Four Voice Canon #6 (homebrew
sampler)
Date: 1986
Place: Mills College Center for
Contemporary Music
Instrumentation: 68000 single board S-100
computer, 2 MB of memory, A/D, D/A converters, 68000 assembly code, early
version of HMSL. Generated and performed in real-time.
Sounds: Mill College Frog Pond, Anthony
Braxton (baritone sax), Jody Diamond (Central Javanese rebab), Kurzweil 250
sine wave. Each sound about 4 seconds long (2 MB), rising over its duration,
with the exception of the frogs (who were not digitally controllable).
Elements: Duration (in number of bytes),
starting location in memory (stochastically selected by the computer, higher
and higher for each voice)
Comments: "Found sounds" from the
Mills soundscape; intentionally raw sampling procedures (no zero-crossing,
filtering, smoothing, etc.); reasonably close golden mean ratios. On The Theory of Impossible Melody and Cold
Blue CD.
Four Voice Canon #6
(stochastic
start times in memory)