[sdiy] Jean-Claude Risset, Shephard etc.

[Greg]

Unfortunately, Fred died last year after a brief battle with cancer. His 
website is still up and you might find what you're looking for there. Fred 
Nachbaur's website is at www3.telus.net/dogstarmusic/

Greg


At 10:57 AM 2/03/05, Harry Bissell Jr wrote:
>Fractint can save the random output data, and some
>list member at the fractint group wrote some prog. to
>convert it to a midi file
>
>A member by the name for Fred Nachbauer (sp?) did
>a CD using this data.  I think a google search would
>fetch his site, and you could ask him.
>
>Fractint gives some VERY nice sequences...especially
>if
>you set the tuning parameters to some scale OTHER than
>chromatic. I like the pentatonic scale myself... Too
>bad the sound card sound, and polyphony sucks so bad
>(almost as bad as a bbd :^).  Notes get cut off by new
>notes. Sending a Midi file to a REAL instrument would
>sound a lot better, and so trippy :^P
>
>H^) harry
>
>--- drheqx <drheqx at heqx.com> wrote:
>
> > Which patterns are you speaking of?
> >
> > Like using a fractal image data to generate
> > repetitive patterns?
> >
> > I wonder if you could take an output file from
> > FracInt and feed that
> > into a sequencer of some sort. I would not want to
> > wait around for that
> > sequence to finish.
> >
> > Experiment: Connect various automotive signal
> > flashers to a car battery
> > and listen to them drift in and out of synch.
> > Different brands,
> > different speeds. The more you have, the more
> > complex the patterns. You
> > could use them to trigger sounds instead of just
> > clicking away, but the
> > clicking is very interesting by itself. I have yet
> > to record that.
> >
> > heqx
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> > [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf
> > Of anthony
> > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:26 PM
> > To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> > Subject: [sdiy] Jean-Claude Risset, Shephard etc.
> >
> > So I was reading a little about the work of
> > Jean-Claude Risset and I was
> >
> > wondering if anyone knew of some cool free(ish)ware
> > to generate those
> > patterns. I'm still digging. Maybe I'll find
> > something. But I was
> > thinking
> > maybe it would be cool if one could do it in the
> > analogue domain. It
> > sure
> > seems possible with te right kind of modules
> > patched.
> >
> > Just a quick explanation to anyone who has no clue
> > what I'm talking
> > about
> > (keeping in mind that /I/ don't know what I'm
> > talking about.) It's the
> > sounds generated by certain repetitive patterns.
> > This is a gross
> > oversimplification. Anothier thing is illusory
> > sounds kind of like
> > Shephard
> > tones.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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