impulse by snwv
A room was covered in bubble wrap, and I used four room mics into Pure Data. Each mic went through a pitch shifter, was panned in quad, and went into two delays. All parameters (transposition, chunk size, pitch shift delay, pan, 2-bus delay, regeneration, delay level) were set randomly by the system, at intervals that were themselves updated randomly. At times, the system would tip into oscillation.
Tracklist
| 1. | bubbleroom | 8:32 |
| 2. | the swarm | 12:16 |
| 3. | preparation of the voice | 15:28 |
| 4. | masculine-feminine | 20:03 |
| 5. | full disclosure | 14:32 |
| 6. | the system | 12:48 |
Credits
Thanks to Wall-to-Wall Studios for organizing the event doing the bubble wrapping, and inviting me to do the installation. Well done.
License
All rights reserved.
Maurice Rickard is a musician, sound artist, and Deep Listening Certificate holder based in Pittsburgh. snwv is his project to create ambient environments from finely tuned oscillators and other sound sources as well (guitar, microphones, feedback). Some patches use mostly oscillators, some use delays, some use controlled amounts of randomness. Results range from gentle ambience to chaos.