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A cousin to the glitch genre, microsound explores the lower and higher frequencies of the sound spectrum through digital and analog signal processing, granular synthesis, and micromontage. It focuses largely on the arrangement of sound particles within a composition.
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A cousin to the glitch genre, microsound explores the lower...
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Microsound is a genre of electronic music that focuses on the manipulation of very small sound fragments, often at the level of individual samples or even individual waveforms. Artists in this genre use granular synthesis, time-stretching, and other techniques to create intricate and detailed compositions that explore the subtle nuances of sound.
Arrangement of microsounds on an incredibly small time scale. Read more Micromontage is the arrangement of sounds (known as microsounds) on an incredibly small time scale. These sounds usually last from 10 milliseconds to less than a tenth of a second.
A cousin to the glitch genre, microsound explores the lower and higher frequencies of the sound spectrum through digital and analog signal processing, granular synthesis, and micromontage. It focuses largely on the arrangement of sound particles within a composition.
- The Roots of Morphagene
- WWII and The Origins of Tape
- Liberated Tape, French Experimentation
- Try Sound Objects Yourself, with The Morphagene Module
- Meanwhile, in Germany
- Further Reading
Morphagene is an Eurorack synthesizer module, a product of collaboration between Make Noise and Tom Erbe. Make Noise is the modular synth company from the USA founded by self-taught electronic musical instrument designer Tony Rolando. Tom Erbe is a University of California San Diego (UCSD) computer music professor, and author of the famous Soundhac...
It’s Second World War. The Allies are confused. They think they know the location of Adolf Hitler. Yet every time they listen to the broadcast of his live speech, it turns out it’s being broadcast from another city, not the one he’s supposed to be in, according to the intelligence. Maybe his speech was prerecorded? But it lacked the characteristic ...
After the war, Magnetophon was taken to the United States and soon the technology became available commercially. How does it relate to Morphagene? Well, Morphagene’s most basic functions are the functions of a reel-to-reel tape recorder. The recordings are made into reels, which are conveniently stored inside a SD card. The reels can be switched, l...
According to the MakeNoise manual, Morphagene’s time scale for l’objet sonore is Splice and Gene. After making a recording, by pressing Splice button a new splice is created, a fragment of the recording. By manipulating Gene parameter with Gene knob the playback window is changed, from the whole splice (fragment) up to almost inaudible microsound f...
GRM wasn’t the only electroacoustic music studio with tape machines, and Schaeffer and Henry weren’t the only composers who experimented with tape. In 1951, at roughtly the same time GRM was being established in France, Studio für elektronische Musik des Westdeutschen Rundfunks (Studio for Electronic Music of the West German Radio), WDR, was establ...
More on tape techniques: http://designingsound.org/2016/07/michel-chions-analog-tape-techniques/ Advanced tape techniques: GRM: http://120years.net/the-grm-group-and-rtf-electronic-music-studio-pierre-schaeffer-jacques-poullin-france-1951/ WDR: http://120years.net/wdr-electronic-music-studio-germany-1951/ A guide to Pierre Schaeffer: https://granul...
Jan 23, 2019 · Discussing the history and technique of granular synthesis, from clouds, pulsars, and other Curtis Roads terminology to Eurorack modules and desktop synths that employ these microsound techniques.
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