14 Aug
2006
14 Aug
'06
1:24 a.m.
Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
I have no idea how to make a patch that would insert pivot tones somewhat randomly.
i am finding the concept of 'boredom' to be very, very programmatically fruitful lately. presumably i know (or can find out) all of the notes that are currently playing, or have been playing for the last little while. have a boredom counter that increases faster when the changes are fewer. when boredom reaches a particular threshold, pick a chord target and start inserting pivot tones... increasing the frequency as the boredom approaches the (higher) chord-switch threshold (of course, the new tones would interact with the boredom counter - oh i do love feedback :-))...
hmm. i have a centralised rhythm machine at the moment that runs constantly and bangs about 50 different sends at different periods and different phases (n, 2n, 3n, 4n, 2n-then-3n-then-3n, 3-2-3n, 3-3-2n, etc). it's attached. it's based on a book called 'Hearing in Time' by Justin London, which is wonderful and has informed my ideas about techno no end.
so have a similar thing for assigning tones -- rather than each instrument having its own tone input, instruments just listen to a master tone assigner, that has a bunch of different sends (eg t-root, t1, t2, t3, t4) for the tones in order of diminishing importance/salience to define a particular harmonic context.
inserting pivot tones would just then be a case of changing the output of eg t3 or t4 to be the pivot tone, in a controllable manner.
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f r e y
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