Recorded on 20 Jul 2020 & 20-22 Jun 2024. Mixed and mastered on 22 Jun 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.
I like to have the computer improvise in one of the ways they do best – randomization & modelled systems (in this case bouncing balls) – because it provides unexpected surprises that push my imagination to places that improvising with other people has never even remotely approached. If I am lucky, my end results are often filled with many layers that are not so obvious on the first few listens.
Process notes –
On Thursday night –
I loaded up Bitwig with a variation on Polarity’s Markov variations Grid patch to guide Arturia’s MS-20V for a few minutes and exported.
On Friday, I imported what I did in Bitwig into an Ableton Live track and also imported a guitar improvisation I did with a Floyd Rose Speedloader Discovery into a Digitech Vocal 300 in 2020. I pulled three different sections from the guitar improvisation into three MIDI tracks in Live – each triggered by a copy of Dillon Baston’s Inspired By Nature Bouncy Notes and each with a different version of Monolake’s Granulator. I let the defaults stand and let the computer do the rest. I included a copy of Sketch Cassette on each track as a tribute to the 4-track cassettes I used in the past and to underscore my choice to only use four tracks on this piece.
On Saturday, I bounced the guitar tracks into audio, stretched each one and finessed fades. On one guitar track, I included a copy of Cycling 74’s Fragulator, just because it rhymes with Granulator.
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This original version of “The Girl With The Flash Frozen Mirror” was submitted as part of **Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute?.** The Assignment: Respond to a prompt from George E. Lewis – “Why do we want our computers to improvise?”
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