Re: [microsound] time to kill

[Scott Carver <fscthaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> As I recall the algo for the timestretch was custom-coded in SND I 
> think,
> it wasn't an off-the-shelf existing tool. Listening to the attacks I 
> was
> pretty sure it was done basically by building a dense "wavefront" of
> deeply layered regularly offset long samples with very long fades 
> in/out.
> I didn't get the impression it was actually doing any transient 
> analysis,
> so much of it is droney strings/winds etc. that that didn't matter 
> though.
> Leif didn't do the algo himself, he had a collaborator who helped him 
> with
> that aspect -- he's not a sound artist, he describes himself as an 
> "idea
> artist."

If by "idea", he means "drag a slider to 0.05 and hit play"...
Still, he very well might have exposed the secret behind any number of 
drone/ambient albums from the last ten years.

- Scott Carver


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