Bard, you have:
1. creation state
Play,as a sequencer, a arrangement of samples. applying only small
changes to samples. The same arrangement only with small variations
though noticable.
lets say part one lasts for 3 min or so
2. random state
Complete and utter random. for a much shorter time span. 15 sec.
3. destruction state
part one in reverse.
To this i might add the sample decision algorithm (unless i am not
understanding your first step completely):
4. recombination state
vary some or all of the samples that will be loaded into the
sequencer for
the next iteration. ie load in some or all new samples, so that each
iteration of the universe is different (as is theorized in the
standard
theories on this topic.)
5. goto step 1
so it could break down like this:
1. load in the samples
2. creation state (play back samples with some form of modulation/
effect,
etc)
3. random state
4. destruction state (creation state in reverse)
5. goto step one and repeat, each time loading in an all new or
partly new
set of samples during step 1.
in this way you have your continuous indefinite loop, with each
iteration of
the universe being unique. you could also have the system I mentioned
earlier about users being able to upload a valid sample at any time
for the
sampler to choose from, and kicking out the oldest sample from the
list
(thereby having conservation of the number of samples.) Don't
worry if you
want a sample back in you just have to reload it sometime, and it
will be
among the sample library until it is kicked out based on date. In
this
sense you have continuous creation, the project could be
manipulated at any
time by any user simply by uploading a new sample into the library
for the
random chooser to pick from.
i could see this being a cool installation/exhibit as well, where
users
could record a sample into a microphone and the algorithm
incorporates it
into its library based on the same time/conservation of sample size
idea.
anyhow, just some thoughts. Not sure if I understood your step one
correctly.
-robert
p.s. apparently the reply was rejected by the list as being too
big, so i
deleted a lot of the quoted material. hope this doesnt mess up
anyones
gmail conversations, though i think that is based on topic heading
so it
should work still. if this ends up being a double post it is
because the
list told me it rejected the first one.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Bård Harazi Farbu
<bardfarbu@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Mike
Super!
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