Re: [microsound] arranging & the like

[Jeffrey P Shell <jeffr@xxxxxx>]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 09:08  PM, Tim Mortimer wrote:
>
> do you randomally process & manipulate audio indiscriminately, get a 
> whole pool of audio fragments, & then arbitralily start stringing/ 
> knitting them together? or do you have more of a feel for the whole 
> first & start colouring in between the lines as it were?

yes.

Lately, it's been more of the former as a lot of my favorite audio 
tools are still primarily in Mac OS 9, and I spend very very little 
time there any more.  So instead of really focusing on a composition 
over a period of days/weeks/months, little bits of inspiration and 
processing occur whenever they strike and often later they are culled 
together into a new final composition.

There's usually a singular mood or overall idea present - even if the 
final outcome comes a year later.

Money behind a commissioned work fell away late last year, which was OK 
as it took the pressure of recording off me.  I didn't like the result 
I kept arriving at.  A couple of months after the primary work ended, I 
pulled a lot of the fragments from that time (from a couple of larger 
unfinished works) together into an iTunes playlist just to hear what I 
had around.  And, to my surprise, the fragments I had pulled in sounded 
surprisingly well together.  After some re-arranging, I just used a 
two-track editor instead of a multitrack to put them all together, ease 
the transitions, and edit a couple of rough spots.

The result, 'conswala,buzzl' (UDD)
http://notype.com/rive/static/020/

In short; in this situation, I liked a lot of the smaller bits that I 
had, but could never  get them to come together into the larger picture 
I initially had at the time.  But the ultimate half-planned result came 
out rather strong in my opinion.

But all results, processes, and output varies even within my own 
projects.

J.Shell
Eucci & Co.
http://euc.cx/

Rive, finest recordings since 1994,2003
http://notype.com/rive/

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