Octophonic Electroacoustic Music, available in ADAT and 8-channel AIFF formats.
Mistrals has received numerous performances throughout the U.S. and U.K.
Mistrals arose from an interest in Shepard tones, and almost all of the
material is generated by granularized Shepard tones. Nevertheless, the influence
is largely indirect, and the Shepard tones are utilized as source material for
filtration, rather than in a direct manner. Spatialization is an important parameter
in this composition; the velocity function, however, greatly supercedes the importance
of the position function.
As with many of my works, I tried to use the available software tools in less
conventional ways. Much of electro-acoustic music seems to be centered around
kludging together standard recording industry equipment into a format that is
convenient for our purposes; the (mis)use of the ADAT and 8-bus mixer to produce
octophonic music is a prime example. I produced the aggressive middle section
sounds by misusing tube/tape saturation and rectification plugins. By accelerating
the phase vocoder through a fairly continuous sound, I was able to create timbral
changes.
- Mistrals is available in octophonic AIFF format with MAX/MSP patch
for playback.
Packet includes program notes, and speaker placement. 161.9
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