Starbuild-tape

July 17, 2009 by zath · Leave a Comment
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At the end of last term I was hard pressed to finish writing a 4-movment sonata for cello and laptop.  Long story short, I have something to upload!

[SND] zath_starbuild-tape.mp3 17-Jul-2009 23:13 2.2M

It’s the “tape-part” for the second movement of the sonata.  The sonata as a whole was called “Take It Back” and investigated the idea of being able to reverse your decisions.  Kinda like Braid, I guess, but far less developed an idea.  This movement is the “Oh, Hey, I Can Reverse Time” moment of the piece.  Or something.

It was created using sampled sounds from my viola, mostly me tapping on it or swishing my bow in the air.  There were also tones from the viola or a piano, manipulated by a neato program called HyperUpic.  There was some additional jiggery-pokery in a program called SoundHack.

It’s… ambient?  And it’s about two-and-a-half minutes long.  Really it’s a wash of sound that belongs behind a cello.  Someday I’ll get a good recording of the rest of the piece and put the complete version online too.

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