I made it to two more days into Jamuary, a straight 11, but then work and life got the better of my intentions. I hope to dig back in. Meanwhile, two unsatisfactory renderings:
▰ 10\31 — “Gran Ensem”: I’ve got this idea of starting a new patch as a seed, and then doing variants in the days that follow. This track represents a new seed: a new first patch. It’s a simple one. A field recording of a school jazz band (recorded from outside the school, on the sidewalk) tuning up is playing backwards, and it’s going through a granular module with six channels. The output of that module then goes through a delay, which turns on and off. We hear the granular output plus, at times, the material through delay, though never just the delay. Toward the end, I manually futz with the delay timing.
▰ 11\31 — “Chao Scillate”: Just a nudge forward of the previous day’s patch. Trying to get some practical control of this particular granular synth module. As is evident, I have yet to achieve the stated goal. Source audio remains a recording of a school band tuning up, as heard from a floor below, windows closed, played in reverse here.