Structures Sonores Rediffusion

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"Structures Senores Rediffusion is an ambient, original music collage experimentation created almost entirely on the Korg R3 synthesizer. The piece explores ring-modulated sequences, non-synchronised rhythms, chords and surreal/ethereal pads placed within a structured framework. Within the multitrack session, a rhythm track created on the Hammerhead Rhythm Station was processed with a heavy reverb. To this an atonal melodic sequence loop was placed. This is a dual-timbre sound whereby each oscillator is ring-modulated by its neighbour. Each timbre is further ring-modulated creating double ring-modulation and sequenced, pitch-transposed and played as a short arpeggiated block whose swing time is skewed to a significant degree. Short "Balinese" ring-modulated variations on the first sequence were added at regular intervals. An additional short ring-modulated sequence was spliced onto an asynchronous synthesized percussive sound and this arrangement was repeated at every third "Balinese" ring-modulated sequence. Next came an organ timbre whose waveforms were not tuned to strict octave intervals. Another ethereal organ-like sequence loops twice. This timbre is a strange and beautiful chord-like shimmering tone created by the Korg R3 DWGS waveforms tuned to non-octave intervals. Finally, a chordal string pad was placed underneath all the other tracks and stereo-panned the full 180 degrees approximately every minute. The piece concludes leaving only a dark pad bass and the original double ring-modulated sequence fading to a dark decay. The music was inspired from listening to atonal Buchla synthesizer sequences and attempting to recreate these using the Korg R3 double ring-modulated possibilities. The background visuals were produced by animated graphic modulations created by Adobe Premier WaveWarp function. Several orders of linear modulation were applied to the first layer backgrounds. Second layer moire imagery was then superimposed over these visuals. A third video layer has been keyed over all of these including symbolic graphics, and a reworking of the Associated Rediffusion television logo for this synthesizer exploration."