(Danse de Sainte Acouphène. Ière partie.)
http://thedarkdesign.free.fr/zak/Saint_ ... ce-One.mkv
(alternative formats:
https://youtu.be/aXid9qnV238
http://thedarkdesign.free.fr/zak/Saint_ ... ce-One.mp4
http://thedarkdesign.free.fr/zak/Saint_ ... ce-One.ogg
)
Composer: Loki Harfagr
Conductor: Loki Harfagr and Saint Tinnitus
Description: Painting my tinnitus in sounds to be accessible to others.
Tracking was made with Ardour 6.7
Mixing and Mastering made with Mixbus-32C V7.0.150
tracks are:
- One finger-picked SG guitar take on DI, using direct in excellent KPP-OD and KPP-preamp plugins
- ACE Fluid Synth. (Orchestral bass strings, 2 tracks)
- Monique (mono synth, 2 tracks)
- Fluida (choir synth, 1 track)
- Noize Mak3r (noize synth, 1 track)
- Sitala (Drum sampsynth, 1 track)
- Video goofing concept: Dark Design & St-Tinnitus.
- (Graphic & video tools: Gimp, projectM-jack, apitrace, ffmpeg, Olive)
*** WARNING *** to all tireable persons: long boring text (yes, even more) ahead starting next line:
Since @sunrat was curious about the making of the video part I'll add there the few details I remember on how I did what then, it'll be a hazard description as it was made quite on the fly while reusing the wheels and reinventing ways to complicate their use
I usually take a fast go at some scripting in sed/awk/bash to generate some half-random clips with ffmpeg but on that specific Saint-Tinnitus piece I wanted to represent more specifically the inner vibes, somehow translating the sound frequencies up the spectrum from Hertz to TeraHertz
First, I decided to concentrate the idea on three feeding sources and selected then exported independently (using Ardour) the tracks from Sitala, Orchestra and guitar, then it was time to use them for the Tera-transmutation!
I then remembered some visualizations I found nice, seen years ago which used "MilkDrop" so I searched for it and found out there was something called projectM, build and installed it (I had to build it since I wanted to use its Jack extension) put the selected tracks through it (using qjackctl) and started to select the presets that seemed close to my aims in the gigillions presets there already exist all around.
Finally selected four of them, mogrified a bit some parameters and ended up with three softly modified presets, one for each "feeder" (for completion the initial presets were "Geiss - Game of Life", "martin - another kind of groove", "Aderrasi - Dark Matter (Converse Mix)" and "Bmelgren & Krash - Rainbow Orb Peacock (Lonely Signal Gone)" cheers to the original makers
Then it was time to crunch the bytes so for each of the three feeding tracks I played them (using
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mpv -ao jack
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apitrace trace projectM-jack
Did I tell you that this paragraph could be long and boring?
Well, it takes some time and some room since the apitrace dump for these 206 seconds tracks are each around 10Gbytes but it comes longer and hotter then as I then had to extract each frame of the apiptrace to a png format check them (about 40000 pics) to discard the really b0rk3n ones (which happens like IRL when the GPU and CPU decide to have a preparatory meeting before work) and then rebuild a video image track using something around, wait for it:
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'ffmpeg -framerate ${_framerate2use} -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.$(date +%s).mp4
(note that the framerate was recalculated according to the actual remaining number of frames // actual length to sync)
Then it was time to assemble with some "transparency dosing" the resulting clips with the audio, I first tried to use FlowBlade but all in all I got bored to shoot a crystal ball every time I tried to find where was the cursor and what happened to the FX I just selected or where did my pics vanished so supposed it was time for a quick break and since I recently noticed a new video NLE named "Olive" it was about time to check if it was an easier go and getter before I'd got up and went, and it was.
Then, still in Olive (version: April 2019 | Alpha | 0ac9dd9) I exported it to mp4 and mkv and here we are
If you're still here and reading you can now have a beer