Open Source ILF Collab 2016 -- Album Finished

[oscillateur]

I'm planning the exact hardware setup first, i.e. the process of how the samples will be played/fed to things. I'm leaving how it will actually sound to improvisation and playing with all that stuff... And if what I get sounds like shit I'll think of something else, I guess

[coldbrightsunlight]

I initially liked the sound of sorting out the hardware then improvising, but my eagerness to get going meant I just started doing stuff in the daw. I realised I've got a boring weekend ahead though so I might figure that out and see what I can do!

[D.o.S.]

One more bit of business:

I'm working on the description/copy for the album itself, so if you could email me whatever you want for the liner notes (beyond explaining the process, which I think should happen in this thread) like your name/project name, location, and (if so inclined) a link to your other projects/portfolio/whathaveyou that would be appreciated.

[DRodriguez]

Finally getting chance to dive in.

Initial thoughts, y'all make cool shit. Starting to piece together a kit I'm happy with.

The long ass things are a blessing and a curse, lot's of variety in a similar tone, but so much to sort through.

In the words of Clint Mansell, "it still involves a lot of staring blankly into space wondering what the hell you need to do to make this thing work!!!"

[D.o.S.]

So, with just over a week left, how are everyone's pieces shaping up?

I'm fairly happy with what I have so far -- just need to add a couple of more elements.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Haven't been able to work on it all week, hoping to get it near finished over the weekend though.

[popvulture]

Mine's coming together well in terms of creating voices to use—soon I've really gotta start putting it together into a bigger whole, though.

Thinking back, I can't remember if we originally said that all samples had to be used (as some sort of challenge, I suppose), or if we abandoned that idea once more and more people added to the soup and made said goal a bit lofty. Regardless, I was kinda freaking out about that possibility for a minute and then just decided to use what works for me. Psyched about what I've got so far.

[D.o.S.]

Oh, no, the criteria is that only samples from this project can be used in creating this piece, not that you have to use every sample. You can do whatever you want with them (run them through whatever, shift, etc.) but what I was trying to avoid was someone working on their own shit and taking, like, one thing from the library and saying "here's my contribution."

Also, came across this today:

"How did you develop in the early fifties the notion of using radio as a musical instrument?"
There was a tendency through the whole twentieth century, from the Futurists on, to use noises, anything that produced sound, as a musical instrument. It wasn’t really a leap on my part; it was, rather, simply opening my ears to what was in the air.

https://archive.org/details/CageFeldmanConversation1

[popvulture]

Cool cool, sounds perfect. I'm really stoked to hear what everyone makes.

[oscillateur]

I've got a few days of holidays now so I've had some time to do my hardware setup and I imported all the stuff properly in my RadioMusic module. Playing with it now, to get a feel of what works. I'll record a bunch of stuff when it sounds good enough .

[Eivind August]

Ugh, I keep forgetting about this. Will get to work this weekend.

[D.o.S.]

So is the deadline of May 7 still working for people or does anyone think they will need a little more time?

And From Stockhausen:

"Let's immediately jump to the extreme: if you take a Beethoven symphony and you speed it up, and you are able to speed it up in such a way that you do not transpose the pitch, and we would compress it in time to such an extent that it would last just one second, then you would get a sound that has a particular color, a particular timbre, a particular shape, and it's inner life, which is so highly compressed in time, is what Beethoven has composed, and it has a characteristic sound compared to, say, the compression of a piece of Gagaku music from Japan. If we take any given sound and spread it out, expand it in time to such an extent that it would last 20 minutes, a sound which lasted, when we recorded it, one second or two seconds, then we will have a musical piece -- and it's form, it's large form in time, would be an expansion of the micro-acoustic structure, the time structure, that was in the sound. And there we are."

[popvulture]

So is the deadline of May 7 still working for people or does anyone think they will need a little more time?

I'd say to be safe, giving us through that weekend would be rad.

[D.o.S.]

Yeah that's fair. Final Deadline is now May 9th at, say, midnight.

[jrmy]

Yeah that's fair. Final Deadline is now May 9th at, say, midnight.

Sawheet.