Re: [microsound] technological stamp

[Hrvatski <sheket@xxxxxxxx>]

>this is a *profoundly* inane question, and i'm hoping somebody might be
>able to answer it for me off-list, but can anybody describe for me what is
>the technical process being used in the closing minute or so of disc 2,
>track 8 of bernard parmegiani's "violostres"? the sounds i'm referring to
>are sort of laser-gun-sounding attacks with an almost watery quality to
>them. i'm not a musician and i have no intention of "ripping off" whatever
>that process happens to be, i'm just fascinated by the quality of these
>sounds. i'm interested in how he might have gone about making them -- and
>whether there might be a recognizable "technological stamp" that would
>allow one to decipher that.

Ah, Exercisme 3, God I love that piece...

Amazingly tolerable for 1986...

It sounds (to me) like a combination of running the signal through yr
standard-fare resonant filter (through a sawtooth wave oscillator, rapidly
changing period) and possibly dramatic tape-speed modulation effects. The
photo (at the centerfold of the booklet, albeit it's probably from 5 years
later looking @ the Mac) shows some industrial strength patch-bay
oscillator/modulator/analysis sets that could be jury-rigged to achieve
this.

A monster, Parmegiani, absolutely. not just in his timbral approach, but of
the sense he made of it all. I'm still amazed that we can slow down & speed
up sound, he's on another plane entirely... -Våt

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