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[microsound] klanghausen project
Klanghausen - a microsound project
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I was talking with some other microsounders during the 'Microsound' chapter
2 book club meeting last Sunday. While leafing through the book to answer a
question my eye fell on the diagram for Stockhausen's piece "Kontakte." In
the diagram an impulse generator is fed to filter-banks, waveshaping
transfer functions (pre-amps), reverbs and tape feedback but given the
arsenal of plug-ins available on the web an impulse soundfile can be fed
through a wide range of processors. The impulse schema struck me as very
elegant and could form the basis of a microsound project.
so, in the spirit of providing the list with a summer project as well as
paying homage to Herr Stockhausen (who we all owe a great deal to) I offer
this invitation:
- use the Impulse.aiff soundfile in the 'Klanghausen' project folder
(download from the microsound server) or make your own impulse sound file in
Peak, Cool Edit, PD or Max/MSP. First build a library of sounds created by
sending your impulse through various types of plugins. Then create a new
piece using this library.
[feel free to mangle the samples you create with the impulse soundfile]
some general guidelines:
- only one piece per member
- the piece should be no longer than 5 minutes
- upload finished work to the microsound hotline server for others to hear
and remember to announce to the list when you have uploaded the piece
[microsound hotline server: microsound.synthesizer.org
also, see http://www.bigredh.com for downloading a PC/MacOS hotline client]
***IMPORTANT *** - if you don't already have a password to the microsound
server you must FIRST get a password from me to upload and download files
from the server and you have to be a listmember in order to get this pswd
again, this invite is to microsound list members ONLY
*get the impulse.aiff file here-> path: "Uploads/Klanghausen/Impulse.aiff"
*put your piece here -> path: "Uploads/Klanghausen/myFolder"
- remember to name your folder something unique and not 'myFolder'
- oh yeah, please make your folder a 'drop box' by naming it like this:
'myFolderName drop box'
and NOT 'myFolderName dropbox' or myFolderName drop-box'
spaces are ok when making a 'drop box and ONLY when making a 'drop box'
folder...
the deadline for submissions (submission means posting to the list that you
have uploaded a piece into the Klanghausen folder) is September 1st 2003
some technical guidelines:
- post only 128kbps/44.1kHz/stereo .mp3 files
- first make a folder within the "Uploads/Klanghausen" folder and upload
your finished work there
- post to the list that you have uploaded your piece (include the name of
the piece)
please do the following when putting files on the server:
- use filetype suffixes in your filenames...such as "mynewpiece.mp3"
- do not use spaces or non-alphanumerics chars in filenames
- the use of underscores_in_filenames_are_ok
- example of bad filename: "#my, #new, #piece!.mp3"
- example of good filename: "myNewPiece_mynamehere.mp3"
(sans quotes of course)
this makes things more clear for everyone
ALL styles of microsound are welcome...
PLEASE post all comments, suggestions and ideas *to the list* and NOT to me
directly...
extra stuff:
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from "Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kontakte and Narrativity" by John Dack:
<http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/SAN/Dack.htm>
'In a lecture entitled The Four Criteria of Electronic Music, Stockhausen
used the electronic sounds of Kontakte to illustrate the following concepts:
1 Composition in the musical time continuum.
2 The decomposition of sound.
3 Composition of several layers in space.
4 The equality of musical sound and noise."
----- Original Message -----
From: <Arelar33@xxxxxxx>
To: <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:51 PM
Subject: [microsound] klanghausen project
> Hi,
> I read a request on here recently for info on the klanghausen project and
I
> deleted the responses, so can I ask again for that to be mailed to the
list?
> Cheers
> Rob
>
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