Computer Music

Dear Friends,

i finished this piece in year 2003 , in oure school studio for electronic music,

i used two programs to do it (MetaSynth) for transformations and (protools) for montage.

its a great freedom and a lot of new sounds micro tones, effects and other nice things :(

sounds used was taken from my other instrumental pieces or sounds like a twist-off lid throwed on the floor...

sometimes people talk about this music as new music and forget that has more than 100 years now :

http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/

this is a part of the piece better if you use headphones or good speakers :

computer music 2003 mp3

You're absolutely right about electronic music being old, though computer music is not quite that old. Don't forget that the first electronic instruments were for the most part emulating existant instruments or drawing upon existant principles. The Theremin was one of the earliest instruments to break the mould - it had an entirely unconventional way of playing. The Ondes Martenot, which makes its sound by the same electronic principle, is far more useable than the Theremin, because of its keyboard/ribbon combination.

Computer music is an interesting genre in its own right, though. With hundreds of programs available (I like programs like Pure Data (amongst other open souce programs) myself), the creativity is almost endless. Sometimes I think computer music composers are not limited enough and create musical tripe.

Anyway. Your music. It's interesting. Are you asking for reviews on it? If so, can I move it to the appropriate forum? If not, that's fine. Software/hardware discussion is fine.

hi David , you are right , maybe appropriate forum , would be better ...

can you please tell me more about good software to make music , but on pc with windows ?

thank you

i'll download pure data tomorrow and try to work on it , good night

Pure data is at the best of times confusing! You have to work on creating patches from scratch, or use and edit patches that other people have made. There are hundreds out there - and also a lot of support for using PD itself. Have fun!

As far as programs go for Windows, I don't know which ones work on what OS. However, I use Pure Data, Audacity (occasionally), Ardour and Rezound, amongst others. The only Windows specific packages I know are things like Cubase, Acid, ProTools and SawStudio.

Yeah there's the wonderfully opensource REAPER www.reaper.fm It is the best in the world. Get it.

Hello David!

Hello Stefan!

Reaper is not opensource, but is freeware. When version 1.0 is released, the license will become shareware.

Only available on windows. Bad.

However, it looks pretty nifty. Vaguely Ableton Liveish.

I don't mean Ableton Live. I mean Acid.

I liked this work immensely - certain I recognise some of the sounds as your compositional style.

The "episodes" are sustained long enough to let me assimilate them. Continuity is never a problem.

It's a field that I experimented in some years ago when tape machines were just giving up their hold to disc-based AWs - with a lot of outboard boxes and processing through analogue synthesiser modules (that I built from scratch with Curtiss' C.E.M. chips that made certain things far easier than discrete components! and op amps) Their was something imminent about the real-time physical involvement with this stuff that seems lacking on computers. I can sit on the sofa, a train, a plane and write this stuff but...I don't know, something lacks....

Anyway, superb.

M