MATRIXSYNTH: The Nightly News With M. C. Escher


Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Nightly News With M. C. Escher

Buchla 200e track on Chris Muir's 200e B-Sides

"This one is pretty much a one-trick pony, but I think it's a pretty good trick. I plan on revisiting this idea soon. The title is a reference to this sort of sounding like a news theme of a certain era, and the fact that the progression seems to always be rising. It was almost called 'The Nightly News with Roger Shepard', but I think fewer people would have gotten the reference."

2 comments:

  1. Nice! I definitely catch the Nightly News theme vibe. Did you use Gyre or the 250e to sequence?

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  2. I used my Gyre app. Amongst its tricks is one where I can push intervals into an Interval Accumulator, which adds them together, and outputs notes. An example: to climb the circle of fifths, I would just push in the number of half-steps in a fifth (7) over and over again. I can feed a variety of interval "shapes", which consist of short patterns of intervals, into the accumulator.

    The Interval Accumulator has several ways of wrapping notes when the accumulated note exceed some range. The wrap mode I used here was a modulo operator.

    -Chris

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