tune the register of the result. this forms the melodic/cluster motives. I did some additional spicing to the percussion using soft-clipping and a very subtle amount of waveshaping, eq-ing, etc. the two layers are not simply 'mixed', but the signal from the percussion actually modulates the resulting melodic signal by a sort of stereo ring-mod, where the modulating signal determines the stereo position of the carrier. then I mixed and peak-limited the result. The only post-production I did was to cut off the few seconds of silence from the beginning and convert to mp3 in audacity. everything else has been exclusively hand-written by me.
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"Ə" phoneme.
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