Alba - a Csound tone poem

[StudioDave]

Greetings,

http://linux-sound.org/audio/alba.mp3

http://linux-sound.org/audio/alba.ogg

A deep texture study utilizing a new spectral warping module in Jean-Pierre Lemoine's AVSynthesis. Other modules used include waveguide and Moog-stye filters applied to analog-style synthesizers, all created with and powered by Csound.

All sounds were created with AVSynthesis, edited and assembled in the latest Ardour3.

NB: This piece has a very wide dynamic range, including some intentional bass rumbles. You'll need a good playback system to hear everything in it.

Enjoy. Comments welcome.

Best,

dp

[Frank Carvalho]

Wonderful! I love this sort of experimental music and sound design. It has an organic and mesmerizing quality to it. I have no experience working with Csound, but I can achieve this sort of sounds with a combination of analog synths, DX7 programming and Ensoniq transwave synthesis. I would like an introduction to Csound sometime.

/Frank

[StudioDave]

Wonderful! I love this sort of experimental music and sound design. It has an organic and mesmerizing quality to it. I have no experience working with Csound, but I can achieve this sort of sounds with a combination of analog synths, DX7 programming and Ensoniq transwave synthesis. I would like an introduction to Csound sometime.

Hi Frank,

Thanks for listening to the piece. I come from a similar world of hardware, especially the Yamaha FM synths. Also owned a Roland MKS70 that I loved for its sound quality. I do go for those kinds of sounds in some of my Csound work, a process much aided by the instrument designs in AVSynthesis. Jean-Pierre has designed some great-sounding synths and wonderful processors, I can spend another ten years exploring the handful I use now.

Btw, Jim Aikin (of Keyboard magazine) has written an excellent introduction to Csound :

http://www.amazon.com/Csound-Power-Jim- ... 1435460049

Again, thanks for lending your ears.

Best,

dp

[shimpe]

This is a very nice composition. I am currently working on an (algorithmic) composition myself, and I love some of the things I heard in your piece.
I'm currently using yoshimi and linuxsampler but I'm still fascinated with csound (and supercollider, and pure data, ...). My only fear there was the (perceived?) lack of a vast library of instruments for those environments. After hearing this, I think I will have to check out AVSynthesis to see what it is all about.

Thanks for posting and good luck with your future compositions.

[StudioDave]

This is a very nice composition. I am currently working on an (algorithmic) composition myself, and I love some of the things I heard in your piece.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. AVSynthesis includes a variety of features designed for composition, including a 64-step sequencer, a piano-roll, an analog-style sequencer, and a nice GUI for Cmask (http://www.bartetzki.de/en/software.html#cmask). I've used all at various times, this piece was limited to a chord series created in the analog sequencer.

I'm currently using yoshimi and linuxsampler but I'm still fascinated with csound (and supercollider, and pure data, ...). My only fear there was the (perceived?) lack of a vast library of instruments for those environments. After hearing this, I think I will have to check out AVSynthesis to see what it is all about.

AVS is a powerful environment for realtime 3D graphics transformation and audio performance. Its graphics engine is OpenGL, its audio functions are all handled by Csound. The UI is unorthodox, and the program has depths. No Csound programming knowledge is required - the programmer has designed sets of pre-built synthesizers and processors, all made with Csound, but the user doesn't interface with Csound directly. However, by default AVS produces a CSD - a Csound "unified" file - that can be edited with any text editor and run directly from Csound itself.

For more information about AVSynthesis go to http://avsynthesis.blogspot.com/ and follow the link to the Google docs.

I should also note that much work in this piece was done in Ardour3. The source material - the sounding tones - all comes from AVS, but the arrangement and a lot of edits took place in A3.

Thanks for posting and good luck with your future compositions.

Thanks again for listening, and please be sure to let us know how your work proceeds.

Best,

dp