Bay (full length version)

The full-length version of my works Bay and Bay at night can be downloaded (or streamed) from the Internet Archive in mp3 and ogg formats.

Dial my number

As an exercise in the use of the table and phasor opcodes, I wrote an instrument which makes the sound of a telephone dialing a number. The number to dial is pre-stored in a table. The instrument actually generates the touchtones a real telephone would make (in fact, if you play the sound generated close to the micro of a phone, it will actually dial the number!).

I'm posting this instrument (CSD) just as an oddity, but perhaps you can find a musical use for it.

Bay at night

I continue experimenting with the algorithm used to generate "Bay". With minimal modifications in the ngen code, I generated a new piece with a completely different mood, much more atonal and dark.

You can listen to a 4 minute excerpt (in ogg-vorbis format), or download the source code (CSD) if you want to generate the complete 30 minute piece. This time I'm not releasing the ngen source, because the algorithm is virtually the same than the already published in "Bay". However, if interested, leave a comment.

Free e-book on electronic music

The book Theory and techniques of Electronic Music, by Miller Puckette is freely available for download or reading on-line. It is still a work in progress, and some chapters are to be written, but at present the material is very useful to adquire a background on the field of electronic music

From the introduction:

The ideal reader of this book is anyone who knows and likes electronic music of any genre, has plenty of facility with computers in general, and who wants to learn how to make electronic music from the ground up, starting with the humble oscillator and continuing through sampling, FM, filtering, waveshaping, delays, and so on. This will take plenty of time.

It is a general text on digital sound processing, not specifically addressed to csound. In fact, all its examples are developed for Pd (Pure Data), which is no surprise, since Miller Puckette is also the author of this software. However, it should be not difficult to translate the Pd examples in the book to csound code, since the underlying concepts are the same. I'll try and see :-)

My first csound piece

I'm releasing "Bay", my first csound realization. It is an ambient piece, in the Brian Eno style, but with an instrumentation more like Steve Roach. The notes were generated algorithmically, using as starting point some ideas and code by Anthony Kozar. For more information you can look at my code.

You can download a zip archive containing the sources, or listen to a three minute mp3 excerpt (3Mb)

Let's start!

I'm starting this blog, in which I plan to post my advances with csound, as well as links to csound related material (instruments, composers, music, news...)