9weeks

This week I decided to strip about 300ms from the beginning of the sample and only those frequencies above 10,000Hz. These would be the frequencies just at the top of the spectrum–you know the ones that almost hurt your ears. I spent quite a lot of time stretching the audio and pushing and pulling it around the spectrum. Eventually I managed to have it slide into somewhere close to the C4 range, and all of a sudden this jazz-like “melody” appeared. So i began sequencing the bare formants/partials themselves.

I’m finding that I’m working on this project, that my process is more and more about timbre and texture than melody. Although this is a step in the right direction in moving towards melodic ideas, it’s still more of a soundscape than the makings of a “song.”