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Re: [microsound] hhtp: new tracks
I've been following Andrei's work for a couple years now, and it is
always improving and continuing to impress. The two things that sell me
the most: his use of randomized, algorithmic processes to generate
unique sounds, and his use of free and open source software to do so.
The "Tragmatics" pieces especially seem to bridge the gap between the
ease-of-use everyone seems to expect from sound software these days, and
the more rigorous attention to detail that using free and open source
software which is constantly under development demands. "Tragmatics" is
essentially an automatic sound generator, of the type that Marcus Popp
claims his "Ovalprocess" piece is [but in fact is not]. It produces a
new set of sonic combinations each and every time he turns on the
machine, without any artistic intervention in the process once it has
started, and it samples from its own output along the way, giving it a
trajectory with memory, so to speak.
"Tragmatics" is sublimely simple to listen to, but I am sure it was
work-intensive to produce. Andrei's software of choice, Pure Data,
requires a kind of forethought which most twist-the-VST-knobs, "user
friendly" music apps have skipped over on behalf of the end-consumer
already. Still, the audio and video on the hhtp site and on the CDs
which Andrei has released tell quite enough about working in a system
which has no presets. Textures and tones slide by each other in an
unpredictable and entirely non-idiomatic fashion...fragments from the
past recurr without making themselves cliche...shapes appear and
dissolve, entirely outside the influence of their creator...
keep fighting the good fight, Andrei.
best,
Derek
Andrey Savitsky wrote:
>cohm
>errorotic
>the institute (based on the novel of Evelin Domnitch)
>gingerbreadhead
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>at http://hhtp.org
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>fill free to download it :)
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