Re: [microsound] hhtp: new tracks

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

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
>
>at http://hhtp.org
>
>fill free to download it :)
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