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Re: [microsound] faking skipping cd



This method is used on Rooms track "slow facial twitch"

on the free mp3 album - "exhibition # 1" @ Audiobulb Records

www.audiobulb.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kassen" <kassen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: [microsound] faking skipping cd


> From: zero zero-1
>
> > with the ability to burn your own cds, and the ultimate true discovery
of
> what has
> > been termed here as  'failure', why on earth would you bother????
> >
> > get a shitty cd player.  throw your cds on the ground.  EXPERIMENT for
> gods
> > sake!!  or for the sake of this
> > ultra-compacting-find-ways-to-do-what-can-already-be-done aestheticly
> boring
> > way we all do things.....maybe burn your laptop.
>
> With all due respect, a part of synthesising the sound of existing
phenomena
> (like violins, the human voice and skipping cd players) is understanding
how
> it is generated. Even if i have a human voice and a  mike around, i still
> think it's workings are interesting and i still think trying to emulate it
> through synthesis is worthwhile or at least eductional.
>
> How does the cd player lose track, what does the error corection do? where
> does that click come frome, why does it repeat in loops that stay the same
> for a while, then go on to another loop that might have a different
length?
> Just because cds are cheap doesn't mean emulating a failing one isn't
> interesting. I personally find trying to emulate existing sounds makes me
> understand sound better and greatly increases my skill in creating sounds
> for imaginary instruments. I too would be quite interested in a text that
> would explain how to emulate this, even if I wouldn't dream of uing that
> effect like that in a composition.
>
> To be honest, i found your response to Lorenzo a bit rude. Perhaps you see
> no value in emulation but that's no reason to imply Lorenzo isn't
> experimenting.
>
> yours,
> Kas.
>
>
>
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