Originally Posted By: dcuny
That drum fighting against the rest of the music is an interesting choice.

That's the "Band-in-a-Box Effect". It will force the piece to be rhythmic, if it can, but where that breaks down, you get what mixtures you get. If this fails miserably, I discard it, but I like the ending effect here.

Thanks for the video link.

Originally Posted By: dcuny
"Hail Mary Amplify" is... well, something else. Sounds a lot like an algorithmic composition.

But it's not! Which makes that a great thing to hear, it means I was using human algorithms, so I must be smart! Or something.

What it is is a 1980s tape of a multitracked Radio Shack Moog emitting slow, random notes with echo and echo feedback and a (real) alto recorder, combined with 2021 analyzed polyphonic pitch information from that sonic mass, chopped up and distributed over multiple MIDI instruments. So the result has incurable randomness at heart but oodles of intention slathered on top of that base. And Lucy had me at "Amplify", I love the way she articulates that word.

Last edited by Mark Hayes; 11/27/21 05:08 AM.