Matthew Conroy

#Noisevember! This one I made using a method I've been working on for a long time. It is, code-wise, one of the more complicated things I've done, but it's a bit hard to control. I used a noisy field-recording of some wind chimes for this one. Enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conroy/something-with-chimes

#noise #audio #sound #chimes

something with chimes

A track made from a quite noisy field recording of some wind chimes.

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Nov 22 at 7:41amWeb
Show threadMattia GiovanettiNov 22
@matthewconroy What kind of language/programs did you use for this? It's something related to resampling or it's fm granular generation? The audio taste tells me it's something from SuperCollider, but maybe it's because I'm actually studing it.
Anyway, it a pleasant sound!
Show threadMatthew ConroyNov 23
@mattiagiovanetti Thanks. It's all my own coding in Python. The idea is to cut a piece of sound into equal length pieces and measure some features of each piece (e.g., loudness, noisiness). This then places each piece as a point in a low-dimensional euclidean space. Greedily find the "shortest" path that connects all the points, and use this path as the sequence that the pieces appear in the composition. Here, I did this several times with a short recording of wind chimes with different settings (e.g., piece lengths) to create several layers. I then repeatedly some layers and mixed it all in Audacity. Cheers!
Show threadMattia GiovanettiNov 23
@matthewconroy In Python!? I didn't know that Python could manage sounds in this way. Have you ever think about a graphical representation, it would be nice to have one, like a score sheet as graphical notation, generated by the program it's self.
Show threadMatthew ConroyNov 23
@mattiagiovanetti Python has many packages that can be imported to do lots of things not in the core language. I use soundfile. It's pretty simple: it's just a way to get sound files read into an array, and to output arrays as sound file. https://pypi.org/project/soundfile/ I don't know much about scores. But my code does output a graphic that shows the points (each corresponds to a little piece of sound). Here's one. Cheers!
Show threadMattia GiovanettiNov 23
@matthewconroy Python!? I didn't know that Python could manage sounds in this way. Have you ever think about a graphical representation, it would be nice to have one, like a score sheet as graphical notation, generated by the program it's self.